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Subject: Re: life extension of old computers thanks to opensource Contiki
From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Date: 06 Feb 2006 20:52:14 GMT
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In comp.sys.atari.8bit zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote:
<snip>
> One such factor is the unavailability in this day
> and age of well-documented home computers of the style my generation
> enjoyed - Acorn BBC, Commodore VIC-20, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and so
> on. Modern personal computers are black boxes designed to run
> shrinkwrapped software. They are shipped without programming tools and
> with no technical documentation whatsoever.

Maybe _that's_ why I like Linux so much.  Ships with GCC & friends, standard
;)

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