[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Dave Froble]

On 9/7/2023 8:38 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-09-06, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> But plenty of youngsters play with Raspberry Pis - they don't even come
>> with a box!
>>
>
> Yes, but what are they doing with them ?
>
> Quite a bit of the time it appears to be doing clever things with
> user-mode applications that already exist.
>
> At one end, I can write bare-metal startup code and hence understand
> how computers work when you have no software layers between you and the
> hardware.
>
> At the other end, I can write business and webserver applications.
>
> I can also do the full range of intermediate stuff including writing
> device drivers, and system-level programming in general.
>
> Like Scott, I get the feeling that understanding the system-level
> stuff isn't as common any more (sadly).
>
> Simon.
>

My moment of enlightenment was the day I was told I wasn't a "real programmer" 
since I didn't know or use PHP.  Guy didn't even know what assembly language 
was.  It's actually a bit scary.

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