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[โ€“] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My commodore 64 laughs at the false dichotomy.

Yes, where we were READY to solve problems like "is that game ported to my system" and "is it any good?"

FWIW, we were also dropped immediately into a BASIC interpreter, day one. PC's may have been priming IT professionals, but were C64 users primed to be programmers?