Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Memories of high school

We had a SWTP box that one of the math teachers bought. It was so much fun. Lots of toggle switches to manipulate just to get it to boot.

I really liked writing Assembly code...

ASSEMBLER is a language. Any language that can take a half-dozen keystrokes and compile it down to one byte of code is all right in my books. Though for the REAL programmer, assembler is a waste of time. Why use a compiler when you can code directly into memory through a front panel.

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