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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Monday 14 Nov 2011 16:36 : \____
> On 14/11/2011 11:16, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Phil Da Lick! wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> Those were the days. Although I enjoy my programming immensely now
>>> there's nothing quite like getting right down into the nitty gritty of
>>> the machine like I did back in my 64 and Amiga days. That was proper
>>> programming!
>>
>> You can still do it, man. Pick a kernel module and have at it! :-)
>>
>
> Something special was lost when the programmer was [quite rightly]
> virtualised away from direct aceess to the hardware. The top 64 and
> Amiga coders did some amazing stuff hitting that hardware direct and
> self modifying their code :)
You can get "open hardware" boards, still.
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~~ Best of wishes
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