BLuRry wrote:

> I studied Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and
> learned a lot of the theory behind stuff I vaguely already understood
> from reading Nibble.  And thanks to my experience with 6502, I aced
> the 68000 asm class (which was notorious for being a fail-out class).

Heh.  That rings a bell here.  I received my undergraduate degree a bit later 
in life (my mid-40s) after ten years of hobby hacking and self-taught assembly 
coding.  While there, I challenged University of Vermont's 'Assembly Language 
and Machine Organization' course by presenting a folder of work I'd done (some 
of it for Applied Engineering) and submitting to about an hour's worth of 
grilling by the professor.  They waved me through with flying colors.  Easiest 
3-credits I ever earned.  To this date I think I'm the only person that made 
it through a challenge in the engineering dept :-).  Believe me, no University 
ever likes to give away credits (well, ok, it cost $90 for the paperwork) when 
they can charge $6-800 per credit-hour.
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