[AccessD] OT - For Arthur

That's fascinating!

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/20/2013 11:58 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> Quote directly from the Wine Wiki:
>
> "...Programs running in Wine act as native programs would, without the
> performance/memory penalties of an emulator..."
>
> In fact Access running under Wine on a Linux computer, runs faster than the
> same application does on the same computer running Windows. Wine developers
> go so far as to say that Access can run on a computer, with a Linux OS that
> the combination of Windows-Access could not run.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:57 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - For Arthur
>
> Cool.  We can run Wine on it and slow it down to the speed of my 1989
> Windows 3.0 system.  Or eschew
> Windows and...
>
> How about we build an UnRaid emulator with a billion SSds,  for a petabyte
> SSD SAN, performing
> Folding at Home in the background?
>
> John W. Colby
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 3/19/2013 8:35 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Hey John:
>>
>> As much as things change they stay the same.
>>
>> Instead of Z80 there is the ARM and ARM A9, instead of tape drives it is
> the
>> Cloud...now the youngsters are writing network and internet drivers,
>> building a NAS, writing their own languages, building server clusters and
> so
>> on...
>>
>> The kids have Raspberry PIs...$25.00 for a computer (friend's son has
> three
>> and is building and testing a network) and for those, really flush, there
> is
>> Parallella, the parallel processing computer for $99.00. (they are sold
> out
>> for a while but I may bite the bullet by next fall):
>>
>>
> https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/692990-introducing-
>> the-99-linux-supercomputer
>>
>> Its all Linux OS of course but to the kids its all easy fun.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:46 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - For Arthur
>>
>> Hmmmm
>>
>> I don't remember the exact day but I built my first computer in 1977.  I
> had
>> a year left in the Navy
>> and the Z-80 was king at that time.  I ordered everything out of
>> advertisements in the back of
>> Popular Electronics.  It was an S100 based system with 32 kbytes of RAM
>> though I only ever got 24K
>> of that working.  It used a cassette tape to load Zapple Basic which took
> 3
>> minutes to load and used
>> 12K  of my 24 K so my program had to fit in the remaining 12K.  There were
>> no programs (that I ever
>> found) so I just wrote my own and used it to play around.  My only I/O was
> a
>> dumb terminal and the
>> cassette.
>>
>> By 1983 I had built my 2nd system, a SBC (Single Board Computer) with CPM
> in
>> ROM, an 80186 processor
>> (full 16 bit internal and external) running at 16 mhz, with 512 KBytes of
>> RAM.  I bought dual 8"
>> floppies for $750, and Turbo Pascal which jump started my programming
>> career.  With a modem, I
>> dialed into BBS all around southern California and downloaded tons of
>> programs.  I ended up owning a
>> $16K graphics terminal that was an engineering prototype from Megatek
> which
>> I used Turbo Pascal to
>> write the drivers for and learned programming along the way.
>>
>> The rest as they say is history.  Thirty years later!!!  OMG this must be
> an
>> old boys club eh?
>>
>> John W. Colby
>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>>
>> On 3/19/2013 1:18 PM, John Clark wrote:
>>> Arthur, I'd meant to send this to you on Saturday, I believe it was,
>> but...
>>>     
>>> I'd recently started...again...reading Rocky's book, "From Program to
>> Product..." and upon thumbing through it I found his interview w/you. I'd
>> noticed that, in that interview you'd said you bought your first computer
> on
>> March 15th 1983. It was only a few hours before this anniversary date w/I
>> was reading this, so I thought I'd be clever and with you a happy 30th
>> anniversary!
>>>     
>>> Like I said...just an attempt at being clever...myself, I still had a
> year
>> of HS to complete after that.
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