Ms-DOS Problems?
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Wow! I was just slumming for a bit over at techrepublic. Someone there has managed to make DOS freeze:laugh: Now there's some talent - I've never managed that! From what I could gather he isn't even running a program yet, just running it up... Has anyone ever seen such a thing? This place is movin' mighty slow tonight! Maybe some guy with a submarine and a backhoe dug up the TransAtlantic cable again... pesky contractors.
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Wow! I was just slumming for a bit over at techrepublic. Someone there has managed to make DOS freeze:laugh: Now there's some talent - I've never managed that! From what I could gather he isn't even running a program yet, just running it up... Has anyone ever seen such a thing? This place is movin' mighty slow tonight! Maybe some guy with a submarine and a backhoe dug up the TransAtlantic cable again... pesky contractors.
Perhaps he put this in his autoexec.bat ctty nul :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Wow! I was just slumming for a bit over at techrepublic. Someone there has managed to make DOS freeze:laugh: Now there's some talent - I've never managed that! From what I could gather he isn't even running a program yet, just running it up... Has anyone ever seen such a thing? This place is movin' mighty slow tonight! Maybe some guy with a submarine and a backhoe dug up the TransAtlantic cable again... pesky contractors.
I used MS-DOS's 5 and 6.11 as my only OS for over half a decade when I was growing up... only one time did it ever puke and die. Not bad at all. -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com SonorkID: 100.12194
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I used MS-DOS's 5 and 6.11 as my only OS for over half a decade when I was growing up... only one time did it ever puke and die. Not bad at all. -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com SonorkID: 100.12194
Did you use it for programming? I did and while I was learning how to write TSRs, I used to crash the damn thing at every assemble, till I got it right. That was before my C days. I didnt know things were easier in C and tried using MASM to do everything :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Did you use it for programming? I did and while I was learning how to write TSRs, I used to crash the damn thing at every assemble, till I got it right. That was before my C days. I didnt know things were easier in C and tried using MASM to do everything :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
What's wrong with MASM? I liked ASM programming, though I could never afford MASM. Fortunately, Turbo Pascal came with a nifty inline statement that let me insert assembly directly into the program. Using that feature, I also got the benefit of the debugger! I still have all the software, but it's on 5.25" disks - no way to read them. I'm not too sure, either, just how the resulting code would behave on a modern PC:laugh: Last night I saw upon the stair, a little man who wasn't there... Bartender, another round!
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What's wrong with MASM? I liked ASM programming, though I could never afford MASM. Fortunately, Turbo Pascal came with a nifty inline statement that let me insert assembly directly into the program. Using that feature, I also got the benefit of the debugger! I still have all the software, but it's on 5.25" disks - no way to read them. I'm not too sure, either, just how the resulting code would behave on a modern PC:laugh: Last night I saw upon the stair, a little man who wasn't there... Bartender, another round!
Yeah, I had it on 5 and a quarter diskettes too till a while ago my mom cleaned up my room and threw out all my old stuff. I didnt mind either. Those floppies were all prolly tottaly destroiyed and fungussed out!! I had a lot of stuff on those floppies though [around 70 of them big floppies each 1.2 MB, some even 360 kb] Turboa C [not C++ but C], MASM, tasm, Turbo Basic, Basica, gwbasic, ndd [dos version], nu [dos], pctools [their first two versions] and a lot of other funny DOS days stuff including some really old games like digger, pacman, prince of persia 1.0.... Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Yeah, I had it on 5 and a quarter diskettes too till a while ago my mom cleaned up my room and threw out all my old stuff. I didnt mind either. Those floppies were all prolly tottaly destroiyed and fungussed out!! I had a lot of stuff on those floppies though [around 70 of them big floppies each 1.2 MB, some even 360 kb] Turboa C [not C++ but C], MASM, tasm, Turbo Basic, Basica, gwbasic, ndd [dos version], nu [dos], pctools [their first two versions] and a lot of other funny DOS days stuff including some really old games like digger, pacman, prince of persia 1.0.... Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Although I know they're useless, I sure hated to throw away all those old goodies. I even had some 8" floppies from the venerable HP9835 desktop calculator I used to test a number of missiles for the Navy and Army. I wonder if any of those machines still exist? Sigh... The HP9835 ran on an interpreted language called hpl. Everybody hated it, as it used lower case letters and looked funny. I loved it because I could write code that changed itself while executing:laugh: That drove the quality people nuts...
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Although I know they're useless, I sure hated to throw away all those old goodies. I even had some 8" floppies from the venerable HP9835 desktop calculator I used to test a number of missiles for the Navy and Army. I wonder if any of those machines still exist? Sigh... The HP9835 ran on an interpreted language called hpl. Everybody hated it, as it used lower case letters and looked funny. I loved it because I could write code that changed itself while executing:laugh: That drove the quality people nuts...
Roger Wright wrote: That drove the quality people nuts... Those villains existed then too eh? I didnt know they dated back that long! I kinda thought they were a new age menace like the ozone hole and osama laden. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Roger Wright wrote: That drove the quality people nuts... Those villains existed then too eh? I didnt know they dated back that long! I kinda thought they were a new age menace like the ozone hole and osama laden. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Oh no. I expect that the first guy to chip out a wheel probably had some QA clown looking over his shoulder, making sure the radius didn't vary beyond the specified limits, the axle holes were properly chamfered, the rock density was sufficient to ensure integrity while crossing bumpy terrain, and all that rot. I spend a number of happy hours dreaming up ways to outfox the "lookie-lous" at work. Had to, as some of the stuff we did couldn't work if we played by all the rules. Rules are for people too stupid to live a just and decent life without being told how to behave. Genius has always ignored the rules, doing no harm and suffering none.
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Did you use it for programming? I did and while I was learning how to write TSRs, I used to crash the damn thing at every assemble, till I got it right. That was before my C days. I didnt know things were easier in C and tried using MASM to do everything :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Did you use it for programming? I did and while I was learning how to write TSRs, I used to crash the damn thing at every assemble, till I got it right. Nish, I did use it for programming mostly. Many many a time I lost clusters on my HD, sectors suddenly disappeared, etc, learning file I/O in C. Ahhh... the days. -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com SonorkID: 100.12194