Re: HELP!About download FC4 images.

In comp.os.linux.misc Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:58:52 +0100, Michael Heiming staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Dances With Crows wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:24:35 -0500, Jean-David Beyer staggered into the
>>> Black Sun and said:
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>>> Today's typical user doesn't know *how* to program. Sad but true.
>> Even moving a mouse isn't that easy today.

> ? When I first saw a 128K Macintosh (1985 or so; I was 9) it had a
> "demo attract" program running. That program was a basic "how to move a
> mouse, how to click, how to drag, how to double-click..." thing. I
> picked it up in < 10 minutes. Mice these days have extra buttons and
> scrool wheels, but that shouldn't add much complexity to a program like
> that. I think the problem is not that these "totally new user" programs
> don't exist, it's that everyone assumes mousing is a basic skill and
> everybody knows it already.

There was no mouse on the first computers I used, ZX81 was among
the first. Later had an own C64, man was this a powerful machine
these days, still no mouse.

>>> I started using computers (Apple //c, w00t!) a lot of simple
>>> utilities were written in BASIC. That sucked as a language, but it
>> Iirc those had or came with pascal, which was the preferred
>> programming language those days in schools

> Nope. The Apple II series all had a version of BASIC in their ROMs.
> Pascal was a fairly expensive ($200?) addon, so it didn't get used that
> much. Of course, on a system that tiny, the only way to get anything
> done quickly was to use assembly, which was just a tiny bit difficult.

Ah see, it was on all those systems and we had to use it and
nothing else.

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