Re: question

From: Sheldon Simms (sheldonsimms_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/15/03 

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:56:29 -0400

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:07:24 +0000, Joe Wright wrote:

> Joona I Palaste wrote:
>>
>> Richard Bos <rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> scribbled the following:
>> > Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> >> Richard Bos <rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> scribbled the following:
>> >> > Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> >> >> Richard Bos <rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> scribbled the following:
>> >> >> > "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@net.net> wrote:
>> >> >> >> I have a C question that may be OT so if no one wants to respond that's
>> >> >> >> their perogative.
>> >> >> >> Using standard C as a base. How can one begin to build a GUI system?
>> >> >> >> Obviously there must be access to memory IO and the System calls of the OS
>> >> >> >> if not the kernel. I mean from scratch not from a layer another developer
>> >> >> >> has designed though that may be convenient.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > You know how, when you SAVE "filename" SCREEN$ in BASIC, that basically
>> >> >> > does the same thing as SAVE "filename" CODE 16384,6912? Well, then,
>> >> >> > obviously screen memory starts at 16384 and takes 6912 bytes.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This is implementation-defined as it's more a feature of the underlying
>> >> >> machine architecture than of BASIC. Not all BASIC dialects support that
>> >> >> syntax of SAVE in the first place.
>> >>
>> >> > Erm... yes. That was more or less the point.
>> >>
>> >> Next time, mark subtleties more clearly. Such as with a <subtlety> tag.
>> >> So that idiots like me will also be able to spot them.
>>
>> > 's your own fault for not having programmed on the One True Home
>> > Computer. So there.
>>
>> > Richard, 14 again
>>
>> Erm, Richard, aren't you, like, Dutch and stuff? I thought that computer
>> was only for them Britons. I, being Scandinavian, chose the C=64, AS ANY
>> FULE KNO.
>>
> Scandinavia 1. region in N Europe including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and
> sometimes Iceland & the Faeroe Islands.
>
> When did Finland join Scandinavia?

http://www.m-w.com

  Main Entry: Scan·di·na·via
  Usage: geographical name
  1 peninsula N Europe occupied by Norway & Sweden
  2 Denmark, Norway, Sweden, & sometimes also Iceland, the Faeroe Islands,
    & Finland

http://www.bartleby.com (American Heritage Dictionary)

  Scandinavia
  SYLLABICATION: Scan·di·na·vi·a
    A region of northern Europe consisting of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
    Finland, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands are often included in the
    region.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org

  Scandinavia noun
    a region including the countries of Sweden, Denmark, Norway,
    and sometimes Finland and Iceland

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