MASM 6.1 vs 6.11

You can develop on the original hardware, and I did a lot of work on my Jr during the 8 years that I had it, but the floppy shuffle got very very old. Back then I had a 256K system. After creating the requisite RAM disk to fill the low memory hole left by the bass-ackwards video buffer there wasn't much left. I was using the Zbasic 3 and 4 series compilers back then, and made extensive use of overlays. (I wrote a BBS that ran on an XT for two years in NYC.) If I really need to max out the memory I would cut the video buffer to 4k (text only), skip the RAM disk, and then have about 220K left. I guess I'm spoiled now. My 'daily driver' Jr has 640K, full sized PC 5150 keyboard, DOS 5, an a SCSI drive (bi-di parallel port with a parallel-to-scsi adapter). That's quite a better system than before and I wouldn't have to shuffle anything, but my requirements have grown too. MASM 6.x might have a chance of running on it, but Turbo C++ 3.0 won't, and most of the stuff available from 1988 on up needs more horsepower than the Jr has. Right next to it is the 386-40 with the much faster disk, networking to my other machines for file transfer, etc. The 386-40 is there for data transfer anyway, and it makes a good 'mothership' for the Jr. (It has a Central Point Option Board, which is nice too.)