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...and the EDSAC crew decided that that sort of thing was a mug's game as far back as 1949, so they added what amounts to a machine to do that for you (the Init
by stan_rogers 5y ago
...and the EDSAC crew decided that that sort of thing was a mug's game as far back as 1949, so they added what amounts to a machine to do that for you (the Initial Orders unit). (No, I don't really miss the Altair, no matter how ecstatic I was about it in high school. Toogle-booting is fun maybe twice.)