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Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all
38 0 ReplyI'm guessing it was more like "Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers"
10 0 ReplyAnd the book had all the answers.
5 0 ReplyIt was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.
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Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.
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💯 came here to say that.
4 0 ReplyOkay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn't have anything useful. Let's try this Google thing.
2 0 ReplyAltavista. Back when keywords still meant something.
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I learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.
I rebooted a lot.
2 0 ReplyI also learned C on the Amiga. I loved SAS C. I also came across C++ first on the Amiga when it was just a pre processor for C. I really loved that machine but it was the community that was special
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