On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:01:35PM -0400, 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.....MickySoft had just started to ship Winders then. 'Had IBM only been smart enough to take a long look at the modified KayPros, Gates might have drifted off into obscurity where he deserved to be.
Fred
I've used CP/M sort of. I had a shell account on a box that was suing a CP/M emulator or something similar. It's just what gave birth too DOS anyway ;) If MickySoft is Microsoft, does that make That place in Washington Disneyland?
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