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I learned C in the late 80's from K&R 2nd edition and an Amiga-specific book I no longer remember exactly, back in middle school. I learned sooo much from books

I learned C in the late 80's from K&R 2nd edition and an Amiga-specific book I no longer remember exactly, back in middle school. I learned sooo much from books back then and just playing around on my own. There's so much more to learn now, but it's also so much easier to find information...

icedchai 3y ago
I found the other book: https://www.amazon.com/Amiga-Advanced-Programmers-Abacus-Books/dp/1557550468 https://www.amazon.com/Amiga-Advanced-Programmers-Abacus-Boo...
- dekhn 3y ago
  my college roommate freshman year (1991) had an amiga and we argued about whether amigas were better than PCs. At the time, his amiga definitely was better than my PC. IIRC I bought a $25 C compiler, http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm but it only had a stack size of 6 function calls(!)
  - icedchai 3y ago
    1991 was basically peak Amiga! Soon after that, 386's with SVGA and Sound Blaster cards started to become pretty cheap. I gave up on the Amiga around 1994, got a 486, and ran Slackware Linux.
    - wyclif 3y ago
      Almost the same trajectory for me, except BASIC first then C and K&R on an Amiga. Also switched to PCs in 1994 and installed Linux.
      - icedchai 3y ago
        Yes, I was also very into BASIC for a while! First AppleSoft on my Apple IIe, then AmigaBasic. I also played around with some basic compilers before moving to Lattice C (then it became SAS C.)
    - dekhn 3y ago
      Yep. In 91 I had a 286 which couldn't do multitasking or interesting graphics. Compared to the amiga, which had multitasking, high quality graphics, and genlock... By 94 I had a 486/66 with 4MB RAM running TAMU Linux (and Windows 3.1 I guess) basically so I had access to g++ and emacs (having no money for "Turbo C++" on Windows). It was too slow, so I upgraded the RAM (spending close to $1K upgrading to the max, 32MB). Much of my career rests on what I learned about Linux on that machine.

icedchai 3y ago

I found the other book: https://www.amazon.com/Amiga-Advanced-Programmers-Abacus-Books/dp/1557550468 https://www.amazon.com/Amiga-Advanced-Programmers-Abacus-Boo...

dekhn 3y ago
my college roommate freshman year (1991) had an amiga and we argued about whether amigas were better than PCs. At the time, his amiga definitely was better than my PC. IIRC I bought a $25 C compiler, http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm but it only had a stack size of 6 function calls(!)
- icedchai 3y ago
  1991 was basically peak Amiga! Soon after that, 386's with SVGA and Sound Blaster cards started to become pretty cheap. I gave up on the Amiga around 1994, got a 486, and ran Slackware Linux.
  - wyclif 3y ago
    Almost the same trajectory for me, except BASIC first then C and K&R on an Amiga. Also switched to PCs in 1994 and installed Linux.
    - icedchai 3y ago
      Yes, I was also very into BASIC for a while! First AppleSoft on my Apple IIe, then AmigaBasic. I also played around with some basic compilers before moving to Lattice C (then it became SAS C.)
  - dekhn 3y ago
    Yep. In 91 I had a 286 which couldn't do multitasking or interesting graphics. Compared to the amiga, which had multitasking, high quality graphics, and genlock... By 94 I had a 486/66 with 4MB RAM running TAMU Linux (and Windows 3.1 I guess) basically so I had access to g++ and emacs (having no money for "Turbo C++" on Windows). It was too slow, so I upgraded the RAM (spending close to $1K upgrading to the max, 32MB). Much of my career rests on what I learned about Linux on that machine.