On 2020-05-01 06:09 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2020-05-01 2:45 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
I wonder if the developers had competitions on who could write the
shortest working loader program.
They still do. My friend Josh (also in the GTA) recently bootstrapped
the Altair in 12 bytes. Bill Gates did it in 17. Details (plus Josh
showing off his Altair, Imsai and Altair 680):
https://just8bits.blogspot.com/2017/03/doing-it-in-less-than-bill-gates.html
I used to have an IMSAI 8080. IIRC, Byte magazine used to have contests
to do some task in the fewest Bytes.
BTW, I used to have a M35 ASR Teletype, which was a lot better machine
than the M33. I also started my career as a bench tech overhauling
Teletypes.
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