On 4/12/2018 6:51 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 04/12/2018 03:16 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
Well I have one better with my cpu, a char is -128 to 384.
Care to elaborate on why such a lopsided range?
--Chuck
OK, you forced me to go back to 8 bit unsigned bytes.
Not really, but having 8
On 04/12/2018 03:16 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> Well I have one better with my cpu, a char is -128 to 384.
Care to elaborate on why such a lopsided range?
--Chuck
On 4/12/2018 7:55 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
On 2018-04-12 7:48 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 04/12/2018 02:45 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 04/11/2018 06:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 04/11/2018 02:48 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
I have a nice 18 bit cpu her
On 4/12/2018 5:08 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 11 April 2018 at 17:18, Jay West wrote:
Liam wrote...
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Hey thanks for that link... fun read!
High praise indeed! :-) You're very welcome.
But that assumes local character echoing,
I am sure the google "sear
On 4/11/2018 10:06 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 6:04 PM, ben wrote:
On 4/11/2018 5:21 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:48 PM, ben via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
The FREE fpga development software is only under windows.
Xilin
Very nice presentation by Frank Griesshammer on the subject of the Hershey
Fonts: https://vimeo.com/153653610
He does a superb job explaining how a font invented in 1967 by a mathematical
physicist at a US Weapons Lab became essential for the last 40 years of
technical writing. And is also an
On 04/12/2018 01:37 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
> And, if memory serves, the ":" was coded as a null character, causing it to
> disappear from the end of a line.
It depended on which character set you were using. The CDC 63-character
set didn't use 00, except as an EOL. Colon was octal
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 04/12/2018 06:23 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
>
> \
> I could see lots of problems doing it any other way, just from the
> viewpoint of 'C'. A character on the Cyber 70/170 series is either 6
> bits or 12 bits,
So, it should be pretty straightforward unless you assume that a char is
8 bits, with a signed char having a range of +/-255.
Signed 8 bits would be -128 to +127.
Well, he had previously mentioned NINE bits per character.
Besides, 9 bits and 18 bits improves the convenience of using octal
On 04/12/2018 05:58 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 11 April 2018 at 23:48, ben wrote:
The FREE fpga development software is only under windows.
Some of the older Xilinx software (required to create config
files for their older FPGA chips) will not run on a 64-bit
platform (either Lin
On 04/12/2018 05:57 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 11 April 2018 at 20:21, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I totally agree. I read faster than most people talk and I retain
more information. I'd much rather read 1,000 words than watch a 3
minute video.
Strongly agreed.
Yes, me too! I HATE these
On 04/12/2018 06:23 AM, Diane Bruce wrote:
> Amusingly years ago I worked for Computing Devices Canada that used some
> CDC computers. I was told through a very reliable source that they
> got Unix ported to the Cyber by SoftQuad based in Toronto. They were
> well known as a 'troff house' at this
On 2018-04-12 7:48 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 04/12/2018 02:45 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> On 04/11/2018 06:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>>> On 04/11/2018 02:48 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>>
I have a nice 18 bit cpu here, with only a few hardware bugs.
>>
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 07:16:58AM -0500, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > Looks pretty much like standard C until you get into the minutiae, such
> > as "A character constant is 1 to 4 characters" and page 4-4 "Data Types"
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Looks pretty much like standard C until you get into the minutiae, such
> as "A character constant is 1 to 4 characters" and page 4-4 "Data Types"
> (9 bit characters and 36 bit ints and 18 bit short ints).
>
> So, it should
On 04/12/2018 02:45 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 04/11/2018 06:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> On 04/11/2018 02:48 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> I have a nice 18 bit cpu here, with only a few hardware bugs.
>>> Hmm would it work better if I change that around ideas.
>>>
>>> C
On 11 April 2018 at 17:18, Jay West wrote:
> Liam wrote...
> https://danluu.com/input-lag/
>
> Hey thanks for that link... fun read!
High praise indeed! :-) You're very welcome.
--
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On 11 April 2018 at 23:48, ben wrote:
> The FREE fpga development software is only under windows.
WINE works well now.
I write in Word 97 under WINE on 64-bit Ubuntu. Works a treat,
blindingly fast, and unlike any Linux tool I can find, it has a
working outliner.
VMs are almost trivially easy,
On 11 April 2018 at 20:21, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> I totally agree. I read faster than most people talk and I retain
> more information. I'd much rather read 1,000 words than watch a 3
> minute video.
Strongly agreed.
> Not surprising given how many generations have now grown up watching
> TV a
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 03:48:20PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> The FREE fpga development software is only under windows.
Altera's Quartus II and Xilinx ISE also have Linux versions. They're as free as
the Windows versions.
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