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cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing · 2 months ago

'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years

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'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years

www.pcgamer.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing · 2 months ago
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Coding onto paper and punch cards.
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    I didn’t realize assembly had named variables.

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      Assembly has variables. You can label locations in memory, then move them onto registers in order to perform operations.

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