That's too bad, my dad was a developer I'm second generation developer and if I ever have kids (I'm sure there's a few out there I don't know about:)) I would love if they followed in our footsteps but what you gonna do... funny about the Raspberry PI my dad also just got one and seems to be having fun again
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Hawksworth Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:48 AM To: feistfans-l Subject: Re: What's it like ... To continue to drag this thread techiewards and more OT... ZX81, wrote disassembler, assembler and word processor in hand-coded machine code (which is why I wanted the disassembler!) since they didn't exist at the time... was erm 11. I think I was at my peek (ha ha) at that point. Later Spectrum, QL,Amiga,PC,PC,PC.... My son isn't not interested however other than to 'use' them. Raspberry PI is trying to bring back that interest, good luck to them (have two of the first batch :-) ) I On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Jon Hope <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Bah! I grew up with having to program everything I wanted to run. I couldn't afford the $400 for the tape drive. Then I found an Amiga 500 and life became easy. Ever since it has become harder and harder. :-) -- Jon Something something blah blah blah On 26/03/2013, at 6:05 AM, Anestis Kozakis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 26 March 2013 08:38, Brian Jones (Trancendance) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: +1 And its about 2GB at its smallest. Actually, you could probably drop Windows 7 to 1 GB (or maybe less) if you stripped away all the unnecessary programs MS includes in the Windows install (Internet Explorer, Noptepad, etc etc). An OS should only provide the basic necessities to be able to: * Support basic input hardware (keyboard mouse) * Support basic monitor resolutions * Support and access a hard drive * Necessary APIs/Hooks for drivers/applications Everything else is icing on the cake. Anestis (who grew up in the good old days where DOS and your application ran in 128K of memory and off floppy disks). Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Mat Fisher<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 25/03/2013 20:25 Hey! I owe half my career to Billy Gates and Microshop! From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Nick Andrews Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 4:07 PM So I guess you don't work for Microshaft then? Win 7 is how many GB? On Mar 25, 2013 8:58 AM, "Richard Williamson" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: :) They say that "art is in the eye of the beholder". And yes, there is a certain art to be found in a run of concise, tightly written, elegant and well-mannered code. I never could get my ex-wife to understand that, btw. rip ________________________________ This e-mail communication, including all attachments, may contain private, proprietary, privileged and/or confidential information and is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. Any unauthorized use, copying or distribution of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, and have received it in error, please delete it and notify the sender immediately.
