[ros-general] New to ReactOS

[jwalsh at bigpond.net.au]

True Magnus.
However C and Assembler are only two of about 150 computer languages.
They are the A to Z, so to speak, and have a set order, like the numbers 123...n-1.
Some people are so obsessed by Number and Letter sequences, that is all they do.
Like chasing pi
Pythagoras established a complete religion on a simple Triangle.
In the beginning Unix recognised a string of character terminated by a null character.
And the standard io was a keyboard and display, and it was ASCII not extended.
I do not think much has changed, except we make it a lot harder to distinguish between these simple beginnings and now.
There are two basic kinds of operatives:
The What-if kind and the How-to kind
The What-if kind like the spread sheet and play games with truth tables
The How-to kind like to build the tools for the What-if kind.
The What-if kind want to want to build the world.
The How-to kind want to print it out as "hello world"
both are obsessions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program

Regards and rosuccess
Justin

---- Magnus Olsen wrote:
> Some part are optimze in asm in ros. Rember if u coding right
> asm is faster that any other langues. BitBlit optimze in some part
> was done in asm. If any one feel some part can be optimze in asm
> then do it. But we need also the C function so it can compile on other
> platforms.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: "ReactOS General List"
> Cc: "Redefined Horizons"
> Sent: den 18 October 2005 02:41
> Subject: Re: [ros-general] New to ReactOS
>
>
> > Why all the excitement?
> > Who uses assembler for serious anything these days?
> > Ok in my day I used debug.exe because it came with DOS.
> > Now chip sizes are so large and processors so fast it would be a joke.
> > Today I would use AWK.exe, and if I needed to get tight assembler, compile
> it with TAWK.
> > or Mawk.
> > Then if I were mad enough, hand craft out the redundency, or write another
> in AWK program to do it.
> > You will get more Wow for your effort.
> > If anybody from ros is really in need of assembler then something is sus.
> >
> > Regards and rosucceed
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > ---- Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > > Wow! Great news!
> > > Now let me ask about volunteering to help with the project. I'd like to
> get
> > > some experience programming in assembly language and/or machine code.
> > > Is there any need for this on the ReactOS project? Can I start on some
> > > simple assembly language programming tasks for ReactOS and have someone
> that
> > > can guide me through the tough spots?
> > > Let me know if I can help in this area.
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > On 10/17/05, KJKHyperion wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > [1] Is ReactOS built on a Unix core, or is it a new operating
> > > > > sytem from the ground up?
> > > >
> > > > ReactOS is all-original, written from the ground up as a clone of the
> > > > Windows design
> > > >
> > > > > [2] Can you dual boot with ReactOS and a Linux operating system like
>
> > > > > Debian? If you can, is there a place where I can find instructions
> on
> > > > > how to do so?
> > > >
> > > > yes, see
> > > >
>
> > > >
> > > > > [3] Does an application that runs on Microsoft Windows have to be
> > > > > ported before it can be run on ReactOS?
> > > >
> > > > No
> > > >
> > > > > Can I try installing the program to see how it works?
> > > >
> > > > Yes
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