11 Aug
2010
11 Aug
'10
5:11 p.m.
> 'course even 1979 would be fun, to relive
Apple, TRS80, and PET. Z80,
> 8080, 6502. Source and Compuserve. Hard sector V Soft Sector! Much
> better religious battles than the wimpy WINDOZE V LINUX squabbles that
> we have today.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
And someone apparently assumed I was talking about
Linux! ;)
Not really. I just oversimplified to avoid offending some of the bigots
:-)
Does anyone here remember a program called "The
Last One" that was
advertised in full-page ads in BYTE? I believe it was a code generator
of some sort. I'll go digging through magazines to see if I can find
it, but it popped into my head when I read the paragraph above. Does
anyone know anything about it?
I don't know anything about it other than the thoroughly obnoxious hype
when it was introduced at about the fifth or sixth West Coast Compuer Faire.
My comment then was essentially, "They won't keep the promise in their
name, there will still be more of those. Too many people think that what
everybody else wants is just a trivial variant of what they want, and
think that they can handle everybody's needs by just making their program
a little more general. Most of them seem to be very limited database
programs, where a resulting "program" is just obfuscated code for your
query or report request. Will RPG never go away?"
Yeah, I was grumpy before I got old; or maybe I've always been old.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com