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   hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 12:23:19 JST hankg
   My first apps pushing real memory requirements, "hundreds of KB to MB", were on Unix systems. The second was Windows 95. The peculiarities of PC memory issues were just running config tools to get Tie Fighter running. Seeing it spelled out so painfully makes me glad I missed all that. #history #ComputerHistory #programming #RetroComputing
   From 0 to 1 MB in DOS
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     hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 23:04:41 JST hankg

     • goatsarah
     @goatsarah My first programming experience ever was 6502 as well, BASIC not assembly though. I never got too fancy with the graphics or memory requirements. Even my first structured programming on the Mac and PC using Pascal and then C were small enough programs to make worrying about all that memory segmentation
     stuff on either platform, albeit far less complicated on 1980s Mac. As I think of trying retro computing challenges I may end up experiencing it eventually.
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     hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:00:11 JST hankg

     • goatsarah
     @goatsarah Fascinating history of those times and how scrappy everything was. Although I was an Apple not Commodore user back then I still read all of Brian Bagnall's books on the soup to nuts history of the company and its products.