WINDOWS VISTA BETA 2 NOW FREELY AVAILABLE BUT BE WARNED

  • Thread starter Thread starter Dr. Jai Maharaj
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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?)
 
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.
 
Hello, (e-mail address removed)!
You said:
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.
 
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