You whippersnappers may not remember there was a time when there was no commercial software, with the exception of assemblers and, if you were lucky, compilers. Somebody showed you how to punch cards or paper tape and gave you an instruction manual. (Thinking Datatron 205 or IBM 1620.)
So there were mostly no bugs except your own. There was little "OS" except a boot loader. There was no "network" and no bad guys lurking around.
Serfs not only had property rights, the Lord was even obligated to provide various services, and was obligated (under penalty of death) to defend his serfs, with his life if necessary.
Serfs, in return, owed a certain number of days of labor to the Lord, and another number to the Church. And all the rest of their time was their own, as was the fruits of their labor produced outside of those days owed.
It is true that serfdom was debt bondage, but it is important to understand that in most cases this was only
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
- Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
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You whippersnappers may not remember there was a time when there was no commercial software, with the exception of assemblers and, if you were lucky, compilers. Somebody showed you how to punch cards or paper tape and gave you an instruction manual. (Thinking Datatron 205 or IBM 1620.)
So there were mostly no bugs except your own. There was little "OS" except a boot loader. There was no "network" and no bad guys lurking around.
It was a lot of fun.
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I wrote a whole bunch of stuff in Basica, because it was already there, free, and came with a complete manual.
I discovered Assembler when I couldn't get bascia to be fast enough, and got C and Pascal along with it.
Remember PWB, Programmers workbench?
It had a macro language built in that allowed me to keep using the assembler libs I bought well into the late 90's.
The NT programming model finally broke all those tools, as well as the hard drives being over 2GB, lol.
PWB can't open a virtual file on a disk over
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So there were mostly no bugs except your own.
Grandpa, you're snoring, wouldn't you be more comfortable napping in bed?
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No, the rental payment hasn't gone through, so the bed dematerialised. But hey, rent everything own nothing, right?
Didn't we used to call people who weren't allowed to own things slaves and serfs?
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Serfs not only had property rights, the Lord was even obligated to provide various services, and was obligated (under penalty of death) to defend his serfs, with his life if necessary.
Serfs, in return, owed a certain number of days of labor to the Lord, and another number to the Church. And all the rest of their time was their own, as was the fruits of their labor produced outside of those days owed.
It is true that serfdom was debt bondage, but it is important to understand that in most cases this was only