KrNews #14 22 сентября 2000

ZX vs PC

Glance - On the PC and not only ...

         On the PC and not only ...



   VTS: Here I just got pisyuchniki, and in the Forum (on an 
Internet) someone it could hit on Speck. In general, long ago, I

mylilsya such an article tisnut. So
that hold. :-)

   As the saying goes, "it is all purely my
personal opinion. ";)



   VTS'2k

                  Smear, smear,

                   and dirty here.


                                 Us.

                   (In the sense that we, VTS)



   So, first of all, I say that I have
Houses have okromya favorite Speck quite
I disliked the HRC. In which I did
manage to poke a soldering iron. The configuration is such that 
what I needed under Specific tasks (including prospective): 
5x86-133 (AMD-P75)-PCI / 8 Mb/254 Mb / / 5.25,3.5 / VGA-512k/TV 
(restructuring sweeps VGA TSR-driver) / DOS-7.10. A These tasks 
consist in programming (I had the good fortune to enter the 
2204) and in the near future-yuzanii P-CAD'a. And also a closer 
look (which I'm no radio engineer PCAD'a?). So, all this case, 
firstly, very pernicious impact on the psyche. During the 
session, I had to communicate with both PCs and with

people who had not seen except HRC nothing more. So, thinking 
about the meaning of living in a world littered with PCs at all 
downed me astray, and I began to write Speck's "dying". 
However, the time came to the rescue portion of software in as 
newspapers and demos (+ Dentro to tsts'000) led me to my 
senses:) And now I have the same optimistic mood (Which spoils 
the only Fucking Army) and absolutely no cavities!



   Note that the list of tasks NO toys
etc. Labuda. However, in the game and I did
very little play. However, it characterizes a purely 
professional approach to HRC (though in my opinion, the money I 
spent, it is not worth what I got - that is, it's not really 
professional, it can even be considered a mistake). Ie for me, 
as for most normal Professionals, PC is piece of iron, a 
soulless tool, a piece of iron with a specific piece of 
software, customized to the specific (my professional) goals. 
More from him nothing required, as these same grind

problem. How many MHz, MB, and what there
percent - in principle, on the drum. If
Spekovsky Layout was abruptly, and his
files would take the plant, and pascal
would be (c) Borland, not Hi-Soft, I would
mi nor in life is not needed. So, in
this form I am not against HRC because nothing
another in Russia is not seen (sorry, Mac is not enough). Ie 
choose something and not from which, as work to do here and now.



   In all other manifestations of PCs is not
pulls. In principle, all the rest "
it really is and no! Yes, in every
cellar, is unknown what the money bought, is the degree to 
print bills. In fact, the use all the resources of this 
technique can only professionals who work where? correctly, in 
the public sector. And what We also have a scope? Shadow? There 
are components not needed. So, this area draws

money out of our pockets and buy some crappy nid 
plotter-shmoter for 200 thousand rubles. (With the salary of 
employees 600r.) For the officials is quite familiar

business (interest-ops that ...), but we are
glad that HRC rulez, and by spectrum we have
nostalgia ... And the money in the meantime of
countries are funneling (OUR money) ...

   So, where can use the PC?
Everywhere? Schaz! To begin with put it on
Balance ... Set? And do not forget
"Licensed software" ... And the pants still have? A pull, bribe 
... No? You work on the 'new Russian'? True, anyone need these 
brownish-crimson ... 


   Above all, even in professional
applications it makes sense to think about
alternative (bad thing is that the alternative simply do not 
know). For example, it is necessary be an idiot to put the PC 
on a TV studio or video editing (where most place Amiga and 
SGI). If this is what nid Tmutarakanka village, there are 
cheaper Spectrum cost. The publisher is the

McHugh place, but somewhere in the nid NII will not interfere
"Cray" or "Elbrus";)


   Okay, finished with a professional
sphere.

   So, my personal impression of the HRC in
Compared with spectrum (I mean quality work, reliability and 
stability, in the first place) that at the time DOS'a was still 
tolerated, but so specific smell. Damn Kalitkin

with his melkomyagkie finally overthrew the groundbreaking 
programming, and now rolled down the race "who is worse?" But 
in general, and Overall I'm even more firmly established in 
mind, that the PCs - shit. But, unfortunately, many

of us will have for a long time there poking around at work and 
tuition ... 


