[GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?
James Knott
james.knott at jknott.net
Fri May 1 18:54:51 EDT 2020
On 2020-05-01 06:09 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> On 2020-05-01 2:45 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if the developers had competitions on who could write the
>> shortest working loader program.
>
> They still do. My friend Josh (also in the GTA) recently bootstrapped
> the Altair in 12 bytes. Bill Gates did it in 17. Details (plus Josh
> showing off his Altair, Imsai and Altair 680):
> https://just8bits.blogspot.com/2017/03/doing-it-in-less-than-bill-gates.html
>
>
I used to have an IMSAI 8080. IIRC, Byte magazine used to have contests
to do some task in the fewest Bytes.
BTW, I used to have a M35 ASR Teletype, which was a lot better machine
than the M33. I also started my career as a bench tech overhauling
Teletypes.
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