[ubuntu-uk] Anyone here into low-level stuff?

[Jim Kissel]

James Grabham wrote:
> OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
> books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there.  I
> started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
> and It's really interesting, Im learning about octal and hex, and other
> maths stuff as well.  Id always though low-level stuff would be really
> boring...  guess I was wrong.
> 

Ah! front-panel switches and status lights, Iloaders in octal, PDP-8's
Then they started using  bit slice 2900 series and you needed $8,000 
worth of scope just to see the info on a single rail!  I gave it all up 
when they quit usisng 7400 series TTL only to have a small re-match in 
the mid-80's with some 68k device drivers.

I remember well...fall back to sleep.....

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