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23 December 2007, 09:46 PM

HankScorpio

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One for the geeks...

Do you ever get asked what you did at work today...?

How about writing the "ping" program..?

The Story of the PING Program

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23 December 2007, 10:48 PM

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It's sad but I like it...

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23 December 2007, 11:51 PM

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I've been very lucky in my IT career and always been a step or two ahead of the general population but I can't ever imagine that anything I do or produce will have any impact on anyone, let alone the impact or longevity of that one.

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23 December 2007, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by HankScorpio

Why is ping a 1000 lines of code tho, back in my day i wrote fancy amiga demo's in a few hundred lines, ah, you gotta love assembly, or maybe not, it was a bitch, but small and fast

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24 December 2007, 12:32 AM

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Why is ping a 1000 lines of code tho, back in my day i wrote fancy amiga demo's in a few hundred lines, ah, you gotta love assembly, or maybe not, it was a bitch, but small and fast

ah, playing with copper, agnus and denise in 68k assembler