They were quite popular in Belgium as well. I got a Philips VG8020 in '87 at age 12, a bit after my uncle got one cheap as a Philips employee. I remember spending almost every evening at his place before my parents got me my own :)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Belgium for next 3 months - Michigan after that.
Over 20 years of software development experience, from low level ASM to high level Racket & Haskell. Very broad skill set and interest with these pillars:
- C/C++ systems programming (mostly Linux, Android, RTOS/bare embedded systems).
- audio, video, graphics: systems design + signal processing algorithm design.
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Over 20 years of software development experience, from low level ASM
to high level Racket & Haskell. Very broad skill set and interest
with these pillars:
- C/C++ systems programming (mostly Linux, Android, RTOS/bare embedded systems).
- audio, video, graphics: systems design + signal processing algo design.
No, but I don't see any flaw in that design. Indeed, it seems like the case of Hoare's "obviously no deficiencies" in a system design.
I believe that the GreenArrays people, setting aside the $450 dev board, also had some notes on making cheap breadboards with their chips or something like that. I don't have a link handy, though. ;/
Well put. I have the same experience with compilers and program transformation. Many small steps, all of them simple , lead to a lot of heavy lifting if you put them all together. In some sense all those steps are "orthogonal", each taking the path into a completely new direction, ending up far away from the initial point, conceptually.
