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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
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Subject: Re: Student views on Ada
Date: 23 Sep 1994 13:15:29 GMT
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In article <35s3lc$69h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
writes: 

|> Marin, front panel lights are for sissies! The first time I programmed
|> an Incoterm terminal, I had to enter a boot loader from the keyboard
|> one hex digit at a time, completely blind with no feedback of any kind
|> at all. It took 600 keypresses to enter it. Now that's REAL programming :-)

Robert, hex digits are for sissies!  I once programmed a PC with Cassette
Basic.  It made assembly language, with its symbolic labels, seem
high-level.  Now that's REAL programming! :-)

(Unfortunately, since the PC did not have a cassette player attached, I
was unable to save the program.)

--
Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com