ZX Time #05 14 декабря 2001

Концепции

Discussion - Multi-tasking and operating systems.

Debate


                            Maxony 'DWT


         Multitasking Operating System.



  To us it's a letter from a certain Maxony,
former Max'a Destroyer'a, former editor of "Amiga News". Part 
of the letter published in the "Mail", and part on the OS - 
here. For conservation "liveliness" I wrote comments

immediately, "on the spot" ...


  M: "What can you say about the new OS?" Oh, nothing! 
"Everything has been said already in far the 90's, when the 
spark has released software is-dos. It is unlikely that there 
was a man who enjoyed this OSes

both OSes. Basically it used as an application program in such
cases as printing text, graphics,
transfer texts from pisyuka at zx and vice versa (this is a 
recently divorced all utilities, as before - only isdos).

The question is, why does not it caught on
Operating System? You might say that
supposedly because that was crappy, and I'll
I say no. The problem is that even
modern zx is not developed on the iron, so
OSes to use ... "


  DWT: I must reveal the secret Maxony.:)
Imagine what Operating System is in
Spectrum! They were even two! BASIC48 and TRDOS! And the 
computer does not have to be hyper-developed in the gland to 
keep in currently running! Operating system (incidentally,

reduction of the OS:)) - is, as can be seen even from the name 
of the system over which transactions are conducted "docking" 
of man and computer, as well as treatment devices.



  M: "Ask anyone why he did not like the use DOS, so even a 
normal user say that they say it slow. And it will be

absolutely right, there just a file into memory
drive - is how much time (and quicker drive can not read), and 
plus fit any drayverki, libraries, etc., and

etc., even though they are small, but still
to drive a fumble necessary, plus if
file is not solid, but from the fragments shorter
good luck.

  Now, many shouting - so hard drive
to be connected. And the fact that the hard drive, even on its 
own 10-Spectrum equivalent (for the money I mean) and

controller will cost a good amount, yes
and hemorrhagic provided to you: these have become de facto 
gut, dropping from more or less Contemporary zx. Well this dick 
with it, say found several artisans and currently zx collected 
on a new motherboard (as much to write funny), well and began 
to gather, collect, collect, well assembled, screw connected

OSes have written, the memory inserted,
let the application run, it's all
Wildly brakes. Well, not z80 coping with multiple tasks. He 
coped with odnoyto crappy. Well, God bless him, put another 
cool percent, the choice of now there are not great 
intel-compatible, 68x000, PPC (z80 more powerful in accounting

not worth taking because of their backwardness,
and generally z80 now in phones and typewriters pose). "


  DWT: Again forced to discover the secrets
Maxony:). Imagine that the Z80 put into the phone (or rather, 
the automatic number detectors) more years commercials a decade 
ago, when the Spectrum was triumph throughout the world. And 
it's not because Z80 is fit only for typewriters:).

This emphasizes its functional
raznogrannost generated by the flexibility
Architecture! This is no i8080, which does not have half the 
advantages of Z80. 

  At the expense of more powerful z80. Why do
they are retarded? And who ever gave you the right to judge 
about this? Did you ever seen the new processors Zilog'a at 
work? Think no.


  On the hard drive. Spectrum is not needed
dvadtsatigigabaytovy screw. He is quite
enough for 80-100 meters. Find me a screw
to 100MB for the price of ten Spectrum ...


  M: "Well placed, and nurse re pererazveli. Blin, all - quick 
application run, and I wanted a normal schedules, and n! # $% 
u, come again something fasten and think, well, damn, in short, 
did the graphics card, well Shoot all the works, but now most

thing: open your eyes - and what we see? We have on the table 
is one of the three or pISYuK or MaC or Amiga, but only

terrible, because themselves were doing:) well, and most
important start counting the money ... Think
even the optimists are figured into that
pour out these things fun ... "


  DWT: the light will be mi, amigo, or
maximum only in cases where the relevant processors (and even - 
unlikely). I do not appear something like these three,

if used as a CPU for example
eZ80 ...


  M :"... But those who sit on the zx, money
not even enough for a floppy disk, and you damn ...
This reminds me of a story with a general
sound'om (can not name both written
so I'm sorry, just do not remember)
as he stands there in St. Pete? I do not know
as now, but earlier and asked for 40 bucks
this is for what? For Pagani player mods ?..."


  DWT: Speak so do not ramble! Again, who gave you the right to 
judge of General Sound? You do not spent a dime to develop and 
then implement this project. Yes, probably prices are high, but 
I'm sure that it is not due to the fact that the authors have 
chosen to become millionaires, but because they want to

fill exactly the amount they
spend to produce the sound card.


