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It's kind of a fun shibboleth for those of us that hacked on the systems back in the day. The ROM used ][ instead of II and we used that string when we discusse
by joezydeco 4y ago
It's kind of a fun shibboleth for those of us that hacked on the systems back in the day. The ROM used ][ instead of II and we used that string when we discussed the computer online. I still type it that way just out of pride.
It's kind of like C64 hackers that say KERNAL instead of "kernel" since that's what Commodore docs called it.
- dhosek 4y agoAnd for added fun, although ] and [ were in the ASCII subset that the Apple ][ used, they were not on the keyboard. I remember writing a program in AppleSoft Basic that was a very limited word processor that used the ctrl key as shift and displayed uppercase using inverse (which was a bad choice because then the return key gave M as its output rather than a new line), and finding that I could get half the logo through the esc key.
- balls187 4y ago> those of us that hacked on the systems back in the day. Thanks for letting us stand on your shoulders :)