From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Student views on Ada
Date: 23 Sep 1994 13:15:29 GMT
Date: 1994-09-23T13:15:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35ukdh$185r@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35s3lc$69h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <35s3lc$69h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
writes:
|> Marin, front panel lights are for sissies! The first time I programmed
|> an Incoterm terminal, I had to enter a boot loader from the keyboard
|> one hex digit at a time, completely blind with no feedback of any kind
|> at all. It took 600 keypresses to enter it. Now that's REAL programming :-)
Robert, hex digits are for sissies! I once programmed a PC with Cassette
Basic. It made assembly language, with its symbolic labels, seem
high-level. Now that's REAL programming! :-)
(Unfortunately, since the PC did not have a cassette player attached, I
was unable to save the program.)
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1994-09-22 14:17 ` Student views on Ada Robert Dewar
1994-09-23 10:08 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-23 13:15 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1994-09-23 15:13 ` David Weller
1994-09-23 15:56 CONDIC
1994-09-24 0:52 ` Bob Kitzberger
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1994-09-07 14:01 Prof_Weber-Wulff
1994-09-17 11:46 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-19 15:29 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-22 15:32 ` Laurent Gasser
1994-09-24 19:04 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-25 17:13 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-04 11:48 ` Fred McCall
1994-10-05 16:17 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-21 7:52 ` Prof Weber-Wulff
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