PC Problems - My view of the IBM PC.

                                          
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      The following article was written by "home,
 an ordinary Sheikh", but a wild and unpredictable
 My ALI supplemented it with his “thoughts”.
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           My view on the IBM PC.          
                                          
      Probably everyone knows what it is
 WindoWs`95, and many have seen it. For sa-
 I’ll explain it first: this software package
 is standard for all supplied
 PC compatible computers, i.e. with
 buying a computer in a company store on
 this will already be recorded on your hard drive
 most package.  WindoWs`95 was developed
 by MICROSOFT in 1995, this company
 MA is currently a leader in
 creating system programs (and not only)
 for RS.  So in this very WindoWs
 there is such an option as "splash screen", or
 it melts just like the starry sky in NORTON
 COMANDER, i.e. if you installed by you
 you will not touch the keyboard or
 mouse, various movements will appear
 these little things, in ZX-speak, are mini
 demo  And one of these screensavers is
 the most ordinary scrolling, in it you can
 set a bunch of different parameters, such
 like scrolling speed, dimensions
 fonts, slantfont, thickening, and sa-
 my main thing is a lot (a lot)
 various fonts of various nationalities
 tey.  So this scrolling is impossible
 read because he twitches - such an effect
 that I achieved when I lacked interruption
 vaniya, and therefore I cannot understand how to
 133MHz may not have enough interrupts for
 some kind of scrolling, it seems to me
 after all, that’s not why he’s trembling,
 is there something wrong here??? Many may
 strike: they say, WindoWs is not intended for
 demonstrations, and scrolling is completely pure
 for there to be something there. Okay,
 I agree with you, but then why,
 The question arises: should I put it there at all?
 if it works poorly (to put it mildly)?
 Is this a demonstration of how they are NOT
 do they know how to program or something else?
 And this is from the most famous leading company in
 software all over the world!!!   
                                          
 ALI: Firstly, this is not the most ordinary
 scroller, because the font it uses is
 even uses vector, and not
 raster as you might think. Secondly,
 what do you say about the fact that during work
 there are still several dozen scrollers working
 procedures?  And thirdly, I have this
 Screen Saver works quite smoothly.     
                                          
 Imagine a ZX-FORMAT magazine with nonsense
 flying stars in INTRO, but then they would
 were rude everywhere, and such would be
 They definitely wouldn’t have achieved fame, but at IBM
 RS - they value it, and how much they value it!!!     
      I study at YrTY, Faculty of Information
 on systems and technologies, specialty
 Computers, subject Algorithmic languages and
 programming, topic - pascal, origin
 there is such a dialogue between me and the teacher -
 vatelem:                                 
  REVER: In the Pascal language you cannot use
 create a GOTO statement.                      
  Me: Why?                             
  PREV: Using this operator
 is considered bad form in programming
 NI.                                     
  Me: How is this possible?                        
  Reverend: Sam Wirth (that's the guy who
 invented by Pascal), at a meeting and presentation
 retation in 19.. (I don’t remember what year) not re-
 recommended the use of this operator.
 And since then its use has been counted
 in bad taste.                            
  Me: What if using the GOTO program
 ma will be much simpler in structure and
 therefore work faster?         
  Reverend: Well, I said you can’t use it
 use it, and no one uses it,
 that means it should be so!                        
      To be completely frank, I
 I think that she doesn’t know how to...
 honestly and rationallyprogram.
 And she should teach me this, this is os-
 what's new in my specialty, and what am I interested in
 in the end I will learn: basic programming
 deal with big glitches, big volume,
 low speed of the program and
 etc.  etc.. But I have to further
 to work in this specialty, which means
 let's churn out big and durable glitches
 (as in WindoWs`95). I only studied for
 syats, and there are already a ton of such examples, about everyone
 There won't be enough memory to write.         
                                          
 ALI: Buddy. Have you ever tried
 write programs at least in Pascal? EU-
 or not, then try the question about the use
 If you use the GOTO statement, it will disappear by itself. A
 to be honest, even on ASM you hardly
 you use this operator.   Do the math
 how many unconditional pe-
 moves aimed at simply
 transfer control to another place in the program
 frames and not serving cycles and conditions.
 And one more important circumstance.
 The fewer GOTO statements in your program,
 frame, the easier it will be for you to contribute
 it changes and therefore you will
 make fewer mistakes, which will lead to
 more stable operation of programs.        
                                          
