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Subject: [opendos] Tired of long subject lines...
Message-ID: <19970205.172130.4471.3.chambersb@juno.com>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 20:19:30 EST
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>> Since programs that are FS specific don't make sense on
>> other FS's then there is no need for them. For example. 
>> Norton Disk
>Still, you can't expect every user to know that. Remember 
>that programers are just a small part of the computer 
>users community. What about all those ladies in banks, 
>post offices, etc? (no offense!)

My sister worked in a bank, and she took a class on how to use Office :)

[snip - big time]
>> have a 19k mouse driver.  My friend's mouse driver is 
>>9k.  They are both dated from the same time.  Why is 
>>mine 19k?  Probably because it is written in C! (It is, 
>>I've examined it's memory wastage in memory with debug).
>Where's the golden art of writing big apps in 
>assembler...?

Check out Peter's PMode Homepage (Yahoo has it listed, I'm at home right
now so can't check the url), he's using a DOS extender called DOS32 that
was designed for 32bit ASM and is working on a game ENTIRELY in ASM.  The
last I saw, it was around 600k :) :)

...Chambers