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Yorkshireman #1: "Bah, C programmers. They don't know how good they have it!" Yorkshireman #2: "When I were t'lad, we'd have to use assembler by hand!" Yorksh
by iuguy 16y ago
Yorkshireman #1: "Bah, C programmers. They don't know how good they have it!"
Yorkshireman #2: "When I were t'lad, we'd have to use assembler by hand!"
Yorkshireman #1: "Assembler? Luxury! We never had an assembler. We had to poke the data in by hand!"
Yorkshireman #3: "Poke! Oh what I wouldn't have given for poke! We used to live int' shoebox int' middle of road, and we'd bootstrap the OS using toggle switches on't front of case."
Yorkshireman #4: "Oooh toggles! What I wouldn't have given for toggles. We used to live int' hole int' ground, and all we had to go on were scraps of hard stale bread, on which we'd punch holes and use as hollerith cards!"
Yorkshireman #2: "Holes? Holes? Bliss, oh what I wouldn't have done for holes!"
*shamelessly plagiarised from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA
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- stcredzero 16y agoI've actually programmed an 8-bit processor in binary code by repeatedly flipping 8 metal toggles and pressing a "commit" button. A roommate of mine in school actually TA'd a programming class where he saw some frustrated students take their IBM punch card stack out of the reader, shuffle it, then put it back in.
- iuguy 16y ago8 bits? You were lucky to have 8-bits. We never had 8-bits. We had to make do with t' abacus, and we never had any beads!