Dissecting the Story of Mel

One of the things that piqued my interest in the RPC-4000 was the role it plays in the &ldquo;Story of Mel&rdquo;. A famous piece of hacker folklore describing the early days of programming &ndash; when &ldquo;abstraction&rdquo; and &ldquo;modularity&rdquo; were not a thing yet. To the contrary, programmers aimed to make full use of all intricacies of a machine to optimize their programs. Any side…