Man, I loved the whole process of learning about IRQ's address spaces, I/O, North and South bridge, DMA...
I didn't know a lick of programming, but just knowing how to trace the 0's and 1's through the hardware greatly boosted my confidence in interacting with the computer.
No matter what program or language got put in front of me, I knew that something on a disk or in memory, or in some storage somewhere was telling the computer to do it.
Then I set out to understand the people who wrote those things and what they set out to do.
Then I realized I probably hated most of you. Because you went out of the way to make having my computer do what I wanted harder.
I'm somewhat reluctant to encourage youngsters down the path. I'm not sure it's the healthiest occupation.
I didn't know a lick of programming, but just knowing how to trace the 0's and 1's through the hardware greatly boosted my confidence in interacting with the computer.
No matter what program or language got put in front of me, I knew that something on a disk or in memory, or in some storage somewhere was telling the computer to do it.
Then I set out to understand the people who wrote those things and what they set out to do.
Then I realized I probably hated most of you. Because you went out of the way to make having my computer do what I wanted harder.
I'm somewhat reluctant to encourage youngsters down the path. I'm not sure it's the healthiest occupation.