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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:10:13 -0500
From:      Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
To:        root@isis.dynip.com
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Very Strange Question
Message-ID:  <36C90BC5.9A727F4F@confusion.net>
References:  <199902142103.AAA08919@isis.dynip.com>

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I assume it was written in binary directly, which must have been a real
pain in the ass, esp since it can't be ported from what processor to
another at all.  I'm not really sure how one enters such a program into a
system but I guess the bios loads it on bootup if its in the bootsector
since that's what the bios is for?

root@isis.dynip.com wrote:

> Ok, we all know that famous debate about who came first, the chicken or
> the egg, on a similar scale, now you compile any c program with a
> compiler, right , like cc, so as to say, cc compiler itself is a
> program, so how it was first compiled, something like MS debug under
> dos, or what. I mean the FIRST ever compiler generated, how it was
> compiled into an exceutable ?
>
> More strange questions to come .......
>
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
        useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions
and
        a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
        originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
        company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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