CompuServe Messages

The reason the compiling advantage seems to be so small is that, when it comes down to it, the "interpreter" approach is really interpreting very little data (a couple Kb tops) and it can do that pretty quickly. And there's not all that much data that is compressable via compiling. Whether the menu takes a half-second or a quarter-second to "process" doesn't really matter much to the human user. The answer to the "obvious question" is partly "for fun", and also (and this is my personal interest) because the same menu system can work on other platforms as well. My other personal interest is that it would give me a chance to see how easy/hard it is to port VAX C software to a "pc" platform. -Bill