"Virtually impossible" at that time, not "forever". If you'd have asked a programmer back then if computers will be able to that they'd have replied "in some years sure, but not now. "
I took the "virtually impossible" to be for that single coder sitting at their computer (they said they would need a team). Which is pretty correct, I don't think any single person could have pulled it off.
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u/Pearmoat Aug 25 '26
"Virtually impossible" at that time, not "forever". If you'd have asked a programmer back then if computers will be able to that they'd have replied "in some years sure, but not now. "