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Sometimes older technology is easier to develop for, mostly because there's more documentation, more stack overflow discussions, better understanding of quirks,
by gwbas1c 5y ago
Sometimes older technology is easier to develop for, mostly because there's more documentation, more stack overflow discussions, better understanding of quirks, ect.
- the_only_law 5y agoI used to have an old 5150 (recently sold, as it’s not my particular retro niche). The source code for the BIOS was listed in the manual for the machine. I was mildly and pleasantly surprised. I suppose a modern equivalent would be the firmware source code for your motherboard being downloadable from the vendor. I guess there’s edk2, but I’d be content never to touch that again.
- jandrese 5y agoA lot of this is complexity. The underlying systems are so complex that it is not really practical to try to explain them to the end user. But another part of this is political. Some parts are hidden on purpose to support features like DRM or to preserve a vendor's trade secrets.