krw said:
What a silly comment. DOS is the only stable product ever to come from Microsoft.
That's a bugger isn't it ? It can give so much useful background. I got given my 8051 /
8048 handbook as a present in 1985 and it was a few years old then.
You can use R0-7 if you never absolutely address them as AR0-7.
Why would I need a USB driver for DOS itself ?
And now.
Actually, it didn't come from Microsoft. It came from Digital Reasearch; M$
just brokered the usurious deal with IBM that gave us the 8088 PC and all
the rest.
You'd trust a kid out of Uni to be able to do that ?
Let me tell you, there's a guy I know whose previous job was technical director of Pace microsystems
(he's technical director somewhere else now) , the satellite and cable receiver box people.
Because I was fairly heavily loaded he was asked as a then sideline (before Pace) to write the code for
an app we had. He wanted to use one his favourite Mitsubishi uCs and write it in assembler. I TOLD him
it would be an 80C51 and PL/M. At the end of the project he said "I understand why now".
Read again, this time for comprehension.
Rich said:Actually, it didn't come from Microsoft. It came from Digital Reasearch; M$
just brokered the usurious deal with IBM that gave us the 8088 PC and all
the rest.
krw said:[email protected] says...
Watch the old ones. There were some pretty big errors in them. One
took me weeks to find. Actually, my boss found it when he took a
new databook home to read up on what I was *trying* to do. My copy
had a glaring error in the power saving section. The later copy had
it corrected.
krw said:[email protected] says...
If you're running DOS on your machine. Otherwise you're still
running Windows, with all the crap that entails.
Nope. Applications crash when the OS does.
krw said:
krw said:
krw said:
(he's technical director somewhere else now) , the satellite and cable receiver > box people.
an app we had. He wanted to use one his favourite Mitsubishi uCs and write it in > assembler. I TOLD him it
would be an 80C51 and PL/M. At the end of the project he said "I > understand why now".
He was obviously a crappy assembler programmer with no understanding
of the 8051.
donald said:From link above:
"History
The original 1981 arrangement between IBM and Microsoft was that
_Microsoft_would_provide_ the base product and that both firms would
work on developing different parts of it into a more powerful and robust
system, and then share the resultant code. MS-DOS and PC-DOS were to be
marketed separately: IBM selling to itself for the IBM PC, and Microsoft
selling to the open market. However, at no time did IBM acquire the
ownership of the source code of the operating system for its own PCs."
Robert said:Case in point..Pawn Shops use software to manage their inventory as
well as create reports for the BATF on demand.
Almost all of them $pend thousands of dollars for fancy WinDoze
programs that appear to do a half-way reasonable job, except...the damn
OS crashes more than once a week on a semi-ranDUMB basis.
There are a few that use not-so-fancy DOS programs, some of which
give moer realistic support...and never crash (well, except when the
power goes out).
From link above:
"History
The original 1981 arrangement between IBM and Microsoft was that
_Microsoft_would_provide_ the base product and that both firms would
work on developing different parts of it into a more powerful and robust
system, and then share the resultant code. MS-DOS and PC-DOS were to be
marketed separately: IBM selling to itself for the IBM PC, and Microsoft
selling to the open market. However, at no time did IBM acquire the
ownership of the source code of the operating system for its own PCs."
donald said:
