Author: Mill (ppp-189-59.20-151.libero.it)
Date: 11-07-2001 18:57
In my opinion, Star Trek is easy to program (also in machine language) and is a very powerful machine indeed.
Maybe Star Trek counts so many fans due to another reason: it started in 1985/86, when other machines had names like MSX or C-64 or VIC-20, but they all were almost a toy, compared to Star Trek. The core of the ST (ST = Star Trek for those who did not read the reply by Anders Eriksson) is powerful still nowadays: if you digit at the DOS prompt the magic word "debug" and press "enter" and then the sequence "r" (enter) "d" (enter) and "q" (enter), you will notice that the 32-bit memory addresses are a couple of TWO 16-bit registers (DS and IP) so those machines look like a man who wants to dig with a spoon instead of using an escavator... Well, if that man runs fast (nowadays some run up to 1.5 Ghz) he succeeds in a short... but he cannot be took as an example of efficiency... in fact, 16 bit are 64 KB, 32 bit are 4 GB... with Star Trek you could theoretically load a movie in RAM !! (even if, practically, you can address only 24 bits - 16 MB)
Apple MacIntosh is nearly a standard in publishing thanx to its memory addressing capabilities! So, Star Trek is nowadays still the best computer architecture in the world !!
Mill
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