PowerBasic - will it recover or is the Air out?

[Cory Marshall]

Seems to be back up (10:19 EST)

[Chris Holbrook]

Jim Bailey has just posted  re the outages: http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?p=422822#post422822

[Frederick J. Harris]

Haven't read yet what Jim Bailey posted about the outages, but I'm having one of my common sleepless nights (I oftentimes don't sleep well), and I decided to get up n the middle of the night here (same time zone PowerBASIC is in) and see if the site was down.  It isn't.  My local time now is about 3:20 AM US Eastern Standard Time.  I haven't had any experience with the PowerBASIC site being down at all for weeks.  However, everyone seems to be saying its down while I'm sleeping.  Well, its the middle of the night, I'm not sleeping, and it isn't down.  Having settled that searing question, maybe I can get back to sleep!   

[Steve Hutchesson]

I would not lose too much sleep over the intermittent availability of the PB website. Anyone who has ever had to handle changes over the holiday period knows what the problems are. people away on vacation, ISPs with skeleton staff, apparently some stuffup with getting rid of the old connection in their new office and so on. Jim's post makes it clear that the intent is to get it all up and going again reliably so its just a matter of time and everybody being available to get the job done.

Now don't you guys wish you had another language to play with as well, MASM for instance. 

[Stan Duraham]

MASM for instance

then all your nights would be sleepless

[Chris Holbrook]

I would not lose too much sleep over the intermittent availability of the PB website.

M$ would care. Any small business should care. From the tone of Mr Bailey's remarks, he cares and communicates which is a pretty good start.

[Theo Gottwald]

Now don't you guys wish you had another language to play with as well, MASM for instance.

If you make it a subset of PowerBASIC ... it could get more Fans.
Assembler - no matter which type of Assembler, it will not get a lot of newcomers interested these days.

Look out there --- when people get a new windows versions that consist of pictures you should touch ---.
And in a time where a iPhone is the "Highest" technology.

As I have told you in my post before, I would really like the idea, if you think about a cooperation with PB and also improve the builtin Assembler to MASM Standards.
This way you could beat a lot of flies with one strike.
Nobody (or near to nobody) will start with learning Assembler, unless you start to get an icon picture for each register and each command.
And even then it may fail :-).

Hutch, you are the one who just knows best about ASM optimizations. I believe you could be an important part of a team that could continue to make the best, and fastest Assembler/Compiler available.

[Patrice Terrier]

Theo--

You are always pushing up for your PB's church, this is called lobbying

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[Theo Gottwald]

I hope its not tooo late.