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by metric10 4198 days ago
That seemed odd to me as well. On the other hand, he was programming in QBASIC and text mode (from what I saw in the screen shots). Nothing he did probably required a lot of memory, and since he never had access to new software, it was probably never an issue. So it's understandable. Unfortunately he wasn't left with a copy of Turbo C++ (or TASM) and a good programming book.