Re: OT - 68K Cross-compiler up for download

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On Mar 22, 3:40 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:

> I said to Brian Staples who was Microsoft's rep on the COMPSERVE support
> forum back in those pre-Windows and pre-Internet days that Windows would

heh :) I remember the big hoopla when CIS changed over from
xxxxxx.xxx@compuserve.com to real email addresses. I was living in
Australia at the time, though.

> never catch-on. By mid-1992 I had abandoned MS-DOS and was already playing
> catch-up writing Windows 3.1 applications.

... and by 1994 I was writing VxDs and reverse-engineering
undocumented protected-mode interrupt services in Chicago (the OS
beta, not the city).

> I was also already peeking into the windows and the boxcars then and just
> didn't realize it.

Comrade, I think you misunderstand: you and I are now in the boxcars
looking out. We're on our way to become soylent green.

> It is that late-night feeling of emotion and "programmer's high" that

That feeling is hard for modern youth to understand. In fact you'll
see my thread about a book I'm writing on the IIc (as in, using a IIc
to write it). The book in question is a book on engineering written
for kids in the year 6-10 range at school, designed to offer hands-on
projects and answers to the question "why should I be interested in
this boring math stuff".

(I have written several "regular" engineering books and am looking to
migrate into the middle/high school arena as part of my grand master
plan for the next 5 to 15 years of my life).