There is almost a (probably misleading) glimmer of “i could have done that”, because the story is so human, he really did have to learn assembly by printing A a

There is almost a (probably misleading) glimmer of “i could have done that”, because the story is so human, he really did have to learn assembly by printing A and Bs, he didn’t have a grand design and just smash out an OS in vim and upload it! This is real agile programming.