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Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

188 points · 74 comments · midnightfish

  1. seanc · · focus · HN ↗
    How often would those cold-start switches be altered?

    Just when they wanted to swap tape-reading hardware?

    Or did different programs want slightly different loaders?

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