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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (thelemmy.club)
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Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[+] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Admittedly, the last time I touched real Assembly was 20 years ago.

    There's a couple Zachtronics games, TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O, both that use a limited form of Assembly, that are probably filling in the gaps in my memory.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    with the hell that is x86 assembly

    I soooo wish IBM had gone with the Motorola 68000 family instead of the Intel 8086 family of chips for the PC. It had a far, far nicer instruction set.

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