That sounds exciting. I have not worked in assembler in many years. Is it possible to move code to different hardware with a different instruction set and, of course, a different assembler? The last time I worked in assembler was on an Intel 8080. I think it only took 3 months to write a tape device driver. For a bookkeeping application like we work on now, it would probably take about 5 thousand years to write in assembler or about 400,000 years in machine code. But you could split that time between a few thousand developers if you had enough money. Sounds like somthing the government would be interested in doing.
Reminds of the present Obama healthcare fiasco with the 'MU' EHR requirements. The AMA just woke up and brought up the issue of a doctor working in several different institutions and all of them have different software with a different user interface. Obviously no one who worked on that law bothered to talk to the people who would be required to use it. After looking at some of the 'certified' EHR packages out there, I have not seen any that are usable, much less having to learn how to use several. Probably all of them will patent their user interface so it will not be possible to have anything 'common' ----- Original Message ----- From: "MB Software Solutions,LLC" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Questions on migrating VFP app On 6/22/2011 4:21 PM, John Harvey wrote: > I would go with assembler. This project would last forever! Cha-CHING! $$$$$ :-) -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/026701cc3121$2c86df20$7a00a8c0@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
