I thought SFC was mainly south of the bridge.
And yet, by the 26th century, it was just another Taco Borg franchise. At last the chain-wars were truely over. (The Borg lost.)
Why would the.NET binaries have header files? And exactly which CP/M headers are you talking about, because I seem to have missed those Digital Research files through the years.
The base puffed stuff won't kill you directly, it's just un-food. They put all the extra stuff in it so that fat couch-potatoes won't starve to death eating it.:)
I've noticed a recent spike in Delphi jobs around here. I'm not sure if it's a trend or just part of the current developer job market thaw. Free Pascal might be an attractive for Delphi shops that want to have a Windows escape plan handy.
If you'd switched to Microware OS-9 on your CoCo, Basic09 was a lot more structured than the MS Basics of the day. Plus you would have had quite a kick-ass Unix-like micro-kernel OS for a machine of that class. (If you've still got it, there are still CoCo hackers still doing stuff including the NitrOS-9 project.)
If you drive far enough up Yonge St, you can always see Aurora.:) If you pick your location carefully, you can get a sky that's fairly dark without going all the way to Algonquin park.
Right now I've got Genie reading your page out-loud. (<h2> and </ul> make good tags for speaking breaks.) I don't think you used any of the keywords that my software is looking for to use Genie's gestures. Pity.
There a company selling that stuff (without the orange cheez) as "extruded starch" packing peanuts. It's biodegradable and green-friendly. They also have a sideline selling it as an anti-rodent control. The rats and mice eat it, get stuffed but gain no useful food value and starve. Wheee!
I guess that would explain why the Toronto area was cloudy the last few days. Every damned comet, meteor shower, eclipse, you name it, and someone turns the switch that rolls the clouds in. (And by area, I mean anywhere within a short drive to get away from the major light pollution.)
Each rover can be improved from what we've learned. Eventually we'll be able to build one that will handle most Mars obstacles and beat Mr Incredible! But seriously, we might as well learn more about Mars before losing people because of an oopsie.
*Sounds of IE being kicked down the dungeon stairs and a heavy iron door slammed*
I've run Firefox and IE in parallel for a while now. I mainly use Firefox, but never got around to removing IE as my default browser. So. When you replied, I got the email notification, I clicked on the link, IE was opened to the article. I typed in a reply, quoting bits right out of the Jan 1982 Byte article. It was great and I was about to send it when another Slashdot email notification came in.
So I opened it.
IE has two very bad habits. (1) It will steal open browser windows even if it has been told not to. (2) It will lose any user-entered text beyond redemption when it does this.
I might retype a reply later, but I think I'll go outside and scream just now.
A UNIX clone wasn't one of the three OS choices: PC-DOS, p-System, or CP/M-86. While the initial IBM PC was low priced, fast to create, and cheap to build (an Apple II killer), it was kept that way for years after by IBM internal politics. The higher price/profit workstation and small computer divisions didn't want PCs eating their low end. IBM dragged their feet on the 386 until well after competitors forced them to catch up.
That link also also makes reference to the FUD error message Windows would spit when running over top DRDOS without mentioning that it was only the Win 3.1 beta that did that.
That link is just a collection of good stories that were floating around. I think I'd need to see a lot more information before I believed the Easter Egg story. (MSDOS version, steps to bring up the egg, etc.)
It was function call compatible, and COM programs basically ran in a CP/M environment complete with CALL 3 OS call support for quick and dirty reassembly of 8080 code to 8086. At the very least, he wrote it from the CP/M documentation.
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I thought SFC was mainly south of the bridge. And yet, by the 26th century, it was just another Taco Borg franchise. At last the chain-wars were truely over. (The Borg lost.)
Isn't that a bit to the north of where Star Fleet Command is going to be?
If I ever work in that place, remind me to install a deadman-switch program. (If I get "terminated", let it be for death with cause!)
I'm not the one claiming .NET is CP/M backwards compatable...
Why would the .NET binaries have header files? And exactly which CP/M headers are you talking about, because I seem to have missed those Digital Research files through the years.
The base puffed stuff won't kill you directly, it's just un-food. They put all the extra stuff in it so that fat couch-potatoes won't starve to death eating it. :)
Heheh. C# for Microsoft. (BTW, last time I looked, the older versions of TP were available on the Borland site. 35k for the editor/compiler, wow.)
I've noticed a recent spike in Delphi jobs around here. I'm not sure if it's a trend or just part of the current developer job market thaw. Free Pascal might be an attractive for Delphi shops that want to have a Windows escape plan handy.
If you'd switched to Microware OS-9 on your CoCo, Basic09 was a lot more structured than the MS Basics of the day. Plus you would have had quite a kick-ass Unix-like micro-kernel OS for a machine of that class. (If you've still got it, there are still CoCo hackers still doing stuff including the NitrOS-9 project.)
I have finger macros that handle switching between { } and begin end.
No, it should be called by whatever Shiny Pretty is doing the GUI desktop. That's all that people care about, and no one sees the GNU utilities.
If you drive far enough up Yonge St, you can always see Aurora. :) If you pick your location carefully, you can get a sky that's fairly dark without going all the way to Algonquin park.
At that price, I think I'll bye the research.
Right now I've got Genie reading your page out-loud. (<h2> and </ul> make good tags for speaking breaks.) I don't think you used any of the keywords that my software is looking for to use Genie's gestures. Pity.
Hey, are you going to eat those?
I guess that would explain why the Toronto area was cloudy the last few days. Every damned comet, meteor shower, eclipse, you name it, and someone turns the switch that rolls the clouds in. (And by area, I mean anywhere within a short drive to get away from the major light pollution.)
And when they finally check on Mars, they'll find the rover jacked up in the badlands and stripped. Grand Theft: Meridiani Planum.
Each rover can be improved from what we've learned. Eventually we'll be able to build one that will handle most Mars obstacles and beat Mr Incredible! But seriously, we might as well learn more about Mars before losing people because of an oopsie.
I've run Firefox and IE in parallel for a while now. I mainly use Firefox, but never got around to removing IE as my default browser. So. When you replied, I got the email notification, I clicked on the link, IE was opened to the article. I typed in a reply, quoting bits right out of the Jan 1982 Byte article. It was great and I was about to send it when another Slashdot email notification came in.
So I opened it.
IE has two very bad habits. (1) It will steal open browser windows even if it has been told not to. (2) It will lose any user-entered text beyond redemption when it does this.
I might retype a reply later, but I think I'll go outside and scream just now.
Vita brevas, Michaelis Musculus longa.
Before that comes the key question: Can you afford a lawyer? If the answer is no, then the rest is moot.
A UNIX clone wasn't one of the three OS choices: PC-DOS, p-System, or CP/M-86. While the initial IBM PC was low priced, fast to create, and cheap to build (an Apple II killer), it was kept that way for years after by IBM internal politics. The higher price/profit workstation and small computer divisions didn't want PCs eating their low end. IBM dragged their feet on the 386 until well after competitors forced them to catch up.
That link is just a collection of good stories that were floating around. I think I'd need to see a lot more information before I believed the Easter Egg story. (MSDOS version, steps to bring up the egg, etc.)
It was function call compatible, and COM programs basically ran in a CP/M environment complete with CALL 3 OS call support for quick and dirty reassembly of 8080 code to 8086. At the very least, he wrote it from the CP/M documentation.
4.77MHz. 8MHz Turbo was for daredevils!