CompuServe Messages

Vic: I think that you're getting a little elitist in your old age. 😉 Seriously, though, it's not as cut and dried as you depict. While you and I probably read the MEMF_PUBLIC part of the manuals and immediately got the light bulb over the head, quite a few experienced microcomputer programmers probably didn't. It's not necessarily their fault, they just never had any big system multitasking experience. About 10 years ago, you couldn't even ASPIRE to system programming without understanding how the memory management hardware worked. Now, with micros, you can spend your entire career without knowing how any of it works, especially on the single-tasking machines. I submit that the real importance of MEMF_PUBLIC was not explained well enough in the original manuals, and that while yet ANOTHER MEMF bit makes me cringe, you ought to maybe switch to decaf. 😉 Ariel