Welcome to the Jungle (article about the future of parallelcomputing)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Brad Anderson" <eco at gnuk.net> wrote in message 
news:mailman.185.1325982241.16222.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message
>> news:je9e3t$1g3l$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > so you are also following Andre's attemps to revive the
>> > old homebrew developer feeling. :)
>> >
>>
>> Yea, I grew up on that sort of thing. And I'd been working with Andre'
>> (LaMothe, of course) since well before he started doing hardware kits. 
>> His
>> old DOS-based game dev books are what moved me from various forms of 
>> BASIC
>> into finally really grokking things like C, pointers and low-level
>> programming (which I had only "kind of" understood before). Then I just
>> happened to end up in contact with him through a mutual aquaintence (via
>> AOL
>> 1.x ;) heh, yea, way back then). Andre' was starting up a budget-game
>> publishing company and was looking for a breakout clone, which I happened
>> to
>> already be working on. So there was that, and then he started some 
>> gamedev
>> forums that I was a regular on for years. Then Hasbro Interactive fucked
>> everything up with unsubstantiated litigation and typical corporate 
>> "drown
>> in legal fees" tactics, and then he got into doing hardware kits like 
>> he's
>> doing now.
>>
>
> I was a regular on there too.  Small world.
>

Heh, cool. I'm "Abscissa" over there (although I haven't posted or even 
lurked much in years). I was one of the two-digit user numbers :)