     Opening the ZX-REVIEW magazine for 1995
 number 5, page 46, the very beginning (verbatim):
 " ...the new winner is Maxim Lupan
 from Adler. The length of its procedure is 22 bytes!
 "Let me explain: there was a competition for the most co-
 a quick screen cleaning procedure. And you vi-
 share such a competition on pussy somewhere,
 and you won’t see it, because it’s not there
 yat, fuck it, you have to break your brains for the sake of
 shortening some kind of cleaning procedure
 wound, which I have little memory of, whole
 1bMb, it won’t be enough, let’s put 32Mb, that’s it
 It turns out that the volume of programs is growing with
 speed of geometric progression, and
 the larger it is, the cooler it is considered
 they.  Such programmers on ZX are considered
 lamers, and not a bit anymore!!!  you
 Can you imagine, on some unknown
 famous ZX, some dude wrote a pro-
 a fool of only 22 bytes, but about him
 write in the magazine!!! Yes, you have a whole program
 write on PC, and even a small one about you
 articles won't be written if you don't
 a member of MICROSOFT or similar companies,
 because RS is money, not quality
 programming, and ZX is the
 honor, and try here to do something...
 If it’s not like that, you’ll be a lame straight away, you’ll be attacked
 they start to attack and be rude.                
                                          
 ALI: From this part of the article it is clear that the
 Thor is not very familiar with programming
 nium on RS.  None of the programmers
 considers largegood program
 default.  And as for increasing the volume
 downloading programs, this is inevitable.
 After all, we need to support new opportunities
 computer, and this requires memory. And those-
 let's see if it's really
 PC programs (toys) are so huge
 nals: As you know, the lion's share of memory is
 They have graphics and sound. On PC one full
 screen image occupies 1 megabyte pa-
 wrinkle. One second of sound (22 kHz) - approx.
 20 Kilobytes. And at the same time the average program
 takes from 50 to 100 Megabytes. With such
 it’s simply criminal to blame statistics
 Programmers are wasteful. After all, yes-
 taking into account compression, place the program
 a frame of measly 50 Megas is very difficult. And
 Finally, about program optimization. Here
 only one thing can be said. Try it on-
 write Quake in "bare" ASSEMBLY.      
                                          
      Let's move on.                        
      Have you ever met a ZX co-
 a peer who would copy files,
 and not from memory? I'm not, but if so, then
 I would send him away, but only on PC
 such exist, and if you want one
 feast from memory, then you will have to recall
 it takes about 10 minutes to install...
 mi.  His memory there is megabytes empty -
 no, but he copies files, wow
 wonderful!!!                            
                                          
 ALI: TR-DOS operating system, like
 the MS-DOS operating system copies "by
 files".                                 
  Who's stopping you from sending NORTON away?
 COMMANDER, because there are so many others,
 very good shells. DOS navigator
 for example. And also, I wonder if you heard
 ever about smartdrv?                
                                          
      Another joke: I’m starting to format
 running the disk under MS-DOS, on the PC itself -
 She says that the zero line is screwed up, i.e. disk is not
 formatted ( this disc [ TDK 3.5" ] 2
 I just lay there for years), I come to MAXWELL
 I'm starting to format it for TR-DOS -
 the result is positive, then under MS-DOS
 - the result is positive. Is this semi-
 It turns out that the native computer cannot
 she formatted the disk with DOS, and some crappy
 long and old TR-DOS did it without any
th strain, moreover, for a system alien to itself
 meh.                                      
                                          
 ALI: on PC you tried to format
 BAD disk at 1.44 Mega, and on SPECTRUM
 You formatted it to 720 Kilobytes.
 Do you feel the difference? A disk of this size
 will format your PC too (format a: /f:720
 /u).                                     
                                          
     And here's my conclusion(verdict):          
     1. IBM PC is a very cool and good
 shaya platform, which was turned into a half-
 Today's programmers are crap.
 On this platform there are a lot of
 th different areas of programs, 90% of co-
 which are simply an “invisible” marriage.
 And marriage is visible in a very elementary way: how
 more megahertz program needs -
 the worse it is executed!!!               
                                          
 Sheyh-Aleks     
 08-09.10.1997                            
                                          
                                          
 P.S. Well, about the large number of "sconces"
 ka" you're right, but it's not on SPECTRUM
 less.  But as for megahertz...
 Maybe we should all wash WindoWs, Quake,
 Doom, C&C, etc and install it on your machines
 why not "Volkov" with "Tetris"?              
                                          
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