"How many people knew the hacking that went into making Atari 2600 games actually work? And it's pretty amazing they even did work, if you look at the architecture of that thing." Exactly. And how many of today's programmers would be able to effectively program even that relatively simple hardware? On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola@gmail.com> wrote:
"Devil's advocate... so what? Storage is basically free now."
Here's so what: It's like Scotty said "The *more* they overthink the *plumbing*, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
where an operating system requires billions of bytes of RAM just to boot.
Devil's advocate... so what? Storage is basically free now.