WINDOWS VISTA BETA 2 NOW FREELY AVAILABLE BUT BE WARNED

[Al Klein]

Wouldn't it be cool to have a time machine so you could
go back and grab expert byte-counting assembly
programmers from the old days and show him this modern
stuff? Their eyes would roll back in their heads and down
they would go. I started out with Z80 and 6502 stuff, and
have even written chained Basic programs to run on a 5K
Vic-20 with a 3.5K TPA after the OS loaded. "hmmm, I need
to shave 500 bytes off ... where, how???"

It's called "programming with a shoe horn"

But I've written stuff that used more than 64k on Z-80s, 6502s and
6800s (paged a lot of RAM in and out - CP/M BIOS and video all in one
page even) and I've written stuff that ran more efficiently when
modules didn't have to be swapped in and out of a 640k address space,
especially back when 5 meg drives were slow. (Remember the PS-2 and
non-DMA disk transfer that killed the video during disk access? Or
the TVT, that ran the video in software, and stopped video processing
when anything else had to be processed?)

 

[Al Klein]

Don't authors of most software want free beta testers?

Most people who want free beta testers usually give a free copy of the
production version of the product to the beta testers after the beta
test is finished.

 

[raincoater]

Hello, (e-mail address removed)!

Now thats what I call bloat. Why would one buy a fast PC then kill its
performance with such an obese OS?

NT

What Grove giveth, Gates taketh away. Thus has it ever been.