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walkingman

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3. Cool, As someone that used C in the early 70s on a DEC PDP-11/03 (two 8" floppies) it really would have been

Reply to William Seger (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2026, 05:45 PM

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a huge help. I worked for ATT and used it to target software interrupts to point to hardware faults. It previously required analyzing octal dumps through registers and was very time-consuming and the likelihood of making a simple error was high.

Very Cool!!

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I'm seriously impressed with GitHub Copilot [View all] William Seger Sunday OP

I've been using it for a few weeks Shrek Sunday #1

I viewed a video recently where they were Sector 001 Sunday #2

Cool, As someone that used C in the early 70s on a DEC PDP-11/03 (two 8" floppies) it really would have been walkingman Sunday #3

I hear you; I started programming in assembly language and microcode on a HP 1000 William Seger Sunday #4