This is a gem: I've read it before and I read it again. This is what I long for: simple self-contained bootstrapping systems that can be eventually used to bui

This is a gem: I've read it before and I read it again. This is what I long for: simple self-contained bootstrapping systems that can be eventually used to build anything. These days it seems that all we have is that "anything" and we'll just glue the pieces together without ever understading how everything works. That's what got me started in computers anyway: to understand how _everything_ works.