Post #2350588
2026-02-25 07:14 UTC
And I was sub-contracted to do that. It was about a six month long project. I wrote an entire windowing system on top of DOS to use VGA to show the display.
(I'm a good fucking programmer, and that's not the only time I've written a graphical UI from scratch.)
And. A comical note: about six weeks before the project was due, my hard drive died. And. My backup drive died.
All I had were some two-month old printouts.
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 07:16
So, for my juniors, when I tell you "typing is not the bottleneck", I know what I'm fucking talking about. It took me a couple of weeks to re-create 4 months worth of work. If I had to bet, I'd bet my second edition was *better* than the edition I lost. So we come down to the day, and I am ready.