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points by bcvvvy 18 hours ago | 0 comments

As someone in the "some of you older programmers may have used Z80 assembly" territory, I find that hilarious.

[–] ourmandave 18 hours ago

Oh no you don't! You're starting a "back in my day..." thread, that's like saying "Beetlejuice!" three times.

Z80 Assembly! Fortran! ENIAC cables!

And the ghost of Alan Turing shows up.

[–] bcvvvy 18 hours ago

Hey I assembled that code on paper on my home made computer and I was in Alan Turing's office the other day!

(not even joking)

[–] hangrybear666 16 hours ago

Much respect indeed and I admire that effort! All I do now is have the LLM generate SVG images of its implementation planfiles for me to review a pretty image because it's become too advanced for me to parse the markdown in appropriate time.

[–] bcvvvy 14 hours ago

At least you haven’t spent two weeks in AI strategy meetings with people who have used AI to come up with a strategy for AI to implement because if we don’t, our single competitor will win the AI arms race.

Our products are both mature, entirely finished, fully deterministic and the last attempt at this using the same approach just burned all the money that was spent instead of generating any new revenue.

[–] vardump 16 hours ago

Heresy! 6502/6510 was the only true CPU back then!

(In other words, my daddy bought me a C64 in the eighties. ;-))

[–] jacquesm 12 hours ago

The 6809 was by far the better CPU, but it was more pricey and the 6502 had some absolutely amazing software written for it (Notably: BBC Basic, Elite).

[–] bcvvvy 12 hours ago

Definitely the better CPU. You could write position independent code on it for a start.

[–] jacquesm 12 hours ago

That, the MUL instruction, hardware support for multi-tasking. Atomics.

[–] chrisweekly 15 hours ago

Get off my lawn! I was playing Larn on my dad's VT100 long before the C64 was released.

[–] drjasonharrison 14 hours ago

You couldn't play anything on a VT100 except "please mainframe run this program"

That's like saying you played games on your dad's Philips G8.

[–] chrisweekly 11 hours ago

Your dismissive assertion is rude and inaccurate.

Larn was a text-based RPG that was in fact easily run as a networked game over a modem to a server at GenRad where my dad worked. Details escape me (it was over 40 years ago, I was like 12 years old) but these basics are factual.

[–] bcvvvy 13 hours ago

Honestly I bought a 6502 (BBC Micro) after I got tired of the Z80.