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Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

From the December 1975 issue of BYTE Magazine

What This Country Needs
Is a Good 8-Bit
High Level Language
What This Country Needs Is a Good 8-Bit High Level Language
What This Country Needs Is a Good 8-Bit High Level Language
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Only Ohm
@only_ohm@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@thomasfuchs Just to check I've understood: one of the defining features that makes a language "high-level" is that its specification makes no reference to how many bits the CPU registers have, right?

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allison
@aparrish@friend.camp replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@thomasfuchs @clive remains true honestly

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Clive Thompson
@clive@saturation.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@thomasfuchs I want that on a T-shirt now

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Kiëd Llaentenn
@unlkfp@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@thomasfuchs #uxn ftw

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Gabriel Pettier
@tshirtman@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@thomasfuchs do we have one yet?

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Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
Old-timey illustration of a 19th century kitchen, there's a man throwing things over yelling "11000111" at a woman who is washing clothes (?), she answers "You fool — that's an unimplemented op code!"

For some reason both look happy
Old-timey illustration of a 19th century kitchen, there's a man throwing things over yelling "11000111" at a woman who is washing clothes (?), she answers "You fool — that's an unimplemented op code!" For some reason both look happy
Old-timey illustration of a 19th century kitchen, there's a man throwing things over yelling "11000111" at a woman who is washing clothes (?), she answers "You fool — that's an unimplemented op code!" For some reason both look happy
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Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

See https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-12/page/n42/mode/2up for the full ad

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Dani (:cxx: Antifascista)
@DanielaKEngert@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@thomasfuchs
Frederico Faggin was more like: This opcode may seem unimplemented. In fact, it's just a little bit unconventional or unfamiliar.

Those opcodes were *so* useful for fast and compact Z80 code.

We did dirty tricks with the 68k as well 😂

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Dani (:cxx: Antifascista)
@DanielaKEngert@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

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