Story: The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Then, if You Just Have One and Zeros, You Have to Figure Out What's Going on There.
For the naked many. We just had some code that had been written in assembly language and then compiled down to bits. An we only had the bits, so we have to make some assumptions about what's going on there. A lot of this stuff was stored in a basica eprims, things that are the equivalent of to day's flash memory. And so you had to figur what was going on there. As well as extracting the bit patterns and then mutating the mels at big indian or little india and things like that. It's kind of thing that you could do, i could do, but we wouldn't be very fast at it, probably.
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