In 1985, I took my first IT job working for a defense contactor. They, did very low level software work on Naval Targeting computers. The computers were still in prototype mode where they used emulators that acted as the CPU.
Connected to the emulator was a LED display. The engineers used that panel to punch in op codes. They were progrmming in op codes. This meant they knew all of them, their parameters and output. It must have taken them years. Today, none of that knowledge is relevant. Moral: Be very careful in investing effort into spooky, obscure , unproven, or secret projects.
For me, I take the road closest to the customer, not the deep internals stuff. I read continuously but only dive in after the thing is well established.
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In 1985, I took my first IT job working for a defense contactor. They, did very low level software work on Naval Targeting computers. The computers were still in prototype mode where they used emulators that acted as the CPU.
Connected to the emulator was a LED display. The engineers used that panel to punch in op codes. They were progrmming in op codes. This meant they knew all of them, their parameters and output. It must have taken them years. Today, none of that knowledge is relevant. Moral: Be very careful in investing effort into spooky, obscure , unproven, or secret projects.
For me, I take the road closest to the customer, not the deep internals stuff. I read continuously but only dive in after the thing is well established.