☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>1985</p><p>“BASIC was a fine tool to learn programming with. But <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programs</span></a> in it occupied far too much of the limited working <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> of a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/microcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microcomputer</span></a>, and it was horribly slow. </p><p>The way to get anything ambitious done was to write the program directly in the language <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> translated into: <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> code, only one layer up from the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/silicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silicon</span></a>. </p><p>Suddenly, you were responsible for the entire flow of very simple commands that allowed the computer to function.”</p><p>40 years ago, Elite was created and released by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IanBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IanBell</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DavidBraben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBraben</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elite</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambridge</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCMicro</span></a> <<a href="https://theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2003/oct</span><span class="invisible">/18/features.weekend</span></a>></p>