Subj : Translating CASE from BAS
To   : Fred Kantor
From : Mike Luther
Date : Fri Feb 09 2001 03:02 pm

Fred ..

 FK> If I may ask... do your "alpha conditionals" test for bit patterns?
 FK> If so, might you rewrite them using numeric values of those bit 
 FK> patterns?

In two programs they do in the suite, but not everywhere.  To save space I used 
bit/pattern performance matrix conditionals in the contest logging software for 
telecommunications stuff in the ham radio junk.  Pattern matching branches the 
operations logic for the program in real-time for the operator in the deal.  
Yet storing the full network site's performance hit status in the site server 
log took a pitance of space.  However, that tiny fragment of the stuff isn't 
the only place logic jump decision was attempted in CASE SELECT.  There are 
other uses for it in pattern matching, I guess you could call it 
semi-fuzzy-logic uses elsewhere.

To proof the speed and get a real handle on what the network could and couldn't 
do a long time ago, I merged all the professional accounting, case modules, 
inventory control and database stuff for the full office suite in together with 
the ham radio contest logging stuff!   I figured if I could put it up for, say 
example, a site networked instance for Field Day, in real-time, with each 
operator's position hammering the entire professional suite as if it were the 
business acquitition terminal, but capturing each business template on the 
network in split-second real-time, and it didn't smash all to Hades, it sure 
wouldn't smash in a real disaster load either!

It didn't.  It doesn't.

I can tell you that DOS-VDM's in OS/2 are SUPERB at all this, including "alpah 
conditional" testing in near-real time!


Mike @ 117/3001



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