Comment by amelius
1 year ago
Machine code was only "scary" in the old days when you had to reboot your system when you made a small mistake.
1 year ago
Machine code was only "scary" in the old days when you had to reboot your system when you made a small mistake.
I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)
One of my first C programs wrote straight into the BIOS memory (1989 iirc). The machine froze and refused to reboot. We had to remove the BIOS battery to reset the BIOS. Luckily, the battery wasn't soldered to the main board.