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> If you as a coding genius had to develop a program without any internet access, how far would you get? As an engineering student transferred to applied math in the early 1980s I was able (with no real substantial internet access, literally getting floppy discs by mail, etc) to write an OS, an original commercial event tracking system for fleet management of mining vehicles, a real time marine seismic capture, storage, view and analysis system (basic PC, real time OS (that a friend wrote), Window Manager, dedicated hardware, lots of assembler, signal processing, etc). And a whole lot more. (Bit of work on a sheep shearing robot, lot of early GIS mapping routines) (Oh, some interesting stuff for CAYLEY/MAGMA that has recently been used to break quantuum encryption candidates .. odd just how long some fundementals last) It seemed normal at the time to be able to do this, both a circle of friends and myself had a ball building stuff - much of it based on books, talking in person to others, and just diving in and playing about. It's perhaps easier to get by without AI and real time always connected internet than you seem to think. |