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Re: 7412 Programming



"Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>"G. Morgan" <usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:252hj6prah5hplomlqd8qvqea00fmackfl@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Jim Rojas <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Radionics uses 1980's technology...does CPM come to mind?
>>
>> I hate Radix panels.  Some say that's the only way to build a
>> 'big' system but that's not true.
>>
>> CPM was a little before my time, but I did write programs using
>> "debug" in machine language in DOS 5 for school projects.
>
>Code from scratch using debug.  Wow.  You were a masochist.

Had no choice if I wanted to pass the class!

>  Chasm was the
>way to go back then.  Awesome direct machine control.  I also had a book of
>machine calls and dos calls that made it a piece of cake.  It was
>interesting to see that not every bios treated every machine call the same
>way too.  I documented a couple bugs that would trash the registers on some
>machine bios'.  Particularly video calls.

Which is why they probably never gave we students access to that
program.  I could just imagine them sending back 60 machines to be
de-bricked!






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