Sutter's ISO C++ Trip Report - The best compliment is when someone else steals your ideas....

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:37:59PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/9/2018 6:50 PM, John Carter wrote:
> > Nothing creates flaky and unreliable systems more than allowing them
> > to wobble on past the first point where you already know that things
> > are wrong.
> 
> Things got so bad with real mode DOS development that I rebooted the
> system every time my program crashed, making for rather painfully slow
> development.
[...]

The saving grace to real mode DOS was that rebooting was so fast.  Sad
to say, modern OSes are horribly slow and inefficient at booting up.  So
much for progress.


T

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