Zbigniew, > This reminds me somewhat a "Forth's Dillemma" rant: ...
Which I read, and I do not regard it as any "rant" but a statement of fact, especially as I suffered the same -- In 1968, when I still did 360/DOS mainframe work, IBM added job-stack capability for the DOS foreground-1 and -2 tasks, but they FORGOT most systems had only one card-reader to do job-stack input! "Capturing" F1 and F2 job-stacks to tape or disk was also impossible, as reading past a /& card (end of job) was an ERROR that "canned" all cards until the next /& appeared. So, I read the assembled DOS kernel listing, noted the bits set by a /& card, and wrote a B-Transient to CLEAR the bits until a /&& card ("end of stack") was read. Worked fine, F1 and F2 got a lot more work done, and our nightshift girl got home 2 hours earlier every night. The upshot? 3 weeks later, my boss called me in and asked me to be more "discreet" about any further changes I did to the 360/DOS system. I asked why, and he replied "Our S.E. [systems-engineer i.e. "repairman"] heard about it, and now they want to re-negotiate our MAINTENANCE contract!". Within 3 months, and through absolutely NO fault of my boss or that company, I had my first job in mini-computers. My opinion was that, if IBM thought only THEIR people at White Plains, NY could do systems-programming, and everybody else in the field ought NOT, then I did NOT need my "destiny" to be controlled by those a**holes! And I made that decision at only age 23! Your "Forth's Dilemma" is not any sort of "rant" but really a statement of fact. I know, since I have "BEEN there and DONE that!", as we in the U.S.A. might say. Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user