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NIH again was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore
We used to display the Meiko next to a Cray 1, the ETA-10, CM and Paragon. But the Meiko (which came from...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2909
Charlie Gibbs About fifteen years ago, I might have done the same. But that was because I lived in a tool ghetto: I did not have access to a...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2910
My tool of first resort tends to be less uniform the more I use other tools. The habitual tool...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2911
Ah. But these aren't regexps, and are far easier to use, since regexps never quite do what I want, and everything implements...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2912
Yes, and that shows that even in one program (grep) there's the brain damage of two different...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2913
fOn Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:28:28 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Gene Cash Three different matchers, if you include the fixed strings variety. Still think of and use them as three...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2914
Oh yes you do. When you're interviewing, you need to talk to the people and find out what the place is like, as much as they're talking to you...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2915
Oh, good grief! Of course! I fought a battle one time about output of compilers and buttemblies not being bit-for-bit reproducible from the same sources. I won that one. We...
optimization was: python was: transputers again was: Commodore
I lucked out and got a copy of Wulf via comp.arch gratis from a guy who had 2 copies. Optimization went underground in the 80s...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2917
NOTE: I am getting real annoyed with you f***ing idiots who keep changing the subject line. Not only does this newreader have...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2918
Half a million lines of buttembly... I was generally buttuming that most of the older code would be smaller if written in a high level language. I...
python was 2919
Sorry, I had to delete all those f***ing colons. order It may be a measure of something happening...but I'm not sure what. This is one of...
python was 2920
I'm not amazed. This is all basic computing common sense. If you want to run lean and mean, you do not...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2921
That's 4.9MB of modules, where are you getting 47MB? I compile as much as possible as modules. For instance, I only need...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2922
Based on some of the code that escaped into the wild, not paranoid enough ;) (And yes, I know that in...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2923
Of course. It takes years and a lot of learning to be paranoid perfect. Nope. They washed but only knew how to clean using spit baths. One thing at a time until...
python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2924
Well, RISC was about increasing speed by making it easier to optimize the CPU. You pay the price of more instructions, but...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2925
David Scheidt ... snipped stuff with silly non-standard quote marks ... Just to use your example, there are several things that can be done to improve legibility. First, don't overdo the...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2926
Ok, people should not write long chunks of code. But a language should provide the tools for doing so -- because the programmer may be...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2927
Now consider comparing subroutines with CISC instructions. And look at compilers analyzing statements from an HLL down to the level of emiting complex sequences of 'simple risk' instructions...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2928
I always believed life was too short to learn TeX. I think it came from having to read too many Springer-Verlag "Lecture Notes In Computer Science" (read: halfbutted...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2929
Yea, well. Since when did those people know about the real world? That is a correct way when...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2930
On Fri, 17 Mar 06 12:51:51 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, ^^^ ? The issue at stake tends to be whether you want to keep the...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2931
Joe Pfeiffer Hey, there have been people writing *bad* code for a long time. A friend of mine doing COBOL, showed me a program written by...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2932
Let me guess... he argued that this generated faster code than doing it with an aggregate table? I have had to edit programs where I found stuff like this in C...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2933
snip C's switch is brain-dead. I much prefer a more powerful case statement. Some languages have this. COBOL is one. The xBASE family is one-several, as in...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2934
You likely don't recognize the name. You're in a maze of twisty little pbuttages, all the same. Think of each room as a state with rules to...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2935
Looks good. More people should read it. I just have one question, though: what do you have against continue and break? To...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2936
Its pretty common, and widely disliked both for WindRiver's licensing policies and reports of poor quality control in the kernel & drivers, and...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2937
Tradition is probably the only reason we do. When a new project comes around there is usually a fairly long discussion about which OS's we could use that would get us out...
subs was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore
Oh yeah. I've held one in my hands. It had the lead covers for sinking and the water soluble ink. I also found various pre-enciphering comm sheets including one for clear...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2939
Here, college is pretty low-cost; IF you can make the academic qualification. The open studies in Theology and Law are considered "open"; i.e. you...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2940
You are buttuming that indexing was always a given. It was not. Also, string manipulations were horrid to...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2941
Are you referring to indexing as opposed to subscripting? Not that it matters much - both were available in COBOL...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2942
As long as you limit yourself to software and-or hardware that can be set for tab stops other than every 8 spaces. Perhaps I wasn't being clear enough...
security was: the net again: transputers again was: Commodore 2943
Various portions of the Federal govt. are considering reclbuttifying certain documents. The DOE are among the leaders of this movement...
touring the NTS was: security was: the net again: transputers again was: Commodore 2945
I scored terribly on SAT English (400s). But I got asked to edit a journal as a technical editor. Publishing companies hire MAs and PhDs...
touring the NTS was: security was: the net again: transputers again was: Commodore 2946
Well not all, I know. I have to get to one complainer on another topic. You guys are being too kind...
security was: the net again: transputers again was: Commodore 2947
A lot of shops are still like that. Of course, sometimes they get stupid with...
transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2948
David Dyer-Bennet In practice, it's not the issue you make it out to be. I use Python a lot and indentation problems rarely come...
Hercules 3.04 announcement
Anne & Lynn Wheeler part of the issue with jupiter controller work starting in early 80s and...
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Wow. Despite the pessimistic Verizon estimate (and the fact that 12 hours after the fire I had yet to see a single...
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When I was doing it, we used a little white crimp-ons affectionately called "beanies". :-) Depending on the job it could go fast or slow. If...
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That was explained in the next sentence. "Sound out" means you put a tone on one end and find it ont he other end with a listening device. In fact, I have laying...
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No, it didn't. :-) But the two wires are broken and each piece doesn't loop around. I'm not writing...
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Certainly the 6kv distribution is regularly messed with in a live state, but the 44kv...
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Sorry, your right. I buttumed a piece of jargon would be understood but that was a bad buttumption on my part. I'll try to explain it better. Remember (or...
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munch .. In a big cable, the wires are 'structured'. First into bundles of 25 pairs, then into bundles of...
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Morten Reistad Eeeeuw. I recall similar warnings re. "dirty environments" and "carpets". We had a MicroVAX II that quit working when it was moved just...
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Brian Inglis might have said: In my experience the house wiring was colour-coded using standard quad (two pair) or three, four, or twenty-five...
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Bill Gunshannon I remember a 4 party line at one time. But I also remember when I picked up a phone I heard some...
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Christopher C. Stacy I'm embarbutted to admit it, but I didn't know about...
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I'll admit to a large dislike for mechanical switching mechanisms, which caused me to avoid them...
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10 pps. And indeed one problem with tweaking anything to use faster pulse rates was the fact that in many instances, with mechanical switching, the dial pulsing...
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Yes, there of course are specifications pulse speed, make-break ratios, inter-digit time, as well as minimum and maximum loop current, both for what a dial mechanism should generate and...
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Tell me about it. If I call my ISP, no matter what the problem is, the first thing the droid asks me...
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Michael Roach Dell Hell Chapter One: I can feel the inside of my ear twitching!!!!!!!! Me...