Sujet : Re: New WiFi adapter
De : c186282 (at) *nospam* nnada.net (c186282)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.miscDate : 07. Jun 2025, 06:25:31
Autres entêtes
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On 6/5/25 1:59 AM, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 18:02:19 -0400, c186282 wrote:
On 6/4/25 3:37 PM, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 01:14:15 -0400, c186282 wrote:
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Remember all the great IBM-PC/BIOS routines ?
Made it EASY to write full-screen editors. You had to have the
"Technical Reference Manual" to know all that stuff, however I did
have that ....
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And everyone felt compelled to write an editor...
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GOOD !
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There WERE a lot of them early in PC-dom ... some were simple, some
ambitious, some evolved into better things.
I suppose it was better than reading the Dragon book and deciding to write
a compiler.
Ha Ha .. I *never* considered myself a good compiler-writer.
That goes beyond science, kinda into 'art'. MIGHT write a
fair FORTH compiler, but ......
Today's compilers are GENIUS. The optimizations are beyond
belief.
WHEN 'AI' can better that ... well ... the human end of
the computer biz is pretty much over.