Re: Apple II humor!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

: 1.  What is /r$ ?
:     a) "slash r string"
:     b) "slash r dollar sign"
:     c) a subdirectory of the root directory
:     d) Rich Salz

a.  "slash r string."

: 2.  Do people wonder why you keep using "Applesoft" as a synonym for 
:     BASIC?

Yes.

: 3.  Do you despise assemblers, preferring instead to code your programs 
:     byte by byte in machine language with a debugger?

No, I like assemblers, particularly Merlin.  But I despise compiled high-level
languages.  I want to be able to write program fragments, test them, and
hot-patch them if they don't work.

: 4.  Do you only use three registers when programming because "if A, X,
:     and Y are good enough for the 6502, then by golly they're good enough
:     for me"?

You mean some machines have more than A, X, and Y???!!!  8-)

: 5.  Do you still have floppies that have write-protect holes on both 
:     sides, but are labeled "single sided"?

Bunches of 'em

: 6.  Are you uncomfortable with the words "interrupt," "timer," or
:     "multitasking"?

Uh, yeah.

: 7.  Do you have "Beneath Apple DOS"?

I wish!  Anybody know where I can find a copy?

: 8.  Do you wonder why any Gentleman would need more than 64K?

No, I wonder why any gentleman would need more than 48k!

: 9.  Are you distrustful of lowercase?

Only when programming.

: 10. Do you have "alias CATALOG ls" in you .login?

I didn't until I read this...but I do now 8-)

: 11. Do you despise anything that is not overtly user-hostile?

Hey, now...my Apple is a lot less user-hostile than MS-DOS...

: 12. Wonder why & doesn't do the same thing in UNIX?

Written by the uninitiated?  "&" in Applesoft almost never does the same thing
twice!  Must've been someone whose only experience with the & vector was
RENUMBER.

: 13. Think ^D in UNIX is a DOS command?

Hmmmmm...

: donald@Nerdshack.com
: Apple II user since 1983

HAH!  I first started on the Apple ][ in 1981, shortly after a bout with a
TRS-80 Model I/Level II/16k machine...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(loved the test.  Maybe we should finish it up...!)
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