Stephen Usher wrote: Hi Steve, ... >>I find with 2M on my GC, data and programs just rattle around inside! Even >>with the base 128K machine (around 77K(?) free for use) I used to be able to >>do/run more than I could with a 540K PC. Or are people becoming so >>"bloatware expecting" that 4M sounds titchy? > > Yes, but the QL doesn't have all those silly GUI thingies written in bloating > C++ (or now JAVA and .NET). I must admit that I sometimes found 128K > restrictive but never filled the Trump Card memory. (Oh and I did have a > sort-of GUI thingy for the QL, the ICE ROM & mouse.)
Neither did the 540K PC of the time (Windwos 3.x were just about around when I got the GC, but never had them at the time to compare with using the 128K QL). > Still, storage has never been a problem for you, other than the UCL Euclid > file quota, which you got around using a neat trick using the e-mail inbox if > I remember correctly. If space really ran out there was alway the "emergency" PTP (Paper-Tape-Punch) archive...I still have a few sitting around upstairs, but with no means of reading contents :( > Oh and then there was thae hack for getting long > printouts on the self-sevice printer.. and the Babbage programs you wrote > which made UCLCC people nervous about 'cos they did things no-one thought a > normal user could do. Funny you should mention them...I was having a chuckle about one in particular (the pre-main code filing password adder/remover) and exactly what it did and how it did it. > By the way, I seem to remember a couple of years ago that you asked if you > could pass on the source etc. of the terminal emulator I wrote to someone, did > you do so? Seeing as I've not got a modern machine readable copy would it be > possible for you to fish it out and pass it onto whoever archives QL software > on this list? Someone might as well get some use out of it. I have it somewhere...need to search...can't remember to whom I wanted to send it now. To whom should I sent it (ie who would possibly be interested in archiving/having it [for distribution])? Dilwyn? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Newson, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17 Sunnybank, South Norwood Phone: (020) 8654 6643 London, SE25 4TQ Mobile: 07737 515 214 or 07922 060 873 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
