Re: TI-H: I know I'm going to regret this...
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Re: TI-H: I know I'm going to regret this...
From: J D <starkruzr@hotmail.com>
>> Before my time, I started programming on the TRS-80 model III, and that
was
> >in
> >basic. I started with Turbo Pascal 3 when we got the then $3000 Epson
QX-16
> >(with dual Z80 and 8088 processors, pretty knifty system, still runs
too).
>
> Still runs?! On what? CP/M?!
Yes indeed, it will run CP/M or MS-DOS (some sub version of 2). Generally
it sits
in the ValDocs main menu. Anybody remember that?
Thats the machine I learned most of what I know of assembly language in,
using
nothing but an 8088 instruction set listing, dos debug and the SideKick text
editor TSR. I actually wrote some stuff that worked. Like a little program
that
would change the font that DOS used. You had to draw the characters in
every
time you wanted to change something.
>> What I find amusing is that while I'm still relatively young (24), many
of
>> the new
>> programmers I run into haven't a clue how to use DOS.
>
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! THAT I find to be quite pathetic but unfortunately
> not too unlikely. In the GUI age of modern computing, no one needs the
poor
> little command-line anymore....::sniffle::
Well, I can't complain too much, I prefer a GUI, but at least I know how to
use
a command line...
What I do complain about is GUI's that are difficult to use, thats annoying.
DK
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