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Re: Perl rules!
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:14:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Steve Bliss writes:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:27:57 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
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> > It just sucks that IBM chose the Intel 80x86 archtecture over, say, the
> > Motorola 68xxx architecture. The 68xxx architecture was always 32-bit and
> > would have saved the PC industry years of segmentation grief. And although
> > the 32-bit 80386 was released in 1985, it took nearly 10 years to stomp out
> > all of the old 8086 legacy garbage -- and it's not even totally gone today.
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> Yeah, whoever decided to do the segmented memory thing should have been
> shot. What a horrible idea. At least, it was enough to scare me off of
> learning 80x86 assembler.
Wait a minute. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but the segmented
memory architecture allowed you to create absolutely *tiny* programs that
did wonderful things. And you could fit tons of these programs on an
affordable *floppy* disk.
I have many fond memories from those days writing software in 80x86 assembler
using a dual floppy XT. Today's bloatware just doesn't compare. Uh, except
EMACS. Oh yeah, and the graphics are also better today.
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> Yeah, but what does that have to do with LDraw not supporting modes with
> more than 4-bit color?
Isn't 4 bit color the lowest common denominator between VGA and EGA?
> > In that regard, thank god for MS-Windows, since it helped do away with most
> > of the mess created by itself and Intel earlier.
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> Well, that's one good thing.
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> Are they all done rediscovering the big-iron concepts that they didn't have
> to worry about in the early 80's? Or is there more to come?
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> I'm still waiting for the *real* OS to come along. *nix will never appeal
> to the masses--the knowledge requirement is too high. WebTV (and similar
> things) won't cut it as a real computer. Windows is too bloated and
> legacy.
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> So what will it be?
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> Steve
I *hope* it's linux. If you can hide the "knowledge requirement" behind
an interface suitable for the masses, and keep the power for the others,
then I think it has a chance.
By the way, is anybody actively building or porting any L-CAD utilities
to linux these days? I've seen hints, but that's all.
Don Heyse (Make the spam go away before emailing)
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| Don Heyse wrote in message ... (...) What, Eighteen Megs And Constantly Swapping? Ever tried putting emacs on anything smaller than a CD? (...) Apparently the latest Caldera is quite good for that - all-GUI install, no reboots and autodetection of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) How did the segmented architecture enable the creation of tiny programs? (...) So? This is SVGA, and most video cards seem to not offer 4-bit color modes in resolutions above 800x600. So LDraw will happily work in modes that most video cards (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) And why did IBM stick all the ROM and system stuff in high memory (>640K), rather than low memory? If they had done that, it would have been (more) possible to extend the address space without totally losing backwards compatibility. Or if (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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