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Amazing, he did in 3 weeks and that seems like 3 weeks of part time work, that's amazing. It's amazing how much work we can put out in a small time if we are focused. I lost it during the video when he got tangled up in vi. In 1998, I got a Sun 3 workstation which has a 68000 cpu, the only thing I could get to run on it then was NetBSD. It's amazing that a single person can now build such a computer and run Unix on it within 3 weeks. Just amazing, how time changes things.

I built almost the same thing as a senior final project in digital electronics in 2000. It took me 7 months and I never even troubled myself to go beyond simple assembly programs.

I am humbled.

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