Thread: Vista

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

hands up those who rememeber when the whole operating system took up less than the first 128 k of the available 640..

I remember when you had to justify the code using multiple bytes to store or manipulate data and also looking at doing binary tranlation across word boundries to compress storage just so you could justify the programme consuming 4KB of RAM on execution and of course the system only had 64KB of RAM to do everything in anyway. To get it to 640KB would have cost over $50,000.

Why did we stop writting in Assembler

Originally Posted by tombraider

Hehe, glad I wasnt first to say it...

Take a look at this!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8

I can't wait to use it at work... they've copied the eye candy rather well. The rest of it's probably same old #$@# different day, but I guess you've got to start somewhere..

Originally Posted by tombraider

Hehe, glad I wasnt first to say it...

Take a look at this!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8

classic! plus 1!

Everybody register with ZDnet/security, and be very afraid. Or Cnet, or Computerworld news, or god only knows how many other security IT sites.

Vista is ME all over again, XP in a tarted up new dress.

Norton AV is not safe, Yellow Storm virus targets only Norton AV, mainly the commercial version at the moment.

MS Office 07 is riddled with security vulnerabilities, IE7 is a sieve, secure as a boy scout tent.

And now there has been threats of a virus attack directly on the Mac system.

I have used Linux for years, and am now about to install Sun Microsystems Solaris 10, as a try out, on a 64 bit server.

Vista? Not on my system, nothing mission critical, nothing in the way of personal data, kept on my machines. Does not matter. I at least can't be "phished over", can't be hacked and used to damage other systems or people. Hell, I just realised, I have become a responsible computer user.

Shorty.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

I remember when you had to justify the code using multiple bytes to store or manipulate data and also looking at doing binary tranlation across word boundries to compress storage just so you could justify the programme consuming 4KB of RAM on execution and of course the system only had 64KB of RAM to do everything in anyway. To get it to 640KB would have cost over $50,000.

Why did we stop writting in Assembler

id brag about having to progam a microbee 16 thats 16 as in 16k of system memory but that wouldnt be my crowning retro glory...

hands up anyone whose programed on punch cards.... (it was a school excersion thing, dad came and then a week later we went back with a shoebox full of cardboard.)

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

hands up anyone whose programed on punch cards.... (it was a school excersion thing, dad came and then a week later we went back with a shoebox full of cardboard.)

Yep. In IITRAN - I had to at Uni of NSW back in 1966 when I was doing a BSc (Tech).

In 1968 we were inputting data directly into the computer with a row of buttons on the front - that was a commercial HP system with 4K - that's right 4K, of memory. In 1969 we got an HP system with 16K and we could input from the front panel OR via punched tape reader. We typed it up on a Teletype (tm) and punched the tape at the same time.

Later in life (early '80s) I was in charge of a computer centre which still used punched cards. Storage was on a Fastrand drum. See http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fastrand.html - that was soon after replaced by conventional mag disk packs.

Ron

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

id brag about having to progam a microbee 16 thats 16 as in 16k of system memory but that wouldnt be my crowning retro glory...

hands up anyone whose programed on punch cards.... (it was a school excersion thing, dad came and then a week later we went back with a shoebox full of cardboard.)

Not quite as old as Ron but used FortranIV at UniNSW through a PDP11 which was about the same size as a domestic fridge, but then so was the printer.


Martyn

so,, yes? no?

gees you guys make it difficult.

so do we upgrade xp?

or do a fresh install?

and if we go with the new install,, can we copy all our files across

will xp office work with vista?

so many questions
so few DX10 games,,