   Well, then, now nonprofessional
sphere. This is a home computer and intermittent with amateur 
movement. In the latter highlights the hackers (as done on the 
PC, in principle, nothing) and, most little makers. 
Nevertheless, if we express the number as a percentage, the 
results are abysmal (especially for makers, because a hacker - 
it still sounds proudly, and can work well can be

will grab). And makers like fuck and no one needs. But they
could form the basis of domestic
(Wide, not a "pocket") computer
industry. Moreover, under the "makers" I do not podruzamevayu 
People a la "I love Pascal (Incidentally, you know that Pascal 
is designed to train the basics of structural programming 
(although you will sometimes see that the author (Niklaus 
Wirth) wrote), and for programming the same Wirth has 
developed, for example, Modula-2), and those who really can 
make yourself a complete software product. I do not

talking about hard-maker (here the general utter Down) ...


   So, what is the home computer? All
immediately scream - Break games, game! Broken off, in fact it 
is not you think so, but just want you to think so. Let's look 
at the comparison to Speck. What, a game? Yes, and who typed 
LOAD ""? AND that no one tried to collect the simplest

PRINT, INPUT etc? Speck from power predisposes to programming. 
And it is on BASIC'e. This is the best language learning. (For 
younger children age is best suited to the Logo turtle graphics 
(Russian) and learning the basics of writing a professional 
software - pascal) BASIC suit everyone ordinary users and 
allows them to easily build any algorithm. Tell me, Many 
pts'shniki have at least some ideas about programming? Mda,

those that were in school, probably exhausted and some BASIC'om 
pascal'em. But home was told only a few ... But in

Speke things have gone further-Z80 has a
excellent command system, and approximately
for the year can learn to speak the ACME
- Where such a species? This, incidentally, is typical of for 
ex'USSR. None of of bourgeois book does not extol autocode (aka 
ACM). None of Intel's percent are not bragging that basic

software that it is
Autocode. A "Elbrus", outpacing Merced
over his head, puts it,
as taken for granted. And this
all the mass we bend, thanks to whom? We were fools, 
bureaucrats devils, and Yankees headed Klim melkomyagkie 
Kalitkin. 


   Yes, and iron? Yes, half the people could hold a soldering 
iron, these glorious traditions are still on the radio (which, 
incidentally, is also now the case is not so hot, and I think 
the reasons are the same) ... Everything was just to idiocy - 
soldered, wrote prog, and it works!



   If someone has not figured out what I want to say that it 
was amateur movement - main purpose home computer. Only

this case, you can actually talk about
Computer literate, and only if
You can talk about the beginnings of the Information Society.


   And that, for some 5-10 years, all amateur movement, 
including and Repeater, all that was the basis of highly 
qualified personnel in the industry (especially want to 
emphasize MIC) all that is acquired by back-breaking toil of 
generations of Russian school-all cut down by the root of some 
thoughts with Kwaku (added to the above goats and fools). No 
one collects the receiver itself (even more so the detector 
...), nobody does not "walkie-talkie" radio control car on, not 
braze with garlands running from Speke, etc. etc. 


           WHERE we roll??


   But all this is only half the cases. There
and another side-information
technologies, tales of the coming information society, 
enveloped in Internet (I I think it would be better to say-bound

hands and feet), about kulnosti virtual worlds, ETC.

   Really it's all good. Just not for us to
you. Since all this is great
monitored and controlled. Sometimes
just wonder how well fired
dezy in the internet about the Chechen campaign, forcing the 
military to fuss for their rebuttal (though that would seem, 
ridiculous outright lies). A because it is only a small 
fraction of what can be to make (potentially). A Safety

Nobody thinks (or rather, it is necessary to
Nobody thought).

   The exit is, and again in the amateurs.
This is a network of amateur clubs, ZXNet,
electronic newspapers, magazines and books. This
Network control is impossible. Not only
because it is too diverse (in
Unlike, say, from the Internet on a platform Wintel'98), but 
also because it based on homo sapiens and common

meaning, and there is a huge amount of
feedbacks. In principle, it is
Such a model brings us closer to an information society.


   And what about the virtual worlds of all the hurry
break off, with no real people will die
as a species. You just need to keep balance.
As a concrete example, take
Brain development in children. [This question is not
in my competence, so that zvinyayte for
leym] So, in the process _fizicheskoy_
work begins to develop asymmetry hand (right-handed and 
left-handers) and brain (right hemisphere is responsible for 
his right hand in right-handers). Accordingly, the halfway 
around the world begin to develop Speech Center. And it is known

directly linked to the development of intelligence.
And so on in the same spirit of [A]. Then
sequenced is to say society is doomed to decline in the average 
IQ. If at all This advertising will ship us, "the upcoming era"

with the forerunners in the form of "internet-shops", 
"internet-bank", etc. Think it is clear to us all this will 
lead ... 


   ps: direct entry to some
cyberpunk tale turns out;)



               Literature:


   Vidineev NV The nature of intellectual abilities. And 
Moscow. : Thought, 1989. -173s.



   ended: 18/05/2k