HPR4666: How I got into tech

By Lennart Benschop22/06/2026 às 00:00278 views
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I started out with Basic on the TI-99/4A in 1984. The bare machine could not be programmed by the user in machine code. In 1985 I bought a ZX Spectrum, that gave me total control over the machine.

I wrote two FORTH systems on the ZX-Spectrum.

In 1988 I got my first 8088 PC, also programming it in FORTH.

In 1992 I got an 80386 PC and I ran Linux on it. MCC Interim Release from v. This was the first Linux distro.

I have been using Linux ever since.

From then on I obtained newer PCs, such as a Pentium in 1995, a Pentium-2 in 1998, a Pentium-4 in 2003 and a Core-2 Duo in 2006.

I used several

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