Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-20T21:06:54Z

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 June 2001 22:40, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Interesting... Hmmm. The first Flight Simulator to run on a PC
> > ran on a 4.47 MHz PC/XT. The core state-machine ran off the BIOS
> > timer-tick at 18.206 ticks/second. It was written in MASM by me.
> > The graphics was written by many PROGRAM EXCHANGE contributors and
> > was written in Turbo Pascal. I was the "SysOp" of that BBS system
> > in the days when the Internet was nothing more than a college-to
> > -college experiment.
> >
> > It required 256k or RAM and had the flight dynamics of a real
> > Cessna 150 airplane.
>
> I could have sworn I ran it on a 64K machine.
>

Not unless you got the original version that did RS-232C "graphics"
on a CP/M Machine (Ampro Little Board). That ran with 48k usable.

The GUI using Turbo Pascal required a lot of RAM.

> Now, how did Bruce Artwick and Sublogic fit into this?
>
> --
> Daniel
>

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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