Re:Rendering like it's 1996 – Baby's first pixel
by royjacobs on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:34AM
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There's nothing that makes you feel old more quickly than seeing someone trying to rebuild the sort of technology you implemented in the era that they were actually modern.
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Re:Rendering like it's 1996 – Baby's first pixel
by 082349872349872 on Monday January 16, 2023 @08:25AM
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War story: ca. 1980, before PC meant IBM, there were many teams rolling their own personal computers. In one of which I'm aware, the hardware people attempted to play a practical joke on the software people by swapping the leads on the CRT yokes every once in a while.
It didn't pay off though: the software people quickly had a flag in their driver, and just absent-mindedly flipped it whenever they came in and their screen was displaying upside down, then carried on working as if nothing untoward had happened.