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Another friend of mine designed a floppy-disk controller for it and he and I wrote all the software needed to format, read and write approx **150** CP/M disk formats.
This allowed me to learn 32-bit assembler programming (and it was a trully great, high-level assembler with the most orthogonal instruction set I had seen!)
(2003) After a 7-year contracting stint in the electricity retail/forecasting industry, I am now working for a government subcontractor.
(2006) So here I am. Having survived all that, I am now punishing myself with PHP 4! Looking at source code that contains both html and code!!!
If it wasn't for the PHP SMARTY lib, I would have lost my mind.
At least PHP5 seems to have some more structure; cons/destructors, try/catch, proper dereferencing, object handles rather than copies.
(2007) I am spending most of my time doing R&D as well as looking for ways to optimise our internal processes, improve our products and other neat things. Having a great time finding new ways VMWare can improve our data-center and operations.
(Earlier this year, I found out that one of the apps I wrote in 1997 (in VB5/6 + Access ((I had no choice!))) is still up and running!
It is used 24x7 by at least 2 people at any given time and has worked flawlessly all this time! A great boost for the ego!
)
This allowed me to learn 32-bit assembler programming (and it was a trully great, high-level assembler with the most orthogonal instruction set I had seen!)
(2003) After a 7-year contracting stint in the electricity retail/forecasting industry, I am now working for a government subcontractor.
(2006) So here I am. Having survived all that, I am now punishing myself with PHP 4! Looking at source code that contains both html and code!!!
If it wasn't for the PHP SMARTY lib, I would have lost my mind.
At least PHP5 seems to have some more structure; cons/destructors, try/catch, proper dereferencing, object handles rather than copies.
(2007) I am spending most of my time doing R&D as well as looking for ways to optimise our internal processes, improve our products and other neat things. Having a great time finding new ways VMWare can improve our data-center and operations.
(Earlier this year, I found out that one of the apps I wrote in 1997 (in VB5/6 + Access ((I had no choice!))) is still up and running!
It is used 24x7 by at least 2 people at any given time and has worked flawlessly all this time! A great boost for the ego!
)
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I then //advanced// to a ""MicroBee"", which was an AUS designed and made, 2MHZ Z80-based 8-bit computer with 32KB of CMOS RAM (CMOS RAM meant that its contents could be kept alive with a tiny battery, even after the computer was switched off. Neat!)
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Same goes if you get bored hearing people blubber on about their past jobs....)
I then //advanced// to a ""MicroBee"", which was an AUS designed and made, 2MHZ Z80-based 8-bit computer with 32KB of CMOS RAM (which meant the RAM contents were kept alive with a tiny battery, even after the computer was switched off).
