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Jerry Coffin

Started programming on a Control Data mainframe in FORTRAN IV, back when that was still a new thing. Was apparently quite masochistic, because I kept programming anyway. For that matter, I still do...



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51 What was the first programming book Jun 2 '16
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6 Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0 Dec 12 '17
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5 Examples of operating systems using hardware task switching of x86 CPUs Mar 23 '19
5 Executable ASCII files before x86? Sep 7 '17
3 Why didn't the 8086 use linear addressing? Jul 14 '18
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