> Note that these types of old microprocessors haven't completely gone > away. If you ever hated this kind of work don't get into embedded > systems design. You deal with dinky microprocessors and > microcontrollers in that field all the time, with the same kind of > stupid limitations you talk about and with hardware that you make > yourself so you're not always sure it's actually too stable in and of > itself.
To this day, the magic they were able to do with those 'dinky' microprocessors blows my mind (remember Choplifter?). You don't see the same kind of wizardry nowadays. PDAs have far far more power than an 8-bit 6502 + 64KB RAM + 280x192 display (Apple ][), but I don't see the same kind of creativity and innovation that was present in the 'good old days' of 8-bit computing. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
