Re: Throwback

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Rob Kendrick once stated:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 07:18:03AM -0700, Coda Highland wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:37:51AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > >> > I was pleased to get an email from a man who wanted to introduce
> > >> > his son to programming using Lua. He ended his email with:
> > >> >
> > >> > > Anyway, my conclusion is this would be a good way to introduce my son to
> > >> > > programming, but the main obstacle is the debugging!  Throwback into the
> > >> > > editor would be ideal, if that could be arranged.
> > >>
> > >> Come on, teach the kid the right way! Print debugging is the way to go :-)
> > >
> > > Oscilloscope attached to a pin on the parallel port or nothing.
> > >
> > 
> > I have literally done exactly this before (okay, it was a GPIO pin,
> > not a parallel port). It's fun. :P
> 
> It is not fun.  Especially when you're using it to debug the initial
> program loader on an x86 system :)

  What?  No card supporting port 80h? [1]

  -spc

[1]	http://www.confignotes.com/2013/04/intel-x86-port-80h-post-codes/