| ▲ | dhosek 7 hours ago | |
I sometimes think that my mental model of a computer is still an Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM leads to my writing better code. | ||
| ▲ | WalterBright 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
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! | ||
| ▲ | stevesimmons 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
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. | ||