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Re: Time to ROCK the boat.. It's almost 2000 ....------> R.I.P Micro$oft

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On Saturday, November 15, 2014 9:53:37 AM UTC, yu.les...@gmail.com wrote:
> воскресенье, 11 июля 1999 г., 13:00:00 UTC+6 пользователь Scott Drysdale написал:
> > On 11-Jul-99 03:35:06, Jam@Null.net wrote:
> > >WHiZZ-KiD <b.v.d.akker@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
> > >news:7m1ge6$16k$1@news.hccnet.nl...
> > 
> > >Right. and AFAIR, QDOS was a CP/M base.  The MODs were by todays law,
> > >illeagle and only barely leagle then, hence: "Rip-Off"
> > 
> > where do you get information that it was a cp/m ripoff?  as i said
> > before, there were several cp/m compatible 8080/z80/8086 oses, some
> > of them were even multi-user.  infosoft's I/OS is an example.
> > 
> > >SCOTT:
> > 
> > >>the pentium and friends are actually pretty respectable as far as
> > >>performance goes.
> > 
> > i should have added "given the antique ISA they have to support."
> > 
> > >Not really.  At least not from a design perspective!   Xenon is just about
> > >at the end of its gen. cycle.
> > 
> > you think the evil I won't continue to come out with faster and
> > faster x86 processors?
> > 
> > >>I'm less than impressed with the PowerPC.
> > 
> > >G3 design spec is real pretty and the technology is at the beginning of it's
> > >gen. cycle.  transistor for transistor G3 in it current state is nearly two
> > >times faster than Intel with a MUCH cleaner architecture!
> > 
> > i agree that it's a better architecture than the x86 family (which
> > pretty much is a big, fast Z80).  but it's just plain WEIRD.  i mean,
> > the bits are numbered backwards!  :)  and it's not cheap, even in
> > embedded versions (moto's 860 family, for example).
> > 
> > >>the MIPS stuff is much more sane.
> > 
> > >I heard all further development on MIPS has been perm. discontinued!
> > 
> > that's interesting.  i was in a meeting with sales reps for IDT (one of
> > several companies producing new MIPS cores) and they have extended plans
> > for faster and faster MIPS implementations.  we're using two MIPS
> > processors in the current project at work.  120MHz processor (one
> > instruction per clock for every instruction, assuming things are in
> > cache, except multiply), two 8K caches, PCI controller, SDRAM
> > controller, two UARTs, 4 DMA channels for $22.  that's twenty-two
> > dollars.
> > 
> > at least one of the super game machines (nintendo 64, i think) is a
> > MIPS machine.
> > 
> > >>- though I'm told the alpha people borrowed heavily from the MIPS
> > >>architecture.
> > 
> > >I don't think this is correct but it is totally unimportant!
> > 
> > it's in a MIPS book i read recently.
> > 
> > >>incorrect.  Microsoft's BASIC was one of the first (I'm tempted to
> > >>say THE first) basic interpreters for 8080 S100 machines.
> > 
> > >Microsoft basic WAS a rip-&-port of a BASIC from another platform and was in
> > >no way original (language wise) just re-written!  I may even still have the
> > >same code that MS started out with.
> > 
> > >I could actually be wrong on this last point but I was very into the industry
> > >from the mid 70s on, and this is my recollection.
> > 
> > what other platform?
> > 
> > find that source code you're talking about.  (i think) i still have a few
> > printed fragments of basic-80 source that i was using as a reference for
> > my modifications for the microoffice roadrunner port.  i could compare and
> > contrast for you.
> > 
> > --
> > // scott drysdale // 
> > // amigas and panheads and guns, oh my!
> 
> Scott, Do you have Microoffice Roadrunner laptop computer?

I think you may be around 15 years too late

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Re: Time to ROCK the boat.. It's almost 2000 ....------> R.I.P Micro$oft yu.leskovets@gmail.com - 2014-11-15 01:53 -0800
  Re: Time to ROCK the boat.. It's almost 2000 ....------> R.I.P Micro$oft Gregory Allen <jeggy111@googlemail.com> - 2014-11-16 04:05 -0800
    Re: Time to ROCK the boat.. It's almost 2000 ....------> R.I.P Micro$oft "Ryan P." <ryannewguy@gmail.com> - 2014-11-17 08:17 -0600
      Re: Time to ROCK the boat.. It's almost 2000 ....------> R.I.P Micro$oft Gregory Allen <jeggy111@googlemail.com> - 2014-11-18 00:23 -0800

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