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I wrote a Julia Set viewer in HolyC about 6 months ago. It was a very interesting experience to say the least.

Terry seemed to think it was pretty cool, so he made a 3rd Party Software page and linked to the GitHub repo.

https://github.com/pcorey/julia-templeos/blob/master/julia.C...

How does installing software work without networking?

I feel very old now. Traditionally you went to the shop, bought your boxed set of floppies[1] (or later CDs, though networking was becoming ubiquitous at this point) then went home and installed them one by one to your hard drive. I was early among my friends to get a modem in 1990 (along with a Compuserve subscription), but before that every piece of software I had was bought or copied from friends on floppy disk.

[1] http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7112/7488906888_f49800754f_z.j...

I guess I'm surprised there's code to run the floppy drive but not code to run the network card. Especially if the project started in 2003. But then again, maybe with a memory model that permissive, it's not very safe to open yourself up to unfriendly bytes.

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