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In 1969 IBM thought teaching hardware guys some software was a good idea. I got started with 360 assembler just as a hobby in the course. IBM abandoned the idea but I stayed interested in asembler. dBase scripts, PC Basic and PC assembler are not all that different. It is amazing how blaoated the software has become when you can do, basically everything we are doing here tonight in about 30k of code but we are all lugging around somewhere between 200meg and a gig of bloatware to do the same thing.
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My feelings exactly Greg. As Ian's post emphasizes, we have vast hardware resources now at unbelievably low prices compared to what memory and disk space used to cost, and yet the bloated modern O/S and applications still have problems carrying out tasks which a 30-year-old system could have done simply and efficiently in a fraction of the space.
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Linux=Wigwam: No windows, no gates, apache inside.
The world is full of beauty if the heart is full of love
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Is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
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Linux=Wigwam: No windows, no gates, apache inside.
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Found on the Net: The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
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Never had any problems with MS. I just learn the foibles and use it like any other tool. I'll probably upgrade to Vista when the time comes.
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Alan, nice signature IA
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