alt Hacker NewsI sometimes think that my mental model of a computer is still an Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM leads to my writing better code.
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stevesimmons • today at 7:03 AM
And mine is a Commodore Vic-20 circa 1981, with 3583 bytes of free RAM. Programmed in 6502 assembler. Can't get much closer to the CPU than that.
While I did a few 10 line programs in BASIC in high school on punch cards, when things really started was a freshman class on semiconductors. The class started with diodes and quantum mechanics, then onto transistors, then flip flops, then registers, then ALUs. Then it was on to designing/building a digital clock (which never worked right), and later designing/building/programming single board computers (6802 chip).
It was fun knowing everything about a computer. That's long gone!