- God speed you legend!
- What a comprehensive extension!!
I love the syntax for numbers. AT&T style was always easiest for me to read.
0xH? Ugh!
- About time. I was going to do some Dev on that system. Was some time ago. Devs were so toxic I sold the Jag...
- I think it is rare. I had that keyboard in my hands too. Did not know what it was. Then I got the terminal, and saw the keyboard port is just a 1/4 audio jack.
Doh! Wrong order error.
What is kijiji?
- Oh my gosh! This brings back memories!
My first real Internet machine was a 386/25, no 387 as it was an SX model CPU.
Windows 3.11
Winsock Extensions
14.4 modem
Number Nine VGA (wish I had kept that! It could do tricks with EGA, TV and such) running a 1024x768 interlaced display. Yes, turn the contrast down, and life was pretty good.
And get this:
5, count em, 12345 Megabytes of RAM!
1 on mainboard, 4 in some slot or other.
Now, 5 gave one the advantage of being able to run some programs that required 8 megabytes They would run terribly, if they ran at all, because disk thrashing, but running was better than not, so yay!
And I would run my copy of Netscape and off to the races we go!
- This was my first serious Windows environment!
Got my MCP on NT 3.51 and ran quite a lot of higher end software. And 3.51 was a solid OS, with the graphical shell customizable to a high degree. You could make a damn cool looking desktop.
- Yeah, it was a good optimization effort.
My preference was to work in cycles. Many systems have a timer one can use to get the cycle counts. There isn't one on a stock Apple 2. Many cards have the PIA chip, 6522, which does have two timers, though they are only 16 bit.
Or, a quick hand timing gets fairly close. On that, the only real difficulty is finding a task that scales well with our perceptual slowness.
- Same. Watching high res 60fps YT video on a crt is amazing!
- I still love a good CRT and can often fix them. I like their speed, and I love the glow
A good plasma set can be a compromise and that is the family TV right now
OLED glows well, but I am really hoping we get LED for supermarket bright displays that are not so delicate or susceptible to burn in.
- In high school, a physics teacher once had a play on percussive maintenance. I call it impact encouragement. Or when using a hammer, linear encouragement, but I digress...
He held a glitchy TV by one side 6 inches in the air. Went on at length about the physics of it too. All sorts of BS, and then he dropped it!
#BAM!
Perfect picture after that! And I mean exemplary! Was weird. That set performed better than the others for years! At least two
- More
And for a time, there were a few ways one could more fully exploit the hardware. The non 68K processors or at least one was buggy. Problems with JMP type instructions landing a guy in places that were too difficult to recover from.
Of course, there were convoluted ways it could get done and a lot of gatekeeping surrounding all of that.
I remember it being such a difference J was stunned right out of any interest in the machine! All of us early 8 bit people would just disassemble things and the magic was right there for the reading!
On the Jag? Sure! So long as you held your nose and did it anyway, ignoring cries from "those people" who probably had a bit more into the Jag than most would end up doing.
Today, I bet it is like most other scenes. If so, have fun! I think the Jag is an interesting machine and it has some untapped potential.
Or... it did. Perhaps all is known today. I don't know!
Lol