It was fun on those days!!!! :) Sent from my iPhone
On May 28, 2013, at 5:26 PM, "Bill Blomgren" <[email protected]> wrote: > Heh.. I wrote my own bios for CP/M - it got so big I ended up putting most > of CP/M in a second page of memory on my system. (and the bios had warnings > for my compiles that would pop up on the screen screaming "Warning Will > Robinson.. BIOS stomper" and the like... > > (I did a lot of Z-80 assembly work back in the old old days.. Not necessarily > "good" but now far enough back that the creatures I was working on are now > dinosaurs. A Disk Operating system for a medical company based on use of a > parallel port to did a single bit to transfer data? AEEEIII!!!!) > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Youngman" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 6:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How many Windows users are using Windows 98 SE? > > >> if we're going back that far, is anyone out there still running CP/M or >> Phimon, or using switches to toggle in machine code one byte at a time? Or >> worrying about the behavior of thunks in Algol and side effects of call by >> name, or perhaps whether all of the filaments in the tubes in the 64-bit >> accumulator are ok? >> >> :D Grant NQ5T >> >> >> On May 28, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Bill Blomgren" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In the commercial world, 98 went by the wayside back when MS dropped >>> support for it... which was somewhere in the 2000's as I remember. (I >>> never supported 98.. I was only in the server world there.) >>> >>> Considering the age of the computers that -can- run 98 these days, they are >>> .. well... OLD. I have 1 down in Charlotte that I didn't bump to XP only >>> because I had a film scanner from Polaroid (4000 pixels per inch) that did >>> an incredible job.. but had software that ONLY ran on 98. 4 weeks after I >>> bought that puppy ($1500 then) - Polaroid went belly up. So there have been >>> NO updates for the drivers and guts of the scanning software. <sigh> >>> >>> But I don't know anyone still running 98 or ME at this point. None. LOTS >>> of people on Linux, Mac, and Windows XP and 7. A few running Vista.. I >>> don't know of anyone running 8 at this point. (Uptake has been 1/2 the >>> dismal Vista uptake, which tells you something...) >>> >>> Moving up to the next generation of Compiler would be a good thing in my >>> eyes, but a lot of software doesn't need 64 bit versions.. (I suspect your >>> utilities probably are some of those...) - the WOW layer handles thunking >>> nicely so that 32 bit applications will run happily on 64 bit OS's.. >>> Compile for 32 bit in all cases because the last version that had 16 bit >>> support was XP as I remember..... >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Dievendorff" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:23 PM >>> Subject: [Elecraft] How many Windows users are using Windows 98 SE? >>> >>> >>>> I've been building the various Elecraft utilities (K3 Utility, KX3 Utility, >>>> P3 Utility, KPA Utility, XG3 Utility, K144XV Utility and XG3 Utility) with >>>> a >>>> 2005-era compiler, because that's the most recent version of the Microsoft >>>> Visual Studio C++ compiler that generates executables that will run on >>>> Windows 98 SE. >>>> >>>> >>>> I'd like to move to a more modern compiler, but the resulting code they >>>> generate will run only on Windows XP and later. That is, Windows XP, >>>> Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Would you be inconvenienced by this change? I'm hoping there aren't many. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Please let me know if you need the Windows versions of the Elecraft >>>> Utilities to run on Windows OS prior to Windows XP, and what OS you have. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks & 73 de Dick, K6KR >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
