To continue to drag this thread techiewards and more OT... ZX81, wrote disassembler, assembler and word processor in hand-coded machine code (which is why I wanted the disassembler!) since they didn't exist at the time... was erm 11. I think I was at my peek (ha ha) at that point. Later Spectrum, QL,Amiga,PC,PC,PC....
My son isn't not interested however other than to 'use' them. Raspberry PI is trying to bring back that interest, good luck to them (have two of the first batch :-) ) On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Jon Hope <[email protected]> wrote: > Bah! I grew up with having to program everything I wanted to run. I > couldn't afford the $400 for the tape drive. Then I found an Amiga 500 and > life became easy. Ever since it has become harder and harder. :-) > > -- > Jon > > Something something blah blah blah > > On 26/03/2013, at 6:05 AM, Anestis Kozakis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 March 2013 08:38, Brian Jones (Trancendance) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> And its about 2GB at its smallest. >> > > Actually, you could probably drop Windows 7 to 1 GB (or maybe less) if you > stripped away all the unnecessary programs MS includes in > the Windows install (Internet Explorer, Noptepad, etc etc). > > An OS should only provide the basic necessities to be able to: > > * Support basic input hardware (keyboard mouse) > * Support basic monitor resolutions > * Support and access a hard drive > * Necessary APIs/Hooks for drivers/applications > > Everything else is icing on the cake. > > Anestis (who grew up in the good old days where DOS and your application > ran in 128K of memory and off floppy disks). > > >> Sent from my Windows Phone >> ------------------------------ >> From: Mat Fisher <[email protected]> >> Sent: 25/03/2013 20:25 >> >> Hey! I owe half my career to Billy Gates and Microshop! >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Nick Andrews >> *Sent:* Monday, March 25, 2013 4:07 PM >> >> So I guess you don't work for Microshaft then? Win 7 is how many GB? >> >> On Mar 25, 2013 8:58 AM, "Richard Williamson" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> :) >> >> They say that "art is in the eye of the beholder". >> >> And yes, there is a certain art to be found in a run of concise, tightly >> written, elegant and well-mannered code. >> >> I never could get my ex-wife to understand that, btw. >> >> rip >> >
