Some of the best software devs I have ever met were some old graybeards who cut their coding teeth under the old Soviet umbrella. My theory is that the scarcit

Some of the best software devs I have ever met were some old graybeards who cut their coding teeth under the old Soviet umbrella. My theory is that the scarcity of cutting edge hardware forced folks to squeeze ever drop of capability out of the hardware that they had available to them via the software.