I'll have to remember those tips, DAD. Thanks!
Now, what's the barrel shift opperator in QBasic...?
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Bottom line response = I cannot remember.
I must have used Quick Basic a couple of times, but when the majority was using it I was mainly using assembly, ANSI C and Advanced FORTRAN. Now my serious work is in VC++ and my fast burner is VB.
Hence, I have practically skipped QB and TB although Borland did a fantastic job IIRC.
You would not believe the fantastic graphics we produced in DOS 640 x 480 256 colours in the old days.
If you are aware of TOPAZ then you might have an idea of the quality. It was Amiga 1000 that kicked in and computers were never the same again after. The first virus was born on an Amiga by the way and it was a joke inspired by the fantastic speed of the graphics engine. The programmer wanted his joke to be sticky and persistent because it was a frightening screen and a mad laugh, so he wished to be scarier. The idea to embed code to make a copy in memory for being triggered later on periodically came from that concept. Viruses evolved since then to carry several destructive missions in retaliation from pirates who bypass the security codes. The earliest internet communications helped the spread of that concept from the Amiga and onto Mackintosh of apple computers and from there to Intel-MS PCs.
At that time Bill Gates was drinking wine from bottles not from barrels. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Only those who took the RISC were drunk from barrels that could shift binary numbers left and right. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Most probably QB never had such an operator.
Kindest regards.
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