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All the people romanticizing the good all days need to write CAD/CAM software in Fortran IV on an IBM 360 with nothing but the five thousand opaque IBM reference binders and a couple of college texts on computer graphics. To a deadline.

The real "joy" was posting a problem on the comp.lang.c and praying Dan Bernstein or Henry Spencer was online and would answer sometime in the next day or so ...




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