Beware of the 4.3 gigabyte boundary

[adosorken]

I don't recall ever seeing a 100MHz 386, btw...

[TheBigBasicQ]

Its a prolly overclocked 386DX :rotfl:

[Z!re]

I checked, it actually is a 386N 100MHz... (The N is prolly some HP crap)

It IS a Hewlet Packard though, so it functions like a 286 20MHz, it starts DOS in about 10 sec, it actually displays a message: "Starting DOS..." :wink: dunno which DOS version though, and I'm too lazy to boot it up again

It is my mum's computer, she uses it to play Solitaire, she wanted to buy a new "Windows XP computer" (quoting her) to play solitaire on. I talked her out of it.

You will notice a difference in execution on different computers, as TBBQ said, you don't often have a prog saying "hi" and that's it. Or?

If you have a 100MHz running w98 (example) and run your "hi" rpog it may take 1 sec (example)

But if you run it on your 1GHz running w98 (yeah, right) it may only take 0.5sec

It is not the program itself that takes time, but all the other processes needed to take place (memory allocation and so on) before you'r program even runs

It is impossible to run only your program. Even if you make it a bootable kinnda OS which only says "hi" it executes at diff. speed on diff. computers, and I still claim you can tell the difference :lol:


Would it be impossible to make a 64bit library for QB?
A library wich have all the basic math functions (+-*/^) and some of the HEX$() STR$() a.s.o. functions?

[TheBigBasicQ]

If it starts up DOS in 10s then why should it function like a 286 20MHz

[Z!re]

I'm sarcastic, you know.

[TheBigBasicQ]

There wasnt a hint of sarcasm in your post =P.

[Z!re]

Back to topic:

Would it be impossible to make a 64bit library for QB?
A library wich have all the basic math functions (+-*/^) and some of the HEX$() STR$() a.s.o. functions?

[TheBigBasicQ]

No, I thought after Jark made his raytracer in QB no one will question whether something is possible in QB.