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>It totals 340 pages of fan-fold tractor feed No one ever accused assembly of being space efficient when printed out.

• JdeBP 3y ago
  My printout fits in and has sat rolled up in a Furniss of Cornwall biscuit tin for many years. (-:
• lproven 3y ago
  True... But the thing is, with determination, in 1000 years, that printout might be legible, with great care and delicacy. Whereas there probably isn't a single digital medium in the world that will be. (All right, punch cards or paper tape, but both require very specific skills, rather than just being able to read an alphabet with your bare eyes.) Compactness is sometimes overrated.
  • pavlov 3y ago
    The wasted horizontal space on assembly printouts isn’t really a problem either. After the nuclear apocalypse, when industrial paper is made no more, monks will carefully cut out the assembly code lines and paste them into a vellum-wrapped book while reusing the remaining paper scraps. (They’ll also make beautiful ink drawings of dragons in the book margins. “Tome of Dragon64”, a mysterious spell book from pre-doom times.)
    • lproven 3y ago
      A Canticle for Mettoy sort of thing? Very nice. I approve.