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The Confession

Farming should be good after all that hype BS being dumped on the ground about this project.

They dumpster dived PDP-10 assembly code that was likely used educate them how to build an 8080 emulator to write BASIC for the 8080.
Then he and his Lakeside pals are brought on to work on a payroll program in COBOL.

Like I said, the rich idiots used COBOL.

You obviously were much too nice and didn't charge ridiculous fees for common business practice functions.

That's on you. Just a second, the butler is bringing me my smoking jacket.

Ask your friendly AI to OCR it for you.

Capable for hobbies but serious programmers were using ASM and serious business ran COBOL.
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The Altair was slow, the MS BASIC implementation was slow, the BASIC algorithms were slow. If you wanted anything close to real time response to external hardware, it needed to coded in ASM and them maybe called in BASIC.

The filthy rich idiots ran COBOL.

I programmed in ASM on my DIY 8080 machine. BASIC rots the brain.
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R.I.P.

Kids today. Get off my lawn.

I miss them.

What a fool she was.

Their deaths helped to end the war. They did have the final say.

They earned it.

Yes, it takes time off your life but those will be the bad years, you won't miss them anyway.