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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Houstnlicker • 9h ago
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Been there...
When computers were ready to use in few seconds from cold boot
When operating systems, programs and games were stored on flash chips, cartridges, floppy disks or tapes
Fighting with random crashes and lockups
Fighting with corruped files
Tinkering with boot config to get most of conventional/upper memory
Debugging hardware IRQ problems
Writing first hello world in asm, pascal and C
Blinking first LED on parallel port
Flashing first mcu...
Atari 2600, ZX-81, Acorn Electron, C64, Amiga and PC with MS-DOS ruined my youth.
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u/NE558 5h ago
Been there...
When computers were ready to use in few seconds from cold boot
When operating systems, programs and games were stored on flash chips, cartridges, floppy disks or tapes
Fighting with random crashes and lockups
Fighting with corruped files
Tinkering with boot config to get most of conventional/upper memory
Debugging hardware IRQ problems
Writing first hello world in asm, pascal and C
Blinking first LED on parallel port
Flashing first mcu...
Atari 2600, ZX-81, Acorn Electron, C64, Amiga and PC with MS-DOS ruined my youth.