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Barely mentioned, and the author makes us all die inside when they say "Too bad it was written for a whole different architecture and compiler so there is reall
by ianhanschen 5y ago
Barely mentioned, and the author makes us all die inside when they say "Too bad it was written for a whole different architecture and compiler so there is really no easy way for me to find out what it did."
- _kst_ 5y agoAs the hint explains, it's a combination of PDP-11 and VAX machine code, set up so that either system will run its own code and ignore the foreign code. You can extract a few ASCII strings from the data. As the hint says: "Can you guess what is printed? We knew you couldn't! :-)" The ASCII strings I found were "vax", "pdp", "str", "write", and " :-)".
- cptnapalm 5y agoSo not only did they write something baffling, they also wrote it so that it was semi-portable.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoI wonder what strange and interesting things in the computing world we’ve simply lost by forgetting and from moving on.