On 02/22/2013 11:53 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Ha! Punched cards! We would have thanked God for
punched cards! The Data General Nova in the engineering
lab at FAU only had an ASR-33 tty with a paper
tape attachment :-).
You have no idea how happy I am that I never needed to mess with that
stuff. Still, the point is well-made: most programmers don't know how
to optimize code because they've always considered RAM to be an endless
resource.