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DaWei · Sep 6th, 2005, 9:14 AM

You can actually set up your equipment where you use toggle switches to set up the address, set up the binary pattern (data or instruction) to go there, clock it in, move to the next address, and so on. The microworld was not born with BIOSes, OSes, editors, and compilers. People developed them as tools. It distinguishes man from most (not all) animals in that he uses tools. That's why the REASON given by the OP is ludicrous. The GOAL is not.

Sep 6th, 2005, 9:14 AM	#4
DaWei Resident Grouch Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,453 Rep Power: 10	You can actually set up your equipment where you use toggle switches to set up the address, set up the binary pattern (data or instruction) to go there, clock it in, move to the next address, and so on. The microworld was not born with BIOSes, OSes, editors, and compilers. People developed them as tools. It distinguishes man from most (not all) animals in that he uses tools. That's why the REASON given by the OP is ludicrous. The GOAL is not. __________________ Abstraction doesn't make it impossible to write bad code; it makes it possible to write superior code. Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers