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• Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
• To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.
• Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data…
• You probably don't have much of a choice.
• The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans…
• In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to…
• Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
• NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's…
• Blend is great for designers because it implements a lot of sophisticated behaviours, but for what I like to do, hand coding…
• I started out with machine code and assembly language.
• Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special…
• Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display…

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