Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!sunic!kth!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Reply via mail or intl. +46 8 258 268...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Spleen venting (was: Re: 32-bit OS) Message-ID: <1456@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 22 Aug 89 20:15:46 GMT References: <22321@andante.UUCP> <1989Aug19.221033.2241@geology.wisc.edu> <8352@hoptoad.uucp> <34184@apple.Apple.COM> <2601@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Reply-To: h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 69 In article <2601@iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes: >Oops, something just slid over my reasonableness threshhold, so watch out! >(Not picking on anybody in particular, it's just that I keep hearing things > like this and I can't let them slide forever.) >FLAME ON **** #include >The complaint about TE has been dealt with already. By the time you >get that many lines TE has bogged down to the point that you don't want >to use it anyway. But MY complaint about TE is the fact that it DOES bog down... >80-column lines take up 3.2MB all by themselves. C'mon guys, MoveTo and >DrawText are _easy_! But flickers in anything else but monochrome on a SEx, yes... >Lord help us when the Mac has VM -- hardly anyone one will ever even >try to appease the effeciency gods. The Vax weenies [Paging Will Fix >It (tm)] will dance upon our graves yet (chanting "More megabytes, more >megabytes..."). Post it to rec.humour.funny. Much better than the things that come from there presently. >FLAME OFF **** >+----------------+ >! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey >! II SSSSCC ! ISC-Bunker Ramo >! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 >! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!iscuva!jimc (jimc@iscuva.iscs.com) >! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 >+----------------+ > "With excitement like this, who is needing enemas?" #include #define _FLAME_ If you're concerned about efficiency, why do you have a >3 row .sig ? And why can't we spoiled Mac programers have a wishing-list for christmas just like the other kids ? Here's mine: 1) Protected Memory 2) Protected Memory 3) Larger Jump Tables (So I can debug OOP on large projects) this may be solved through 4) 32 bit resource sizes 5) TE that doesn't bog down. A simple, neat editor/word processor with the ability to easily add functionality. and from Father Christmas, who's not gonna give me anything anyway since I've flamed so many people this year, I want 6) Preemptive Multitasking So there! -- This is your fortune from h+@nada.kth.se: TRAPEZOID - A device for catching zoids.