1 May
2007
1 May
'07
4:58 p.m.
On May 1, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
An 8MHz 8086 is more than twice as fast as Dave's target hardware
(a 4.77MHz 8088). On such a machine, it would be tolerable.
Look, it's a nice viewer, but view a file out of a ramdisk on a
4.77MHz 8088 if you don't believe me. There's a 5-second minimum
startup delay to fill a buffer, then another delay when you cross
memory windows. If you're trying to inspect more than a handful of
files at the same time, it gets frustrating.
Hmm. Well admittedly that was twenty years ago; it's certainly
quite possible that there was frustration involved that I don't
recall now. I have nothing but fond memories of LIST.COM, and I tend
to be not very forgiving about stuff that frustrates me.
It's nice to see LIST getting the votes, but
it's very slow on
808x hardware, which was Dave's target platform.
Buh?? I don't think
I've ever seen a lighter-weight piece of
software than LIST...I used it daily when my 8MHz V20-based PC
clone was considered a screamer, and it was never any slower than
"instant". Don't confuse small size and age with
"lightweight".
Um...I *wasn't*; I based my comments on having used the program
all the time on what was then considered current hardware. Please
keep in mind that some of us here (yourself included of course) have
actually used this stuff before it became "antique".
A Boyer-Moore search algorithm written in Pascal
will outperform
a REP CMPSB in assembler. LIST is flexible but it's not the fastest.
Understood. And I've certainly not run it on a 4.77MHz 8088.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL