18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
7:38 p.m.
True Magnus.
However C and Assembler are only two of about 150 computer languages.
They are the A to Z, so to speak, and have a set order, like the numbers 123...n-1.
Some people are so obsessed by Number and Letter sequences, that is all they do.
Like chasing pi
Pythagoras established a complete religion on a simple Triangle.
In the beginning Unix recognised a string of character terminated by a null character.
And the standard io was a keyboard and display, and it was ASCII not extended.
I do not think much has changed, except we make it a lot harder to distinguish between
these simple beginnings and now.
There are two basic kinds of operatives:
The What-if kind and the How-to kind
The What-if kind like the spread sheet and play games with truth tables
The How-to kind like to build the tools for the What-if kind.
The What-if kind want to want to build the world.
The How-to kind want to print it out as "hello world"
both are obsessions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program
Regards and rosuccess
Justin
---- Magnus Olsen wrote:
Some part are optimze in asm in ros. Rember if u
coding right
asm is faster that any other langues. BitBlit optimze in some part
was done in asm. If any one feel some part can be optimze in asm
then do it. But we need also the C function so it can compile on other
platforms.
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Why all the excitement?
Who uses assembler for serious anything these days?
Ok in my day I used debug.exe because it came with DOS.
Now chip sizes are so large and processors so fast it would be a joke.
Today I would use AWK.exe, and if I needed to get tight assembler, compile
it with
TAWK.
or Mawk.
Then if I were mad enough, hand craft out the redundency, or write another
in AWK
program to do it.
You will get more Wow for your effort.
If anybody from ros is really in need of assembler then something is sus.
Regards and rosucceed
Justin
---- Redefined Horizons wrote:
> Wow! Great news!
> Now let me ask about volunteering to help with the project. I'd like to
get
> some experience programming in assembly
language and/or machine code.
> Is there any need for this on the ReactOS project? Can I start on some
> simple assembly language programming tasks for ReactOS and have someone
that
> can guide me through the tough spots?
> Let me know if I can help in this area.
> Scott
>
> On 10/17/05, KJKHyperion wrote:
> >
> > Redefined Horizons wrote:
> >
> > > [1] Is ReactOS built on a Unix core, or is it a new operating
> > > sytem from the ground up?
> >
> > ReactOS is all-original, written from the ground up as a clone of the
> > Windows design
> >
> > > [2] Can you dual boot with ReactOS and a Linux operating system like
> > > Debian? If you can, is there a
place where I can find instructions
on
> > > how to do so?
> >
> > yes, see
> >
>
> > [3] Does an application that runs on Microsoft Windows have to be
> > ported before it can be run on ReactOS?
>
> No
>
> > Can I try installing the program to see how it works?
>
> Yes
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