OT .. Tidly OS version 0.1 alpha ;-)

[peekay]

u know what .. it has to happen ..

 

the asm, then C++ guy from the eighties being the huge pillar here, tidlly operating system is an inevitable eventuality

 

like c++ is the evolved  a/b/c languages and became a stable thingy, TOS, (tiddly OS) is the 'natural' movement resultant from the earlier tinkerings

 

cp/m, etc were earlier precursors of DOS .. and result is Microsoft's huuuge stable of 'products'

tw is the precursor of unknown things .. and may radically alter the way microchip (later photonic chips with terybyte speed 'buses' and 'ram', optic crystal/cube storages etc work .. for now, well .. umm .. err .. it WILL change the way microchips deliver 'products'

 

javascript is toooo slow .. and at best is only a proof of concept ..

 

like linux .. we may still have an ericux, FNDux, Communitux, and what not .. (following the lotus tradigion of Gorgeoux ;-)) etcetrux .. etcetrux ..

 

so .. here's writing the first 2bFamousux TOS v0.1 alpa code : 

 

::   _(|)_          

 

 

welcome screen ! means "print namastey world !  in folded palms format"

 

maybe this will create history .. maybe this will be just kidding .. who knows ?

 

 

 

 

on a more serious note :

tiddly approach to using easy symbols could be used to create an asm compiler .. to make understanding asm functions, interrupt calls with service params and also other function calls .. this would take the lead shoes off the browser dependant, javascript based slooooow but very usful/usable tiddly thingys

 

.....straws in the wind .. let's see where they land !

 

peekay

 

it may even result in an 'e' language .. mutating to e++ (e for eric !) .. with mapped path to f, f++, g, g++ , r, r++, w, w++, en route

 

 

> dos was built upon asm as was lotus123

Actually, only the early verisons of 1-2-3 were written in assembler.

(even today, my friend .. ex-xoom guy .. uses lots of asm in c++ code to save pages of codelines to get a simple job done .. maybe continuing to code Lotus things in asm would have been a better idea .. asm compiled thingys execute amazingly fast !)

 

Beginning in 1988,  release 3 for DOS ("Victoria" and "Albert"),
1-2-3/G for OS/2 ("Vertigo" and "Elvis") and 1-2-3/W for Windows
("Rockport") were re-written entirely in compiled C code (except for
certain key performance-related modules of the core calculation
'engine').

 

(i read this as the power of assembly over c++ .. the great 'excepts' !)  

 

 

 

  I know this is true, because I worked at Lotus from
1989-1994 and was a Senior Software Engineer on those projects
(primarily on the "Graph Tool" for 1-2-3/G and the overall GUI layer
for 1-2-3/W, as well as contributions to Freelance (presentation
graphics) and work on the multi-app integration for SmartSuite.

-e