On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> Cobol? Eeee, when I were a lad, it were Assembler or noothin'. Youngsters
> today, don't know they're born...
BTW, I'll concede that Cobol has it's place even today.Not for me, though!
Assembler? Luxury! Sheer Luxury.
Binary via the front-panel switches if you don't mind.
Fortunately only the emergency bootloader.
Mostly we used bootable 8" floppy disks.
Thank goodness for memory sticks, eh? :-)
G.
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