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Posts Tagged ‘computer’

remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24

Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086.

Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors.

I used it in BASM (not only in Delphi 1 and up, it started in Turbo Pascal 6), and before that in MASM, NASM, and TASM.

–jeroen

Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, History, Software Development, x86 | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

Frank Borland is back, but what does that mean?

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/23

Frank Borland is back. You can meet him at Micro Focus now – they acquired Borland a while ago – where he relates to things from the past:

Frank Borland first appeared in advertisements and on the cover of the SideKick manual in 1984. Later on, Frank appeared in the first version of the Turbo Tutor manual.

He is talking about powerful and affordable, has Facebook as well as presence on LinkedInTwitter and Google+.
But I when I look at the MicroFocus product portfolio, I don’t see any that are both affordable and powerful.

Todays software days are different than 30 years ago, but I do agree with a couple of the points he made:

  • Keep it open
  • Don’t make it big, make it better
  • Focus on the user experience
  • Listen to the community

I don’t think you necessarily need to meet these two though:

  • Meet every platform need
  • Make it affordable

As those two tend to contradict each other.

What do you think?

–jeroen

via: » Frank’s Story Meet Frank Borland.

Posted in Agile, Delphi, Development, Opinions, Software Development, Testing, Unit Testing | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments »

Crap: VersionInfo handling broken as of Delphi XE2

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/11

Today I found out the hard way that you really need a build integration system for managing VersionInfo in Delphi applications: as of Delphi XE2 it is broken in the IDE.

See these links:

This is the only workable workaround so far:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments »