[Info-vax] System Programming versus Application Programming

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sat Feb 8 20:47:20 EST 2014


Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>Your training here will be complete when you can avoid even raising an 
>eyebrow when somebody tells you that all systems and all I/O devices 
>have truly compatible ABIs, and that these boards and these devices 
>will never vary in characteristics or timing or features or status 
>codes.  Only when you can remain stoic, will you truly understand the 
>quicksand computing is built on.

That's what MSCP was for!
--scott
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