I’m not really part of the “older” generation of programmers, but when I was a teenager I experienced the personal computer boom first-hand.  I remember the days of 4.7 Mhz computers doing incredibly wonderful things on 8-bit and 16-bit architectures with crappy video chipsets and very low memory.  I majored in college in Computer Science and programmed a bunch of C code on DOS and Amiga computers.  I used to download 3k demos written in assembly code over my 2400 baud modem.

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