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In Praise of Don Lancaster (charlespetzold.com)
5 points by ingve on July 1, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> my background in digital logic was not common ... even among many of my colleagues in the computer industry

Thinking of my heroes of 20th century computing, most of them had hardware experience, at least to the extent of having thought of systems as involving hardware-software codesign; have the fields diverged so much in the 21st that one can no longer assume coders have the rudiments of EE (at least at the level of, say, nand2tetris?)




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