Expectations, Tasks and assignments (was: Assembly vs.Everything

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon Aug 20 19:47:35 2001

Jeff Hellige skrev:

> I used what I had available, which was a BASIC compiler under
>MS-DOS, not to mention it was what I already knew. I neve said it
>was the best choice! It did work though and it worked better than
>the solution that replaced it that came from 'professional'
>programmers. Mine was done on the side and was a definate
>improvement over what had been used before, which was an archaic
>proprietary piece of software that was a royal pain to use, being run
>from a mini and accessed by way of a terminal. If it hadn't been my
>BASIC programs giving them the little push, who knows when the would
>have replaced it.

Please explain what's wrong with running things on a mini through terminals?
And why a DOS PC somehow is better?

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