JASON, an open source joke

http://www.ollydbg.de/Jason/index.htm

by anigbrowl • 14 years ago

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cmsj• 14 years ago

It may not be useful to everyone, but it seems like a sincere project (from skimming the website). Why is it being described as a joke?

robtoo• 14 years ago

FWIW, the first line of the linked page does read

Olly, the author of OllyDbg, presents his new open source joke:

seclorum3• 14 years ago

Nice! It reminds me of the EDSAC simulator, which I find extremely important:

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/

Why important, you say? Well, these old computers aren't around any more, and what better way to teach new computer-science wannabe's the values of 35-bit computing? ;)

Shall we play a game?

Honestly, the joke angle is lost on me - old computers don't die, their users just degrade them! A working computer, whatever the age, is still a damned fine machine to be using, User!

unimpressive2• 14 years ago

>Honestly, the joke angle is lost on me - old computers don't die, their users just degrade them! A working computer, whatever the age, is still a damned fine machine to be using, User!

I think that the likes of Richard Greenblat and Bill Gosper would disagree with you. Just from a description of the PDP versus the IMB mainframes it's obvious that the articles produced by DEC were superior machines.

seclorum3• 14 years ago

See, thats where it all began - this malignant thought that 'old computers' are 'dead computers'. Computers don't stop being useful because of age - they stop being useful because someone makes the decision not to find a use for them.

JASON, an open source joke

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