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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kashish King who wrote (46407)	6/11/2000 6:06:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Rod - seems like you have an ax to grind here. In the late 70s and early 80s I also wrote a lot of Z80 code, some of which ate the machine on boot and performed some dedicated job. Also did two real-time OS products for the Z80, for machine control applications. Some systems using those products are still in use, more than 20 years later. Also special purpose machines based on that architecture for automotive engine control and other functions. Gates and his team did not have any formal education on computer science, and a lot of their early code was unorthodox, but it was pretty clean for what it did - brought up an 8-bit machine with 4K ram, enabled discovery of peripherals and user interface, and provided a programming and debug environment. What kind of Z80 code did you write, and when?