[HN Gopher] Hidden Files in C64 OS
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       Hidden Files in C64 OS
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2024-03-25 09:45 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.c64os.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.c64os.com)
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | One way to gauge when I started in computing is that figures like
       | https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.c64os.resources/weblog/hiddenfi...
       | were what our textbook authors felt was really important for us
       | to know, yet I have spent more than 3 decades since with
       | absolutely no need to care about physical disk layout (the
       | closest I ever got was video editing in the early 90s).
       | 
       | At some point Widlar's "Every idiot can count to one" stopped
       | being pejorative and was wholeheartedly embraced by the entire
       | industry.
       | 
       | Has anyone attempted to do a timeline of computing by "what no
       | longer matters" in each decade?
       | 
       | > _Civilisation advances by extending the number of important
       | operations which we can perform without thinking of them._ --ANW
        
         | sixothree wrote:
         | I feel like schools have gotten a lot better about this over
         | the years. Of course students are taught to walk using the
         | rudimentary components when they are learning to program.
         | 
         | We had to write a B-tree implementation in Java when I was in
         | school. I have used that knowledge exactly zero times. But I am
         | betting algorithms are still important.
        
         | FLT8 wrote:
         | I think mechanical sympathy is still useful, even in a world of
         | 'plenty'.. it's people with that kind of understanding who are
         | able to get current day computers to do things that others will
         | have to wait until tomorrow to achieve.
        
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