On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:38:50AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
Fred Miller wrote:
On Monday October 25 2004 9:52 pm, James Knott wrote:
Allen wrote:
BASIC from what I've read was what Young Hackers used too cut their first code. What about Assmebler? Was that used in school? I research OSs a lot and have seen old Macs using a Hex style syntax for something. I'd love to get my hands on some of these things. I think a 286 is about as old as I could use though, anything passed that and I don't think I'd have an OS that would work on it.
Outside of a high school Fortran class, my first programming experience was for the Datapoint 2200, which used the same instruction set, as the Intel 8008 (the first 8 bit) microprocessor. The 2200 was originally supposed to use the 8008, but it proved to be too slow, so Datapoint built their own CPU board instead.
Most of you don't even know that there was CP/M running an NCR video chipset providing 16 colors, and then we had 256 color support
I believe the DEC Rainbow, could do that. IIRC, it ran CP/M. Incidentally, there was a version of CP/M, called MP/M, which supported multiusers. As I recall, CP/M was in many ways, more advanced than DOS. This is likely due to the fact the the original DOS (Seattle Computing's Q-DOS) was intended to be used as a hardware development system, until CP/M-86 became available. Then, Billy-boy, sold it to IBM and then having done that, proceeded to buy it from Seattle Computing. In short, Bill Gates sold IBM something he didn't yet own.
Yea dude, it's funny what he gets away with. Have you ever read the book "The Complete Free BSD" ? It has a lot of this in there and is very interesting, I like it.
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