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by voltagex_ 4384 days ago
Looking at this project, I feel very very very dumb. I've been using computers for 2 decades and programming for 1 and I can't even imagine doing something like this!
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Reading this comment made me very very sad. I've been programming computers for over 3 decades, and this is how we started off in my day. The "MyComputerification" of IT education during the 90's has a lot to answer for...
Don't worry, I'm currently writing a FAT32 reader from scratch and slowly making my way through a Peter Norton assembly tutorial from the 80s...

My day job, on the other hand is nearly all web dev and admin work.