[A83] Re: Thanks to All Who Helped Me
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[A83] Re: Thanks to All Who Helped Me
ComAsYuAre@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/12/2001 1:26:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> central@hyperfield.com writes:
>
> > > I can't think of a single
> > > reason why anybody would need to develop pure ASM except to write a shell.
> >
> > I can:
> >
> > Suppose: you have really dumb classmates who barely can figure out how to
> > run a
> > basic program, and you want to program a utility of game for them... I'll
> > use
> > regular 83+ Asm when doing so... (Ofcourse, you could spend 80 hours trying
> > to
> > learn using a shell to them) (Really, it happens sometimes. Last year I
> > exchanged regular 83 programs with Ion programs on a few of my classmates
> > calcs. I had to listen to them blaming me for erasing all of their games for
> > weeks...)
>
> Then are they going to be able to figure out how to use Send(9 and all that
> crap? I seriously doubt it. Running prgmA isn't difficult for anybody I've
> encountered...
Nah, they're running a basic program from TIOS which contains "Send(9prgmCRAP"
but try to make a basic program start a shell-program that way.
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