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If any are interested I'd be happy to supply a bit of history as to Windows based systems. I don't mean Microsoft Windows but, rather, the concept of an app running in a specific window while another app could be active in another. Many believe that Apple was the first but, actually, Atari was first. Not the original Atari 400/800 8 bit systems but the Atari ST systems using a Motorola 16 bit CPU. The Atari computer division was bought out by Jack Tramiel (sp) who was the founder of the Commodore systems. He quit what he founded and bought out the computer division of Atari.
I'm an old fart and was there at the beginning writing Assembly code apps in the very early early stages of the personal computer. Actually I wrote a totally Assembly OS running a Window based system myself. The only real restriction was that you could only have a maximum of 256 open and active windows.
I won't make a long post on this at this time but would be happy to give a "history lesson" if anyone responds with interest.
A big part of me REALLY misses those early days. I used to really enjoy coding Assembly in the old days but it is no longer any fun. In the old days, if you coded Assembly, you actually created something. No longer the same. Today doing Assembly is nothing more, in most cases, than just making calls to routines that are already included in the OS. What is the fun in that?
I'm an old fart and was there at the beginning writing Assembly code apps in the very early early stages of the personal computer. Actually I wrote a totally Assembly OS running a Window based system myself. The only real restriction was that you could only have a maximum of 256 open and active windows.
I won't make a long post on this at this time but would be happy to give a "history lesson" if anyone responds with interest.
A big part of me REALLY misses those early days. I used to really enjoy coding Assembly in the old days but it is no longer any fun. In the old days, if you coded Assembly, you actually created something. No longer the same. Today doing Assembly is nothing more, in most cases, than just making calls to routines that are already included in the OS. What is the fun in that?