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Back in 1985 when I started I had the original "The C Programming Language", a book from IBM with the various interrupts to access system resources and the "Pin
by chrisbennet 6y ago
Back in 1985 when I started I had the original "The C Programming Language", a book from IBM with the various interrupts to access system resources and the "Pink Shirt" book (be Peter Norton).
I once wrote a program in assembler that was 7 bytes long (the executable was 7 bytes) to reset the graphics card.
It was great time to be a "programmer" in those days because you got to try so many different things instead of just cutting and pasting something from the internet. A lot of those things failed and you learn a lot from your failures.