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[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing it was more like "Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers"

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And the book had all the answers.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

💯 came here to say that.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.

I rebooted a lot.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I also learned C on the Amiga. I loved SAS C. I also came across C++ first on the Amiga when it was just a pre processor for C. I really loved that machine but it was the community that was special

[–] GJdan@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn't have anything useful. Let's try this Google thing.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Altavista. Back when keywords still meant something.