ティージェーグレェ on Nostr: /me sees some post about slow transfer rates on some tool to extract some firmware ...

/me sees some post about slow transfer rates on some tool to extract some firmware from some “old” piece of hardware.

But: the hardware is way newer than other hardware I can think of having used that was seeing 1MB/s transfer speeds over an EPP parallel port (like ISA level tech vintage stuff).

And then I see the dev of the tool mention something about refactoring their Python and I’m like:

“Oh, the slower than 56K modem transfer speeds on that hardware suddenly make sense.”

Along with a continued feeling of dread that many devs these days don’t get low level enough for anyone’s own good and we all suffer for it.

Meanwhile that > 1MB/s transfer tool that comes to mind on older hardware even did endian byte flipping on-the-fly because it was clearly coded by someone (shout outs to mfm of Dextrose era scene stuff) who clearly had a clue.

I can’t help it though. My friends in grade school were already part of the warez scene. I probably knew better coders before I was even a teenager than many I’ve encountered in adulthood. 😕