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From: Mike Williams on 1 Feb 2010 14:52 "Larry Serflaten" <serflaten(a)usinternet.com> wrote in message news:u5gLt62oKHA.5776(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote >> . . . In fact one of the very first really useful things I wrote in >> BASIC was a simple 6502 Assembler > > I take it you owned a Commodore then? Actually it was an Oric-I Larry, although I did later own a Commodore C64, which had essentially the same 6502 processor, except it was a version with half a dozen I/O ports built into the processor (a 6510 as I recall). Such luxury! I later moved on to another Commodore, the Amiga 500, which used a 68000 processor. That was by far my favourite. It was a beauty! Just a little bit of machine code and you could make it fly, especially when you started messing with the copper and the blitter (graphics co-processors). Those things were extremely tightly tied in to the system, in fact they ran on the opposite phase of the same clock used by the main processor, and you could do great things with them. There were a lot of limitations regarding colour depth of course, but you could do some things with the Amiga display that are not easy to achieve even on today's modern pcs. In its day it was a superb machine. Slow as a turtle by today's standards of course, but still an amazing machine nonetheless. > It was all much easier to comprehend and understand > when the OS, DOS, your program and any language > interpreter all had to reside within a 64K memory limit! That's true, unless of course you had a ZX81 with just 8K for the OS and 1K or 2K of RAM to play with, where you would have had even less to worry about (or more!). 64K would seem like a dream! I didn't actually see it, but I believe that someone once wrote a chess program that actually worked in that 2K of memory, a surprising feat since a fair chunk of it was needed for the display! But I left all those limitations behind (the limitations of my Oric and C64) soon afterwards, when I moved to my Amiga. Just imagine, 512K! Half a megabyte of RAM! How could anyone ever want any more memory than that! Mike
From: Michel Posseth [MCP] on 1 Feb 2010 16:20 It means "nader toelichten" in my language so yes i understand but no i won`t "C. Kevin Provance" <*@*.*> schreef in bericht news:eKMKUf3oKHA.5260(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > "Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message > news:%23nQZXy2oKHA.3948(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > | > | > Hmm I never looked at it from that perspective but..... i guess you > might > | > be right so you might also include > | > the vb classic group then > | > | Please elucidate. > > You can't use big words with the .Nxtheads. They've been dumbed down to > the > point where you'll have to start using little words. Don't forget to > including the dots so intellisense can guide them. <g> > >
From: Michel Posseth [MCP] on 1 Feb 2010 16:40 Are you dragging me in a flame war !, may i ask why ? are you really such a sociopath that you can`t even recognize a positive comment on your behalf ? As said before i really enjoyed your analogy , and just responded to that in a positive way , you turned it around in a bash towards me i wonder if the language barrier is really that big ( as i am not a native English speaker ) or that i really must reconsider my thoughts about you . "Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskyAndCoke.com> schreef in bericht news:%23nQZXy2oKHA.3948(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "Michel Posseth [MCP]" <msdn(a)posseth.com> wrote in message > news:461EFCB4-38B5-4E6A-8059-AB1D4C51490E(a)microsoft.com... > >> Hmm I never looked at it from that perspective but..... i guess you >> might be right so you might also include >> the vb classic group then > > Please elucidate. > >> Are you now done roisterer? , you know exactly >> what i mean > > I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you mean, Michelle. I know what > roisterer means of course, and it applies most aptly to your own behaviour > when you swaggered about telling the people on the newgsroup the > uproarious lie that you are /one of the few people/ who can actually code > in VB6 and in VB.Net. However your qualifying phrase, "you know exactly > what I mean", would seem to indicate that you actually mean something > other than the standard dictionary definition. So, once again Michelle, > please elucidate. > > Mike > > >
From: C. Kevin Provance on 1 Feb 2010 17:13 "Michel Posseth [MCP]" <msdn(a)posseth.com> wrote in message news:62B95249-AB87-40E4-AAA0-BF0F9E14E9DA(a)microsoft.com... | As said before i really enjoyed your analogy , and just responded to that in | a positive way , you turned it around in a bash towards me | i wonder if the language barrier is really that big ( as i am not a native | English speaker ) or that i really must reconsider my thoughts about you .. Uh oh, you're in trouble now Mike. The poor opinion of a .Nxter would just ruin my day. <g>
From: Mike Williams on 1 Feb 2010 17:48
"Michel Posseth [MCP]" <msdn(a)posseth.com> wrote in message news:62B95249-AB87-40E4-AAA0-BF0F9E14E9DA(a)microsoft.com... > Are you dragging me in a flame war !, may i ask why ? > are you really such a sociopath that you can`t even > recognize a positive comment on your behalf ? I probably forgot to include: Imports.System.DataCollection.InputDevice.VideoData.WrittenInput.Redirect.LocalStimuli.VisualCortex.ProcessingDevic e.Cerebral.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Language.Cognitive Mike |