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Glad you enjoyed it. I remember that learning about the hardware and how it operated was the biggest part of learning how to program. Now, only the "advanced" CS students even get to muck around in assembler, but I'm sure they don't really explore the systems. IMHO, we've abstracted the hardware too much. Some of the folks I work with on a daily basis can do a fair job with Java, but if you asked them to bit-fiddle in C, or do some pointer arithmetic, they'd be totally lost. This doesn't even come close to what a lot of us used to do on the vintage computers, trying to squeak the last bit of performance out of an underpowered CPU or make a sound chip do something it wasn't really designed to do.

Heh, I guess I really miss the "old" days ;)
 
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