I agree. 21 years elapsed since I started. I cut my teeth on Z80 assembly at the age of 11 by building my own computer from stuff I could get my hands on (disc

I agree. 21 years elapsed since I started. I cut my teeth on Z80 assembly at the age of 11 by building my own computer from stuff I could get my hands on (discarded and broken RM380Z and some VIC20's for RAM) and books from the library. I feel there's too much hardware compexity and software abstraction these days, most of which is impenetrable. The complexity is a result of making the layers of abstraction fast. It takes the old feel of immediate power away. Even knocking stuff out in C is just stringing libraries together. I wish we were closer to the hardware again. I also wish the hardware was simple enough to fit in my head and was elegant.