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I experienced the same thing with both German and Dutch while trying to learn them via Duolingo over a period of 6 months or so. After all the drilling and gamified lessons I never even started to feel like I was actually _learning_ these languages. With German I figured was just me being stupid or not grokking it properly; it's different enough from English to "feel" very foreign. But Dutch isn't that different.

I remember only two sentences from the Dutch Duolingo, maybe because they were constantly repeated:

"Ik ben een appel." (I am an apple.)

and: "Nee, je bent geen appel!" (No, you are not an apple!)

For comparison, I did self-study with Japanese in my teens and learned enough to ace the first 1.5 years of college Japanese instruction without much effort. And I remember taking Spanish classes in high school and to this day can at least fumble my way through a basic conversation.

In contrast the only use I would have for what I learned of Dutch via Duolingo would be if I came across someone having a psychotic break. You're _not_ an apple, dude.

Granted, I spent more time with both Spanish and Japanese than with any language I tried with Duolingo, but my point is simply that Duolingo just doesn't make languages "click", at least not for me and apparently not for a bunch of others either.


You're correct; slot 6 for instance is $C600. If you crashed to the system monitor you could boot a disk by entering C600G (with the 'G' standing for 'go to').

IIRC the disk controller had firmware that loaded the first 256 byte sector from disk into memory.


If you crashed to the monitor, you could hit Ctrl+B and get back to BASIC, then type IN#6 to boot the disk.


Yeah. It was neat. But it rebooted in under a second so a complete crash was no biggie.

RAM wasn't even cleared so usually no (or limited) data loss.

I thought it was PR#6 (redirect output) to boot from the disk controller in slot 6. I wonder what redirecting input would do.


That was it at the AppleSoft BASIC prompt (or IN#6). But the parent poster commented on how to do it from assembly.


There is an even quicker way from the monitor:

6 CTRL+P

Will instantly divert output to slot 6. (and boot the disk if there is hardware there)


Both worked to start a boot from the disk controller in that slot.


That's also the horse from Animal Farm right down to the exact quote and the situation.

Granted, the horse got shipped off to become glue, rather than ground down by life, but the effects are pretty much the same.


Complete silence may be unnatural but so is Fall Out Boy played so loud the lyrics can be heard a block or more away, for 24 hours a day.

Some sounds are loud enough to be impossible to block out. If police aren't interested in enforcing noise ordinances and your landlord isn't interested either because they're too busy trying not to repair the $12K a month water leak in the basement of the restaurant you live on top of, your only option is to move.


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