Post #1873252
2026-04-28 06:20 UTC
To get a CS/Software Engineer/etc. sort of degree, it should be mandatory to write at least 1 significant program that compiles for, and runs and works reasonably well on, a computer no more powerful than a stock (no upgrades, no later-addition parts) Amiga 1000 [7.1-ish MHz motorola 68k, 256kb ram]. Less powerful is fine, but, that as an upper-limit.
Just to require some understanding of resource management, and restraint.
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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club 2026-04-28 06:26
(it would also be an excuse to do something fun, make a game for old hardware or do some embedded project on a very-low-power-by-modern-standards device. But, mainly, as a filter to break the "memory is infinite and processor time is free" sort of attitude.)
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@artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay 2026-04-29 01:49
@miss_rodent i have never done programming for retrocomputing, but i still think about variable sizes because my first C experience was for a microcontroller with 2kiB of ram, does that count?