[SavantIdiot]

> Just imagine coding without access to StackOverflow.

That was the beginning of my career in the PC industry!

C compilers for PCs were in their infancy, so all of the code I was writing was x86 assembly using MASM 6 on MS-DOS 5.2 (hello TSRs and config.sys).

I forget the company, but some tech house published a giant 500 page PC encyclopedia every year that listed all of the x86 CPU instructions, IO ports, interrupts, DOS interrupts, etc. The last issue I had was white with pink lines on it and weighed about 3 kilos! Then the internet showed up and that all went away.

Well, except the mentors. Mentors will always be a step-function way to learn new material.