On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:58:44 +0200 "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 11:53:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't have much (any) time for hardware > > tinkering these days :( > > yeah... I never did real hardware - too rich for my blood - It does tend to be a much more expensive hobby than software. :/ > but > I've written emulators, compilers, and assemblers for "hardware" > I defined myself. It can be quite a blast, though it takes a > while.... and it does kinda force you to ask: why not just do a > library without all the weird bytesin the middle? > > And practically, maybe that's right, but nothing beats the fun of > doing it all yourself. (ditto for running on bare metal - you > could do pretty much everything in userspace, but there's a part > of sticking that floppy disk in and knowing it is all you.) Yea.
