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> I have the original 8080 manual in front of me In case anyone's wondering what makes HN so damn great
by tomcam 1mo ago
> I have the original 8080 manual in front of me
In case anyone's wondering what makes HN so damn great
- dmd 1mo agoI've still got my well-thumbed https://archive.org/details/c64-programmer-ref https://archive.org/details/c64-programmer-ref I spent pretty much all of the 1988-9 school year (I was 10) inhaling it.
- kstrauser 1mo agoThat’s the greatest manual I’ve ever touched. It taught me a huge chunk of what I know about hardware, from bitmap graphics to assembler and addressing modes, to IO. I knew that if you wanted to make your BASIC programs go faster, you wrote parts of them in assembly. Fortunately no one bothered to tell me that this was supposed to be harder so I charged ahead, soaking it up like a sponge. Seriously, it was fantastic.