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Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4302
Brian, My point was that I actually HAVE the Nuance SR engine accepting pretty much unrestricted speech and utilizing "semantic granularity" to increase the accuracy sufficiently that it can then...
Best Font was Comic Sans was An alternative history
Toby, YES, we are finally all (or mostly all of us) on the same page now. To avoid another few hundred postings and to produce the best practical result, would you (or...
Optima, and humanist sans, Comic Sans was An alternative history
On 29 Aug 2006 22:40:39 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, "toby" Bitstream's fonts always seemed to look better...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4305
Peter Flbutt It was originally a Monotype design, long before "desktop publishing". MS went to Monotype for their "PostScript-alikes", Arial, Courier New*, and Times New Roman...
ChenHo Encoding... In 1964
Probably not, but a sentence in the article by Amdahl, Blaauw, and Brooks in the IBM Journal of Research and Development wherein the architecture of the...
Looking for references to playing fightsongs on computers 4307
The mechanisms by which this was done vary. The example with which I am most familiar, relates to...
Looking for references to playing fightsongs on computers 4308
Some of us in high school in Southern California were doing this in the spring of 1968 plus 1, with an hp9100a programmable that people were doing this with computers, and we had a...
Low cost SMD Oven for making SMD samples and Prototypes
This SMD Oven Controller (SMDOC-01) is designed to use with a toaster oven. It provide a low cost solution for making SMD prototypes and samples. The temperature profile is similar to the expensive industrial...
Was FORTRAN buggy
I was glancing at a book I had, "Introduction to Data Processing", based on an internal IBM course about computers. I...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4311
FWIW a copy of the original Fortran (I) manual is available at Note that READ and FORMAT existed in Fortran (I). READ was originally intended to read...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4312
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:26:09 -0400, Joe Morris wrote Yeah, well, I'm still around and playing computer on a Saturday instead...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4313
I'm no expert on floating-point routines, but I'm not altogether sure that the Fortran library didn't use tables of some sort. FYI (espcially for Barb...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4314
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:09:03 -0400 in alt.folklore.computers, krw My bugbear is the consistently...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4315
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:24:39 +0100 in alt.folklore.computers, Andrew Speaking as a Structured Programming zealot (analprogrammatus zealoti), they're a totally different genus: malaprogrammatus ignorami. But if it takes five...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4316
one of the reasons a lot of locations liked cp67 (and vm370) was full source distribution (and in fact, even monthly PLC maintenance was full...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4317
On Thu, 14 Sep 06 11:05:56 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, I will remove unused args from lists, and useless return values. If...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4318
vm370 was completely shipped and maintained in source form. it officially ran on 370-135 thru 370-168 (maybe .2 to 3.5mips, better than...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4319
It was more of not having the QA reporting to the same cost center manager. To settle disputes of even small detail took trip up many layers of the...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4320
re: it was worse than that ... NJE grew up out of HASP networking, some amount of it had been done at TUCC. HASP had a one byte index...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4321
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:29:58 -0500 in alt.folklore.computers, Charles TECO wasn't too bad if you programmed using indented source...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4322
part of the issue was that the official-strategic communication product was SNA ... which had effectively large...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4323
re: oh and some of the dumb terminals weren't necessarily so dumb ... there were also things like huge numbers of ATM (automatic teller, aka cash) machines for...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4324
Because a debugging session of a device driver that you just wrote doesn't need a test for every bug. We would have never shipped...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4325
But there are now. Why should we not use them because they weren't handy when you were working on TOPS-10? I'm not saying that...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4326
I don't believe that there are good emulators. Sure, they're better than before. But they are not good where...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4327
That's my point. These can be impossible to fix because the new circuitry cannot be modeled into the code even though...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4328
the other issue with faster clocks is that latency across the chip is becoming significant. with multiple CPUs on the same...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4329
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:19:25 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, John Barry Boehm, et al. Software cost estimation with Cocomo II (with...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4330
some claim that putting in a non-engineering type as head of the disk division in the late 70s was...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4331
And the bosses would much rather believe what they *want* to hear, rather than paying attention to reality. Thus the following: In the beginning was the DEMO Project. And the Project...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4332
the cp67h updates to cp67 kernel (runs on 360-67, provides 360 virtual machines, and 370 virtual machines as an option). cp67i updates to cp67 (at least thinks it...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4333
Yes, I understand this. That's why the Jupiter was an emulation. Right. However, I keep running into people who believe that the emulator is always equal to...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4334
Unfortunately. It is causing a belief that what works on a TTY screen is reality. I started noticing this atbreastude about 10 years ago. It's now crept into...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4335
On Wed, 20 Sep 06 12:38:02 GMT Many years ago I first came across a piece of software running...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4336
On Tue, 19 Sep 06 11:34:50 GMT No but I'd feel more comfortable knowing that every software update...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4337
But don't you see? In order to reproduce every form of hardware failure of a piece of gear, you have to have the...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4338
On Wed, 20 Sep 06 12:29:17 GMT True - and even then you won't catch them all. Think...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4339
Of course. Murphy's Law makes this true. What pieces of this goes into the monitor's error handling? Is there any process for ensuring that this stuff gets...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4340
WHO writes the code that determines these differences? The code has to have a physical thingie to match its...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4341
Well,.. In the case of the IBM 360 mod 30, the unifying 360 architecture definition existed. But the architecture was only implemented for that model via emulation on a different micro engine. i.e. no...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4342
The ECO-FCO (Engineering Change Order-Field Change Order) process was easy. The new parts or modifications were made and tested. Diagnostics were upgraded to test for them. The parts were...
Basic knowledge was: Was FORTRAN buggy
16 ma seems consistent with a spec of "8ma, averaged between 0 and 1 outputs". On what basis do you add the input sink requirement to the output...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4344
i was told a tale about the gov. anti-trust trial ... supposedly all of the bunch testified that by the late 50s, they had all determined that the single most important factor in being succesful...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4345
in the last half of the last century (as computerized dataprocessing proliferated), there were still quite a few people that had been born...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4346
Right. But you can get almost all the way there with a good emulator, and the better the emulator is, the more you can automate. It is a different...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4347
I disagree about the "almost all the way" part. But that's just from experience. YMMV. :-) I understand this. It was what I was bemoaning before we got side-tracked into my learning about...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4348
Not innovation. This allows the user to fit the square peg in the round hole...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4349
i've told stories before about automated regression tests for resource manager but that included a lot...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4350
or the TV, or the Digital Cable Box (which does have a blue boot screen), or the Cable Modem (well it has a web...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4351
On Fri, 15 Sep 06 10:26:17 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, So, if it's not broken, keep on using the same old software, and...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4352
My style was to set a breakpoint at START:: and $X for a while. Remember that we're talking about something 100% unknown to us. When...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4353
snip Yup. (I'm not sure I'd have recognized him from the picture, but I remember the name, just wasn't entirely sure about the spelling.) Nope. I'm not...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4354
Peter Flbutt Same for me, about the same time, but I can't remember the details...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4355
LarryWeiss on the Perq My guess would be that if the Perq people had come from a unix background, the loader (and the object file format...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4356
As with the question of the storage medium for the compiler (elsewhere in this thread) bugginess is usually more related to an implementation than a language, unless the language specifications result...
Was FORTRAN buggy 4357
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:21:40 +0000, Joe Morris The dynamic trajcectory program from NASA Lewis Research Center. Here's the program remarks card and the first...
Any resources on VLIW 4358
so presumably this recent post vis-a-vis vamps and the later i432 misc. collected past vamps postings early microcode effort was "VMA...