joelfranusic-okta

In <http://boston.conman.org/2009/11/05.1>, “The dinosaur that I am”,
Sean Conner (spc476) suggests a sort of silly bare-metal problem...

> to most programmers, even a simple text editor is a crutch.
>
> Imagine being given a 1982 era IBM PC with a floppy drive and a
> single disk that contains a bootable MS-DOS system with IO.SYS,
> MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM (the minimum required to boot to a usable
> (for various values of “usable”) system at the time) and a stack of