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Syrinx

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Mon Sep-13-10 05:48 AM
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Surely, the fidonet software wasn't written in assembly language

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Edited on Mon Sep-13-10 05:50 AM by Syrinx

Sorry, I don't think the fido software was actually open source. I think this is the best group for this post anyway.

This video is one of the creators of fidonet. While he's being interviewed, they have assembler code streaming up the screen.

Surely, they had heard of C by then.

http://bbsdocumentary.dreamhost.com/photos/vidcaps/fidonet-sample.mpg

EDIT: Oops. Here's the right link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85RJMhB8_s

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