Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/06/23:01:59
Nate Eldredge wrote:
> Gerhard Gruber wrote:
> >
> > Destination: "Jerome Atchison" <jeromeatchison AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> > From: Gruber Gerhard
> > Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 14:39:16 -0500:
> >
> > >I suggest to Merlin to try writting his next program in assembler, because C
> >
> > But than he has to use an assembler. That's cheating. :) But there are a lot
> > of good books about 80x86 assembly programming so you can calculate the byte
> > values needed for a program. :)
>
> But think of all the microcode the Intel engineers wrote, and how much
> you're using that. That's cheating. Okay, so you have to design your
> own CPU, motherboard, hardware, etc. But wait-- think of all the work
> that went into inventing the transistor. You use it-- that's cheating,
> too...
>
> Face it-- you can't do anything all by yourself, so why even try?
> --
To learn..... because the person likes to. There are quite a few reasons to do
something yourself..or at least try to.
Merlin.
>
>
> Nate Eldredge
> nate AT cartsys DOT com
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