Brought back PTSD from when I took a mainframe assembler course a few semesters ago, I still get anxiety if I see that professors name in my student email inbox.

Wait until you try to do it using an FPGA

Or even better just using a bunch of gates and hard wiring it in.

Learning how to do it from scratch makes me more amazed we got to the point we have with computing hardware

Wait LOL! I actually know those people in the photo irl. This is a photo from Brookhaven National Laboratory, isn’t it?