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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:20:40 -0800, balt wrote:
Salut Philippe what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. How about making it run on a real operating system ? |
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"Tom Rauschenbach" wrote in message news On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:20:40 -0800, balt wrote: Salut Philippe what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. How about making it run on a real operating system ? What you still have a Commodore Amiga? Martin |
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In article , Martin wrote:
"Tom Rauschenbach" wrote in message news On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:20:40 -0800, balt wrote: Salut Philippe what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. How about making it run on a real operating system ? What you still have a Commodore Amiga? Hey! Don't forget us TRS-DOS users! XP *is* a real operating system. Not, I grant, one I would use given half a chance, but it is a real operating system. Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk JediGeeks http://www.jedigeeks.com Is anyone interested in helping produce a whisky podcast? If so, please visit http://www.UrsaMinorBeta.co.uk/theDram/ |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... In article , Martin wrote: "Tom Rauschenbach" wrote in message news On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:20:40 -0800, balt wrote: Salut Philippe what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. How about making it run on a real operating system ? What you still have a Commodore Amiga? Hey! Don't forget us TRS-DOS users! XP *is* a real operating system. Not, I grant, one I would use given half a chance, but it is a real operating system. Jim Give me CPM anyday!! Martin |
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:08:04 +0000 (UTC), "Martin"
wrote: Give me CPM anyday!! Martin Hmm, I still have a Beeb-B monitoring auroral conditions, daily. CPM (and Z80stuff second processors) required expensive Tube (C?) prop. addons |
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WaltA wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:08:04 +0000 (UTC), "Martin" wrote: Give me CPM anyday!! Martin Hmm, I still have a Beeb-B monitoring auroral conditions, daily. CPM (and Z80stuff second processors) required expensive Tube (C?) prop. addons Ah, the good 'ole BBC 'B' - my all time favourite computer. Still a damn good machine for controlling stuff due to its plethora of ports and inbuild assembler. Got a couple here as well - as well as an Atom. Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk AIM/iChatAV: JCAndrew2 Is anyone interested in helping contribute to a whisky podcast? If so, please visit http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/theDram/ thank you. |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... "Tom Rauschenbach" wrote in message news On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:20:40 -0800, balt wrote: Salut Philippe what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. How about making it run on a real operating system ? What you still have a Commodore Amiga? I've still got two of them, in varying guises. An A1200 in a PC desktop box (with PS2 Keyboard) and an old A500 (1.3). They were damn fine machines with an excellent OS. All my earlier coursework was done on the A1200! ) Cheers, Jim |
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"James Hill" jay ay undaskor hill on microsoft's hot mail dottcomm system wrote in message ... "Martin" wrote in message ... "Tom Rauschenbach" wrote in message news On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:20:40 -0800, balt wrote: Salut Philippe what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. How about making it run on a real operating system ? What you still have a Commodore Amiga? I've still got two of them, in varying guises. An A1200 in a PC desktop box (with PS2 Keyboard) and an old A500 (1.3). They were damn fine machines with an excellent OS. All my earlier coursework was done on the A1200! ) Cheers, Jim These PC V Mac debates pale in compasison to the Amiga V Atari ST debates of old. Many a good argument there. Must admit I love the old Amiga, although being able to buy a new PC these days and run my old software is something all these newbie's to computing take for granted. As an owner, of a Vic 20, Atari 800, Commodore 128, Amiga then finally a PC the cost of buying new software each time was murder! Martin |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... These PC V Mac debates pale in compasison to the Amiga V Atari ST debates of old. Many a good argument there. Must admit I love the old Amiga, although being able to buy a new PC these days and run my old software is something all these newbie's to computing take for granted. As an owner, of a Vic 20, Atari 800, Commodore 128, Amiga then finally a PC the cost of buying new software each time was murder! I'll bet it was! You should have bought a PC in the first place, instead of all those toys. ;-) brag I remember bringing in my IBM PS/2 Model 70 486 PC to school as part of a talk on astronomy, and ran several programs during the hour talk, including GrandTour. At the time (1990), the school had BBC Master 128 machines everywhere. My talk was the first time many of them had actually seen a real computer, and my little ol' PC was more powerful than all of them put together. They also had two A3000 Archimedes machines which approached something like a real computer, but were still just toys. /brag GrandTour still runs on 2000/XP. |
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In article , Tom wrote:
brag I remember bringing in my IBM PS/2 Model 70 486 PC to school as part of a talk on astronomy, and ran several programs during the hour talk, including GrandTour. At the time (1990), the school had BBC Master 128 machines everywhere. My talk was the first time many of them had actually seen a real computer, and my little ol' PC was more powerful than all of them put together. They also had two A3000 Archimedes machines which approached something like a real computer, but were still just toys. /brag The BBC Master machines were _wonderful_ computers for their time. Implying that they were somehow not a 'real' computer is doing them a grave disservice. They were, I admit, quite long in the tooth by that point though. The A3000 was a nifty beast, but the video pallette was..eccentric, shall we say? However, we're getting woefully off topic so I'll shut up now. Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk JediGeeks http://www.jedigeeks.com Is anyone interested in helping produce a whisky podcast? If so, please visit http://www.UrsaMinorBeta.co.uk/theDram/ |
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