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A comment on First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by mongol on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:40AM (#28455652)
Ergonomics were much, much worse before. I had my Commodore 64 hooked up to the TV in the living room. It was not easy to program using an old tube TV displaying text with 320x200 resolution graphics.
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Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by pjmlp on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:51AM (#28456255)
Which is why the first thing 1980's game developers would do when getting out of their bedrooms into proper offices, was migrating into development systems based on systems like VMS/UNIX or similar, and then upload the games into the Speccy and C64 via the extensions port.
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