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In my personal playbook, design wins, structure wins, and tool wins *always* trump high-performance hardware wins...

I'm coming from the very early days (ever heard of the Kim-1 single board computer?) when hardware was so limited, we had to optimize for program memory space. It was all ASM (hand-assembled) and unbelievably compact (chess programs in 1.2k of RAM?)...

I own an M1 Macbook Air now, and find it alarming that contemporary coding practices big *it* down!😳
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Bourbonic Plague 2y ago

I don’t go quite that far back. I started on a Timex Sinclair in the ‘80s.

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Duncan Cary Palmer 2y ago

Had a couple of those too! Built the Sinclair kit!😆 Thanks for the memories!🫂

I wrote an Othello program for that little gem...😜😆