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Offline Trev

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Re: Resource hungry operating system
« on: October 09, 2010, 05:21:13 PM »
@ajlwalker

You are a mean person.

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Sound and vision are perhaps the worst offenders. If we'd simply return to monophonic sound and monochrome displays, all our worries would be over. Let's ditch the fancy input devices as well. I'd much rather go back to systems that simply run what I tell them to run when I apply power.
 

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Re: Resource hungry operating system
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2010, 06:07:08 PM »
Quote from: the_leander;583725
And basic, it's gotta have basic!


BASIC!? That implies an interpreter, probably in ROM. If anything, it needs a mechanical switch to keep power away from the CPU until a punch card is inserted.
 

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Re: Resource hungry operating system
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2010, 06:08:13 PM »
Quote from: minator;583727
Choice of language

My C compiler writes way better assembly than I do. ;-)

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I can remember running BeOS

Sigh. One of several operating systems that could have (or rather, should have) been the next AmigaOS....
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