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[Liam Proven]

On 26 September 2010 22:01, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:28 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 26 September 2010 08:07, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I got lost when gosub, goto and line numbers went by the wayside. I wuz
>> > just getting the hang of it, too. So, I took a stiff drink and decided
>> > I'd just use the damn computer. :) Ric
>>
>> That gave a good chuckle. Thanks! I know how you feel - I often feel
>> the same way. I'm a skilled support guy and can design and build large
>> complex systems, but my programming skills are so out-of-date now that
>> I feel like a fossil. I was happy in BASIC and could handle Fortran
>> and TuboPascal, but anything more recent just won't seem to stick in
>> my head.
>
> That wireless thing scares the hell outame.

What, wireless LANs? I don't *fear* them - hell, I was testing &
writing about them 13 years ago. The article is probably long gone,
but you can see a reference to it here:
http://bubl.ac.uk/archive/journals/netnews/n971015.htm

I hate the damned things though and don't use them if I can avoid it.
I find them horribly unreliable and all too often insecure. MY home is
wired up with 10Mb/s thin Ethernet - cheap & it only needs a single
wire and no hubs or switches sucking power 24/7.

> Well, so does DHCP. We
> didn't HAVE those niceties back in the day. Just gimmie good
> old /etc/hosts & resolv.conf and let me put it that way ~I~ want it.

Ah, no, got to disagree there. When I started deploying TCP/IP LANs in
the early-to-mid 1990s, DHCP was already common and it's fantastic. It
just works and unlike BOOTP it sorts out your clients' gateway
addresses, DNS servers and so on. Great stuff. Makes IP actually
usable.


> <sniffs> I still pine for cp/m and would dearly like to see how it would
> run re-compiled on a 64bit machine with 4 gigs of memory. It would
> mortally scream, huh?! :) Ric

Well, you could run FreeDOS. It comes with OpenGEM, which is based on
DR's original code, including GSX from GEM.
http://www.freedos.org/

I put it on a couple of old machines I was donating to charity last
year & was amazed to find my own name in the credits. I used to be
involved in the FreeGEM project, rather peripherally.
http://www.deltasoft.com/

If you want to run actual DR code on your modern PC, there is the Open
DR-DOS Enhancement project. I believe that DR-DOS these days supports
FAT32, USB and so on.
http://drdosprojects.de/

Also see:
http://www.drdos.net/
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php

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