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<blockquote data-quote="td03-5" data-source="post: 82836" data-attributes="member: 188069"><p>Well it's like this chaps - you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours said the modern programmer to the hardware maker. So the programmers write ever more bloated code so the hardware makers can sell ever faster machines with bigger memory and hard drives! And the salesmen can persuade the users they need the latest gizmo in their software but it needs a more powerful machine to run it.</p><p></p><p>I remember the delight I felt when I produced a Z80 machine code version of a program written originally in compiled pascal. It was for cp/m 2.2 and the program produces a printed or text file calendar for the entered year. It does not use the system calendar (there wasn't one on cp/m 2.2!) it uses an algorithm I got from Dragon user magazine (yes, had one of those). Don't know what the pascal program used, all I did was mimic its output using my own code. The pascal program was not big at 16K but mine was only 2K. I used a Z80 macro assembler (and later transferred it to MS-DOS using an excellent shareware Assembler called A86) and learnt to code macros from an equally excellent book the title and author I've forgotten.</p><p></p><p>Sorry none of this has anything to do with the DB. Probably helps to explain why I enjoy playing with it though.</p><p></p><p>Never had a spectrum. Started with the practical electronics EduKit using the RCA 1802 micro. Kit was designed by the same man who did the Compukit UK 101 the rather unfortunately named Dr A Burk.</p><p></p><p>73 & drappy heaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="td03-5, post: 82836, member: 188069"] Well it's like this chaps - you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours said the modern programmer to the hardware maker. So the programmers write ever more bloated code so the hardware makers can sell ever faster machines with bigger memory and hard drives! And the salesmen can persuade the users they need the latest gizmo in their software but it needs a more powerful machine to run it. I remember the delight I felt when I produced a Z80 machine code version of a program written originally in compiled pascal. It was for cp/m 2.2 and the program produces a printed or text file calendar for the entered year. It does not use the system calendar (there wasn't one on cp/m 2.2!) it uses an algorithm I got from Dragon user magazine (yes, had one of those). Don't know what the pascal program used, all I did was mimic its output using my own code. The pascal program was not big at 16K but mine was only 2K. I used a Z80 macro assembler (and later transferred it to MS-DOS using an excellent shareware Assembler called A86) and learnt to code macros from an equally excellent book the title and author I've forgotten. Sorry none of this has anything to do with the DB. Probably helps to explain why I enjoy playing with it though. Never had a spectrum. Started with the practical electronics EduKit using the RCA 1802 micro. Kit was designed by the same man who did the Compukit UK 101 the rather unfortunately named Dr A Burk. 73 & drappy heaming. [/QUOTE]
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