On 11/01/17 20:29, Lars wrote: > This very question was asked many years ago, maybe by myself, when I was > first learning FPC. > > We got in to discussions about the origin of the universe itself, and > Florian K. ended up saying something about physical bit switches being > used to program a system which has no software on it yet... > > But I could be distorting the discussion slightly ;-) > > If I could find the old posts from maybe 2004-2006 era I would.. but I'm > too lazy to look in the archives. Basically the meaning of life is: "if > there is no software yet installed on the circuit board and you have no > other options, just use some physical bit switches to program the system > with your bare hands"... But yes it was turbo pascal that was used.
ICSMBIDNWT (I Could Stop Myself But I Did Not Want To) https://xkcd.com/378/ -L. _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
