I remember when

[sesame]

I worked with DOS in my childhood.
I started computing at the last phase of Lotus-123.
Bill Gates had not yet bought Wordstar and Excel.
Windows was yet to come. But Assembly language
& Basic were already goners.

I wonder why did they make us study obsolete languages so hard!!
Morons! What a waste of our time! We could be studying C, C++,
which were on full swing at that era! The Education Dept. is still filled with incompetent, Unimaginative people.

As soon as Bill Gates bought Excel, Wordster and launched Windows with office suite, an invisible war began to get the contenders out of the scene. So, Lotus Suite had to go. MsExcel took it's place. Wordstar became MsWord. Gates bought small programmes like Paint and what not! And DOS experts had nothing else to do but suck thumbs!

Those who stuck with DOS, Basic or C, did so only as a hobby, out of nostalgia for those fine programmes... and labeled themselves as the Old School. The "Brave New World" had no longer any room for outdated technology.

Regarding modern languages, I think Java is here to stay, C++ is still at work beneath the surface. But .Net, magnificent as it is, will be relaced by some new toy out of the sleeve of Bill Gates. He will do this to keep pace with the competition and also for earning another pile of billions. Businessmen dont like it peaceful and stagnant.

[Christine]

I remember my family's first computer, Windows 95

Main uses was paint, pinball and sometimes solitaire

[randolph]

Ah, the good old days!
I started my computer experience punching IBM cards and submitting them to the campus IBM 360. What a pain! Then the lab bought a Digital MINC and a mile high stack of manuals that I was supposed to understand. It had two huge floppy disks and fortran and basic. I was supposed to develop a data base program for our lab data and I had no training in computers! Fortran was horrible, I finally resorted to a customized version of Pascal. My home computer was a TRS80 . Then the IBM PC came out with Word and Excell and compiled basic and computer programming became fun. It was so much easier to program in DOS before Windows, you wrote a program and ran it. Windows made things much more complicated. Then the Internet came along and the world changed. Now everybody has their own secret access to loads of PORN!

[transjen]

I rember when i was very young my dad had a computer is was a Comadore 64
Jerseygirl Jen

[sesame]

Do you know that those bulky 486 computers can run Windows 3.1 or an early version of Linux with flair. It can even surf the internet! I know its totally impractical, thats why they end up in trash. But sometimes such an impractical endeavour can be a source of fun. Its just like vintage cars.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by randolph

Then the Internet came along and the world changed. Now everybody has their own secret access to loads of PORN!

Exactly! The majority of home computers are used for entertainment. They run Games, Internet (for email and Porn), play Video CD, DVD and music. I think I have covered all the general uses... Have I not?




Programming, Graphics, Web designing, Video & music editing ... are for boring Pros.

[transjen]

I rember a lot of bozos running around like chicken little screaming Y2K and the end of the world was coming when every computer crashes and massive blackouts and nuclear missles going off. Then midnight on 1/1/00 not a damn thing happend
Jerseygirl Jen

[ila]

Originally Posted by transjen

I rember a lot of bozos running around like chicken little screaming Y2K and the end of the world was coming when every computer crashes and massive blackouts and nuclear missles going off. Then midnight on 1/1/00 not a damn thing happend
Jerseygirl Jen

I remember that. I was heavily involved in emergency planning for a cellular telephone company at that time. It was very thought provoking, to say the least, trying to come up with all possible scenarios. And then the big night and like you said Jen, nothing happened.

[Jenae LaTorque]

Originally Posted by sesame

Exactly! The majority of home computers are used for entertainment. They run Games, Internet (for email and Porn), play Video CD, DVD and music. I think I have covered all the general uses... Have I not?

Programming, Graphics, Web designing, Video & music editing ... are for boring Pros.

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Nope, you forgot eBaying. Almost everyone I know with a computer uses it to shop and/or sell on eBay. And quite a few use if for other shopping as well. But that may just be because we all live out here in the boondocks of Wyoming.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Sesame, there is nothing that canot be done with ASM that can be done with other languages, but some things,fvery few things are better the way they are programmed now, like web pages with HTML, XML, Perl, Java, JavaScript, and laymen do not program operating systems, games, or any applications, programmers do, and they are geeks, personally i am a cpu tech and we too are geeks, and object programing is the problem with programming today, everybody is too lazy to put in the effort so they take the easy path of object programing, which is required to symplify web page design, but not to program games or any application that runs directly from the o.s. (like games, text editors, ETC.).

Assembler which is assembled (similar to compiled) to machine language which is the native tongue of the processor, no interpretors or code libraries are required to run it, almost, it does need the o.s. and all the drivers etc. and it is so much more versatile than any other language the only limits of ASM are the limits of the computer it is designed to run on, contrarily to other "evolved" languages, that supports ALMOST everything programmers need, or more precicely what the programers of the language tought the users of their language would need, but what if you want to include something that the designers of the language you are using didn't program any support for? What do you do? You wait for the next version of the language? You could, but in "C" you can program in ASM to make your missing routines, ASM who knew?

ASM is the ultimate programming language, but it is not for the faint of heart, the lazy or second rate programmers, it is for true programers that are willing to put in the effort, who know their computers, who understand how their computer works and how to make it sing instead of making it stutter like microsoft, and most softwre company today, LAZY, LAZY, LAZY.

Got carried away again.

JohnDowe.

[DSL]

I remembered i should have stayed away from that last drink.

[johndowe]

Hi there.

I remember that this was the start up screen of my cpu.

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JohnDowe.