Re: [LUG] BBC Micro anyone anywhere anytime

[Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/05/14 21:34, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2014, Philip Hudson wrote:
>
> > On 17 May 2014 08:21, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > oh the 68000 - if we'd had that rather than the 8088 in the damn IBM 
> > > PC we
> > > wouldnt still be in the 1980's with software!
> >
> > Can I get an amen?
>
> Not from me.
>
> > Anyone else programmed in assembler on both x86 and M680x0? Sheer hell
> > v pure heaven. God I miss the 68K.
>
> No, but I've programmed in C on both. Can't say I noticed any difference.
>
> > The only thing that has held the world back more is of course as we
> > all know the Microsoft OS crudopoly.
>
> Not sure I fully agree with that. Both Apple and MS were doing their 
> thing at the same time (lets say late 80's, early 90's) but MS seemed 
> to have the better marketing and cheaper hardware, and of-course us 
> Brit's didn't even bother to buy British solution(s) either, 
> especially when there was a very good and viable alternative in the 
> emerging business market.
>
> Gordon
Gordon - you didn't notice any difference? The sheer hell of anything 
(data) bigger than 64k on x86 vs 0 problem with M6080x0? Almost every 
program on windows had problems with out of bounds access until windows 
NT came out. I watched that reduce some quite good programmers to tears 
and worse and extend development times by orders of magnitude.
Tom te tom te tom

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