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by rootshelled
2551 days ago
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https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page There, all for free on the web no need to go back to school. As for the type of work; most of it is writing the 1000th driver, making sure some mainframe doesn't keel over on a new version. Also even the lower level stuff often escape to higher level languages after initial setup. You'd still be writing code to make the hardware do stuff, just more work to achieve the same. So it might not be that exciting after a while. |
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Oh, I don't doubt that self teaching is an option, I've just imagined this particular subfield would place more weight on a degree given that it probably requires more actual CS knowledge
> You'd still be writing code to make the hardware do stuff, just more work to achieve the same. So it might not be that exciting after a while.
Unfortunately I fear you may be right on this. It's a shame I lose interest in my hobbies as soon as I start doing them as work