Hi Alan,
On , you wrote me:

 AZ> On 22-10-10 6:42 AM, Ed Vance -> TOM WALKER wrote:

 EV>> Tom,

 EV>> I have a fond memory of a young Commodore 64 user Friend of mine
 EV>> who would go away from his computer desk while a game was 
 EV>> loading
 EV>> from His 1541 5-1/4" floppy drive, and go do something else 
 EV>> until the
 EV>> game started up.

 AZ> I had that sort of experience in the late 1980s running Pagemaker
 AZ> desktop publishing program under Windows (I forget if it was Windows 
 AZ> 1.x or 2.x) - 
 AZ> probably on a 640 kb XT clone... even once the program had loaded,
 AZ> clicking on a menu involved a noticeable wait for the menu to drop 
 AZ> down.

In my "Trials and Tribulations" with Sempoint, I even thought that maybe I 
should allow the program time to read all the Area Files after I pressed the A 
key for it to load the Areas/Echos, nuttin happened any different than before.

Maybe I ought to do the same thing with SEM that Tom told me to do for 
MalwareBytes, just reinstall the Sempoint program.

Before I do that I will use something to Save the contents of the 
sub-directories that contain all the messages that I have Imported into SEM 
while trying to learn how to use it.

BTW "Trials and Tribulations" was one of my favorite games that I
use to play 
on the Commodore 64 box.

 AZ> That was the era when users did all sorts of convoluted memory
 AZ> management tricks in order to free up an additional 10-20 kb 
 AZ> (kilobytes!) of memory - 
 AZ> which could often make a noticeable difference in performance.

Probably QEMM hadn't been invented to help out memory management then?

  Ed


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