From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy Programmers' Day!
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:10:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916031030.GH81320@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e69b028f0bba306576914ab0a37de42.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>
On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 8:27:54 -0700, scj at yaccman.com wrote:
>
> As a friend of mine once said to a young programmer "I've written
> boot loaders with fewer bytes than you use for variable names!"
Clearly a reference to Dave H's PDP-8 with its 16 word (24 byte) RIM
loader.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-16 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-12 21:49 Norman Wilson
2015-09-15 14:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-15 15:27 ` scj
2015-09-16 3:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2015-09-16 12:54 ` John Cowan
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2015-09-16 2:13 Doug McIlroy
2015-09-12 21:26 Dave Horsfall
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