  M :"... Yes, damn it, for 15-30 bucks you can
A600 purchase and believe it to fashion
are steeper and opportunities out there where
zx steeper and even games serezney and memory
there is 1 metr, and screw back bez problem
tseplyaetsya and modem, and Vse that is necessary, and
samoe glavnoe that nikakie wire nigde
DO NOT fall ... "


  DWT: And it says this spektrumist? He calls on all types do 
not spend more money on the Spectrum, but simply buy no one 
needs today Amigo 600? .. Maxony, if you say

that it is ready for thirty bucks to throw
Spectrum in a landfill, replacing it with a little
who need the Amiga, then you are not only
spektrumist, but a traitor!


  M :"... A GS-zx is an extra pile of wires kotorye imeyut 
osobennost chip and give each other interferences 
proyavlyayuschiesya to normal for Spektruma veschi - sbrose ... 
" 


  DWT: If everything is going to gently, then
this is possible and inevitable.


  M: "And you think, but DO NOT for you #%$'' Subscribe
wait posle each zavisona, Overload
com? .. "


  DWT: I do not think that Spectrum long restart:). Glory 
Sinclair, not pisyuke sitting on ...



  M :"... If uchest frequency of spontaneous reset, then I 
think of camping and'!'@ prichem techenii in a couple of hours, 
and DO NOT budet one new nurse pererazvodit,

it tries to anyone! th DO NOT need, seychas Vse
only delaetsya grandmother, and grandmothers DO NOT
Here x! th zarabotaesh. And what samoe obidnoe to such zx gs 
predlagaetsya tueva hucha just pay grandmother. Moral of the 
fable sey as follows:



  - People! You yavlyaetes polzovatelyami
the most unique companies in the mire;


  - Operatsionka only pomozhet peredelat move vashego Spektruma 
on mussornik; " 


  DWT: At the expense of paragraph one agrees. A
Here at the expense of second ... Maxony, you think, I divorce 
all the fuss is about OS only to "alter move

on the trash? ".. I'm sorry for you ...


  M: "- Novoe zhelezo uskoryaet exit
failure vashego zx (If the vypolneno it in
RESIDENCE navesok, and this is a 90 protsentov so
and Apartment belongs);


  - Raduytes the biggest prog -
2 diskety;


  - Raduytes trdos that is
ROM, and the plug DO NOT have to be shipped;


  - Zabeyte at temu OS and zhivite as any
chem DO NOT happened;


  - He dayte genialnomu prevratitsya in
chudovische with drop-down provodopodobnymi
guts; "


  DWT: keep silent ...


  M: "And naposledok I want to ask a question
vsem chitatelyam this gazety zachem you
operatsionka need, eh? He slepoe it
podrazhanie bolee powerful platform? Lo!
bolee moschnye platform bez operatsionki
DO NOT will cost, because it from them and Apartment belongs. 
AND voobsche, enough of this temy - it unto me

kazhetsya nadoela order ... "


  DWT: You bored with this topic just because you do not 
understand what they mean. No one computer can do without the 
OS, as I pointed out in the beginning. If you do not believe

opening any primer ... Sorry, book
about computers ... OS at the Spectrum is, but
it is, I repeat, does not meet its current opportunities!


  M :"... Lo Vse you n !@@#$ b whale, and
how to dela, then you no matter what DO NOT capable of. In 
luchshem sluchae demo versiyu release mozhete, and into four 
sereznoe so immediately a lot of problem, so nahera 
sprashivaetsya, n !'@## b? You zhe this Spek zagonyaete into 
the grave, yes delayte new software as a traditional metodami 
delali the plug in promezhutke 1994-1998, and Che bad software

was, she came to dazhe pisishniki Spek
play ... "


  DWT: I have even more to say. In the interval
1994-1998, were produced the best
programs for the Spectrum.

  One can not understand - why did you decide that
arguments we exhausts Speck in the grave?
In my opinion, on the contrary ... Damn, begaesh, dobyvaesh 
stuff you write for the sake of diskutiruesh in order to 
interest spektrumistov give us something ... And then wrote some

Maxony, you're saying Speck herded into the pit ... Thank you 
so much: (. 


  M: "Okay, enough demogogiyu breed, I've finished:)"


  DWT: Very happy for you .:)))


  But seriously - before making
statements like "OS Spectrum is not necessary!"
must be at least a little present
imagine what the OS. And Spektrumistom
should be, and then reading Maxony, created
impression that he needed the Spectrum as
goat bayan ...


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