From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:57:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:57:35 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:42513 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:57:26 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: "Richard B. Johnson" , Rob Landley Subject: Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:00:07 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Tony Hoyle , Davide Libenzi , Russell Leighton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Greear In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106202300070E.00439@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 20 June 2001 22:40, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Interesting... Hmmm. The first Flight Simulator to run on a PC > ran on a 4.47 MHz PC/XT. The core state-machine ran off the BIOS > timer-tick at 18.206 ticks/second. It was written in MASM by me. > The graphics was written by many PROGRAM EXCHANGE contributors and > was written in Turbo Pascal. I was the "SysOp" of that BBS system > in the days when the Internet was nothing more than a college-to > -college experiment. > > It required 256k or RAM and had the flight dynamics of a real > Cessna 150 airplane. I could have sworn I ran it on a 64K machine. Now, how did Bruce Artwick and Sublogic fit into this? -- Daniel