14 Jan
2012
14 Jan
'12
11:45 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:23 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
Weird, I liked it even on the Apple II. We had it running on a mc68000,
and that was zippy! I thought back then, that the architecture was nice. As
soon as you got it working at all, it was very easy and fast to make
changes to the system. We had lots of different graphic display back then,
and the adaption was very easy.
Thinking back, the main problems were:
* the disk system, which required files to always be contiguous. You
therefore had to k)runch drives if there wasn't enough space to store
things.
* the system used lots of memory, meaning you had to write things in little
pieces and chain them together
* the system used substantial amounts of floppy drive space, leaving very
little for the actual data. I was going to buy a 5 meg hard drive.
* I think the IO system (talking to the modem) was the last straw. (; I
don't remember why...
When I got my hands on Turbo Pascal 3 on a Tandy 1000, I was in heaven...
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