I remember when

[johndowe]

Hi there.

I started with an atari 2600 game console then i got a commodore 64, 286, and xt almost at the same time...

Learned basic on a Dec PDP11 - 45 RSTS/E, later tought myself to program my 64 in assembler basic was way too slow, learned pascal, didn't like it, too easy to make errors with all those begins and ends DON'T BUG ME ABOUT THAT, you like Pascal fine, lets agree to disagree ok. liked dos i would combine small ASM programs in batch files and make my old pc's do what i wanted, the only thing that i find stupid is microsoft, an operating system should take as little system resources as possible, within reason, and that excludes every programming language but ASSEMBLER, windows would be much smaller, faster, and more stable were it programmed in ASM instead of C. C and all it variants should be used for custom programming to keep developement times and costs down, everything else SHOULD be programmed in ASM, but i know i'm preaching to a deaf audience on that one, because everything today is qiock, quick, quick, and assembler is only quick, quick, quick, when running, not while in developpeng, and you need discipline and resolve to program in ASM effectively, most companies are too "something" to even try something like that, they'd have to invest time, energy and money creating and mantaining (DEBUGED) code libraries, even though it would make their products much better in so many way.

Got carried away there.

JohnDowe.