Which way to go, from now on?

[Michael B. Brutman]

Coding ...

Getting a development environment setup for a machine can be fairly 
intensive.  Especially if the machine had a few vendors that provided 
environments.  Once you are setup, nothing teaches you more about the 
machine than trying to wring something useful out of it. ;-0

My favorite example ..  the TCP/IP stack that I wrote for DOS.  It is 
part of a long process to put a BBS on my PCjr.  I missed the 
opportunity 20 years ago to have a dialup BBS, so I'm making up for it 
with a multi-user Telnet BBS.

Getting the development environment setup, writing code that works and 
is stable, and wringing the performance out of it has put me a lot 
closer to the machine that just powering it on once in a while.  Given 
your collection, you could spend a few lifetimes doing software.


Mike