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Re:ASM by aidenn0 on Friday April 12, 2013 @12:29PM (#5539461)
Okay, I swear I've read the exact story of filling up the screen with @ signs before, but it wasn't on Ron Gilbert's site.
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Re:ASM by JamesAcorn on Sunday April 14, 2013 @07:27AM (#5546624)
I was thinking the same thing; my initial thoughts were Jeff Minter or James Hague, but Google is not showing anything relevant.

It might simply be that a common first-time benchmark exercise for programmers moving from BASIC to assembler is to fill the screen with characters or pixels. I have a sneaking suspicion I did the same too.

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Re:ASM by aidenn0 on Monday April 15, 2013 @07:01PM (#5555060)
The story I remember took place in the UK.
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