• jetsetdorito@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    sees them using Assembly

    okay this probably doesn’t make sense but I’m too lazy to prove it

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      1 year ago

      I’d love it if they made a movie on Mel. The guy who coded a magnetic drum completely by hand.

      He’d memorized a gazillion opcodes and tuned the drum to do better even before compilers had been implemented. He just didn’t trust them so he refused to use the compiler lol