ASM Programing?

[ila]

Originally Posted by johndowe

.......Never used unix or linux, why? one word; compatibility.

Unix and his big brother xenix are now unfortunately almost obsolete by non use........

I like unix and I've used it with some very specialized software programs. It behaved so much better than Windows and even DOS. In fact I don't ever recall having my system crash when using unix. I'm afraid you're right though, John. Unix is on the way out.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

It's nice to see that even here people figure out that i'm ALWAYS right.

But seriously...

Although i never used Unix or Xenix i know they were very good os'es, they were of the dos command line types and were doomed to extinction when GUI os came to be.

The reason win is so prevalent everywhere isn't because it's so great, it's mostly because when win95 came out microsoft spent so much money promoting and over selling it that every layman tought there was nothing better or even anything else, and now we're stuck with mediocrity.

Sad isn't it?

JohnDowe.

[sesame]

Johndowe,
Why do you say that unix is going down? Linux is unix based and its going up! Most of the serious servers in the world use Linux.

I will answer the rest soon enough.

[sesame]

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html

I was very much inspired by this Wandel guy. He is a geek from your place, yes, Canada. He completed many self assigned interesting projects. He converted his obsolete flatbed scanner into a digital camera! Cool!:D

He somehow re-programmed the scanner to take pictures. I am intrigued by this reprogramming part. I think he wrote a new driver software for the scanner. Check out his site. I have read other guys having done this camera thing. One geek submitted a whole thesis on that subject in this PHD!

[johndowe]

Hi there.

I said UNIX was dying not linux, it's like saying dad can't be dying i'm still alive.

JohnDowe.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Read the article, the guy didn't do any programing, or even electronics he only tweeked the mecanics and the optics, but the result is quite impressive.

JohnDowe.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by johndowe

Hi there.

Read the article, the guy didn't do any programing, or even electronics he only tweeked the mecanics and the optics, but the result is quite impressive.

JohnDowe.

Sorry about that. I read those Wandel articles 2 or 3 years ago. So I might have mixed several articles in my mind.

http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=20
This one is about writing drivers.