17 Oct
2007
17 Oct
'07
4:32 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Today's computers (beyond overclocking...
pffft.... that's not hacking)
just aren't that hackable.
You're conveniently forgetting that most of the hacking done on
8-bitters was to overclock them. That, or expand their I/O options...
which is already built-in to modern machines. So what kind of "hacking"
would you like to perform on modern machines that you cannot, but *can*
on 8-bitters?
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