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It's not a rumor! > "Part of my nostalgia about this machine is this was the last machine where I wrote a very high percentage of the code in the product. I di
by russellbeattie 4y ago
It's not a rumor!
> "Part of my nostalgia about this machine is this was the last machine where I wrote a very high percentage of the code in the product. I did all the design and debugging along with Jey." - billg in an interview with the National Museum of American History.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc35 https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc35
- tinco 4y agoNot to be all megalomanic.. but I wonder what will be the last machine I personally wrote code for. Code we write nowadays is mostly targeted at virtual machines, or even if it's low level at some idealised hardware (apparently based on the PDP-11?). Or maybe we'll go back to be coding for machine learning accelerators or whatever lies in the future that constrains us to specific optimised hardware.
- philistine 4y agoYou’ll end up like Firefly, where the trash collector was running Windows 98. Or was it ME?