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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by vessenes on Saturday July 23, 2011 @12:17AM (#2796137)
Steve Wozniak recreated a disk controller in assembly on a motorola 68k chip in less than a day, and it worked pretty much perfectly first time, and you are complaining that he's not much of a hacker?

What do you do in your spare time, if I may ask politely?

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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by bodyfour on Saturday July 23, 2011 @12:39AM (#2796174)
6502, not 68k
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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by vessenes on Saturday July 23, 2011 @12:26PM (#2797173)
Oops, thanks!
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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by cma on Saturday July 23, 2011 @02:21AM (#2796348)
From his head and from his listings? How much was from the listings? Do you know what listings are? (I know Woz is a godly Hacker, I'm just playing devil's advocate)
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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by palish on Saturday July 23, 2011 @07:42PM (#2798173)
Heh. For what it's worth (and at the risk of karma annihilation), you're probably correct. A lot of the seemingly-godly things people have done are from 'simple tricks' that they've learned. People just don't like to admit it.

Woz was as brilliant as technical brilliance could possibly ever be, though.

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