On-Line #20 21 января 1996

IS-DOS     ZXNet

Mosaic - Reflections on the IS-DOS'e. Small hit-parade jokes. The idea of creating a single network Speccy.

                MOSAIC


MDM 496-8508; 12:00 / 21:00
ZX Net: 095:1641684 .. 4968508

     dmitry@oldman.zx.msk.ru


   Now that readers have decided to talk about the iS-DOSe 
(ON-LINE 18 and 19) allow to express their views on the matter. 
Especially, do not Recently I bought a "profiles", and then CP 
/ M has something in common with the infamous iS-DOSom. 


   I'm not going to talk about "WAREHOUSE" e, modem support, 
and similar bredyatine. As for the editor ... Many of his 
praise ... Well, I do not know. I have seen and iS-DOS Editor 
and "WRITE SYSTEM" on CP / M. Yes, really powerful, but ZXWord 
2.5 + as it sweeter. Probably, if I need to format the text, 
say, or to connect two of the text so that one was located in 
the left column, and the other on the right, I'll use one of 
these editors, but for normal text writing, I certainly would 
not consider ZXWord - almost instantaneous load (and load editor

I have very often), the brilliant simplicity of management,
yes, and bugs all the familiar, which is also important.


   About PICASSO can say one thing - yeah Who needs it?!
Its main advantage is the ability to create images larger than 
the screen. Well, if someone really needed a picture and he was 
able to write a procedure to use it in their program, so create 
it by using the same "ART STUDIO" he is not difficult.



   No, I'm not against these and other programs, and certainly 
not I think that all genius is already written. But allow me to 
do to create steep text or image, or, if already on

that matter, the music editors so necessary to create
new disk storage systems. Why, in fact, fuss? What does DOS has 
to SOFTu? That, when using the iS-DOSa Our SPECTRUMa memory 
itself or the rate increases CPU?



   We have a TR-DOS, and how many would have had no glitches 
and inconveniences, but I am sure that they have and will be 
much less than that any other disk system! Although, if only 
because a TR-DOS written a huge number of programs that allow 
these same inconvenience to crawl. And anyway, who needs to 
SPECTRUMe any there windows, subdirectories, and the rest 
labuden so bindaskapil users on other platforms. In principle, 
I do not mind the "windows", it's beautiful, but really the 
system of subdirectories can compensate for a flawed, in my 
opinion, the system heap any loadable driver, COM files, and 
the rest of the nightmare. SPECTRUM and good its brilliant 
simplicity! No need to convert "SPECCY" at IBM, think of BC, 
corvettes, SEARCH, and about where they now find themselves! If 
someone pulls on the IBM, and SPECTRUM he bought "on time" 
"From a lack of funds", that is their problem ... Yes there to 
argue: the very fact that no one wants to write programs for 
iS-DOS, already said that the system is not supported by 
programmer people and, therefore, doomed to extinction and the 
end of the bazaar! 

                ° ° ° °


   One of the rooms of the newspaper, I wrote a few lines of 
brilliant programming tools - turboassembler MASM. So I was 
literally bombarded with questions about this. For a start, I 
would like to point out that I MASM to create 128 by any side 
is not cling and, especially, the master of his'm not. 
Therefore, I Several expressed surprise me a complaint about 
incorrect operation is not known how did you obtain RAW 
versions of the assembler. Wait for the official version (and 
it already occurred), then catch the bugs. And with them, not 
me, but to the authors. By the way, about the glitches. I 
nearly fell off the chair (or rather, a little out of the chair 
falling out) when I said that MASM does not handles command 
DEFM! Try, nevertheless, to answer: correct, not process. And 
why should he (MASMu) is necessary. It is enough that the team 
DEFB expanded! So if you type: DEFB 1, # 02, "We must think",% 
10101010 - This line will be compiled absolutely correct! The 
same thing happened in TASM 128. If You do not know, it is 
interesting, but what you actually do in MASMe? There are no 
pictures ... 

                ° ° ° °


   Until I heard rumors that someone sent me a pile of materials
for print, but I do not want to print them. Well, I do not know 
... If so I refuse to print anything (for example, an article 
on incorrect work of the new processor for IBM), then honestly 
say to the author: I'm sorry, they say, but you're not at that 
address requested ... If some stuff is really lost in the 
network (or in my drives) please: call me or one of the editors 
personally. 

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                     dmitry@oldman.zx.msk.ru



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   Read LIME TREE N 9. Well told you-I, it was cool
Newspaper!


   I liked the article about the telephone.


   Would be desirable to add that it is quite natural. Closure
between the strands cable ...


   You remember how in Moscow have failed trolleybus lines
because of the watered saline solutions of roads? It was at -2 
° C! A that will be in the spring, when all this muck will flow 
into the ground? Here even imported cables will not withstand. 
So, Lord, remember my word for spring, when the telephone fins 
stick together. 

                ° ° ° °


   That such catchwords added to the custom dictionary 
publishing system, which is processed by "ON-LINE": 

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indicators distinguished filing bugs outgoing perish tolerated 
download register unfinished zaglyuchennuyu fun knocked drowning

recaptured glyuchkov Spaniards nerelotsiruema obchelsya ■ 
podzagruzok badsome enemy Denis glitches glitch spektrumist 
buggy Arzamas turn riders insolent download washed away

spoiled dobreesh pluck freebie uploading downloading 
entertainment and join her watch Paul slazit № loving stupid 
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Palycha serge Serge Pavlovich variometer aileron drag ¤ 
supersonic flying Aviapribor reaching is seen return Hacker 
awkward grasp Spectrum matured scroll demodulation ring-fence 
designed unpaid coordinator decreasing inappropriate zonal 
coordinator ban Yefim ¤ secret nenazoylivo ihnimi fellow 
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negotiate a sysop relieve gested sucks server zasiraya old men 
ruin Mon SEC Thurs ■ originated lone citywide settle hakkerskih 
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intelligible cuts off plucked sysop fuses urban hesitated Vasek 
releases send regularly taking will put cores hit ¤ Trolleybus 
polit drain stand stick together pro modem praise dearer prefer 
importantly flawed genius programmer loadable nightmare 
accumulated sitting stole look through press conferences keep 
agreeing intro ¤ earn selling distributors reset the imprint 
hem please be unforgettable argued briefly foresaw reader 
platform promised not likely to catch the original number cling 
encountered cords iron Funny flying touch Remember will bring 
squeals of dreaming aphorisms otsohli foolish soldering is 
concerned about the scorpions la economists digitization 
placheven minimal battery