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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My commodore 64 laughs at the false dichotomy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, where we were READY to solve problems like "is that game ported to my system" and "is it any good?"

FWIW, we were also dropped immediately into a BASIC interpreter, day one. PC's may have been priming IT professionals, but were C64 users primed to be programmers?