Ohh geez now you've got them started. Some old codger will relive the good old days, programming COBOL on a main frame or something.
Only kidding. (I only stretch back as far as MS-DOS 5.0 and 386's that I learned to program on when I was a kid.) On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:54, Stephen Barker wrote: > Yes, > > I recall we used to upgrade IBM XT's and clones from the 8088 chip at > 4.77mHz to the NEC V20 running at 8mHz. > > We also used a TurboDos system and each card/user had a Z80 (B from > memory) with a massive 128k ram. Actually it was 2 pages of 64k each > with DOS in one and the other remaining 63k (1 k used by the page > swapping code) available for programs - a big improvement on the usual > 48k pc's. > > dBase III could only use 48k and internally only 1.5k for > variables which was rather limiting, and only 2 tables open at a time. > I wrote some assembler code that could be called from dBase that poked > data above the 48k ceiling, effectively giving me an extra 15k for > array data. > > Those were the days - not. > > Steve _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
