What about breadboarding ?
Seriously, many of you aren’t that ancient, but I remember the Univac 1004.
It had a big removable board full of holes and plug-in wires, about a yard
by a yard, which people used to write its programs: these were done just
like old telephone switchboard operators did, by plugging wires between
holes. My memory is gone, but I believe that the board gave you about 961
programming steps. Well, sometimes people had programs that were bigger than
what the board allowed us to write, so it wasn’t uncommon to go accross the
street to the local equivalent of Radio Shack, buy a few transistors and
diodes, and you would see those boards with this maze of components hanging
out of them: these were program extensions, virtual memory if you will.
So, yes, in those days soldering irons could be called programming tools!
Alberto.
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From: Art Baker [mailto:xxxxx@nfr.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:21 PM
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Actually, the only REAL programming language is hot solder…
-Art
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Gary Little
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:35 AM
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Subject: [ntdev] Re: 3rd party Device driver development tool or pure
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Screw HOLs! Dump assembly! Bypass all that regurgitation and tom-foolery
and write directly in machine code and do it RIGHT!!!
Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:35 AM
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Why are you assuming it hasn’t been tried? If memory serves, I believe the
original NeXt cube was programmed entirely in PostScript. 
-Art
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Thomas F. Divine
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wdm driver development…Which is the best???
Why has no one considered using the Adobe PostScript (c) language for driver
development?
Thos
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:52 AM
Subject: [ntdev] Re: 3rd party Device driver development tool or pure wdm
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> Well, if you want to do a tiny bit of work, you can write it like this:
>
> 1 A Load Add 4 Multiply Print Newline
>
> You can, it’s just as good Forth. A tiny bit additional work, you can make
> Add, Multiply and Print infix and say for example
>
> Print 1 Add Dereference A Multiply 4 Newline
>
> And then you can even put in parentheses to look saner, if that’s what you
> call “sane”. The point is, the language is pliable, if you don’t like the
> syntax, invent your own, and implement it, the language makes it very
easy.
> But somehow I don’t think that “%d\n” is any saner than anything else. But
> hey, opinions vary!
>
> Alberto.
>
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