26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
11:40 a.m.
something other than BASIC or FOCAL that they had in
ROM). I really
miss that mentality (I still believe every hacker needs to write his
own operating system as a rite of passage).
Oh well, I'm not a hacker, then... I've never written an OS, or a
language interpretter/compiler, or anything even reasonably complicated...
I have wire-wrapped my own processor, though (I don't mean making a board
using a comercial microprocessor, although I've doen that too, I mean
wiring up gates and flip-flops to make a very special-purpose processor).
-tony