[cctalk] Seeking Z180 Assembly Programmer

2024-02-25 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
When I was at the VCF SoCal last weekend I met a gentleman who was looking for someone with Zilog Z180 assembly language experience. He says he needs someone to rewrite code in what sounds like some kind of terminal server product he sells(?) to convert the protocol it uses from Televideo format

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Just Kant via cctalk
He meant to say Prolog, not Pascal. Regardless if you want to alleviate all the fuss and mess of running 16 bit wares on modern h/w, just look for a 32 bit cast off. Many appropriate mobos can be had on epay for a song. Now no one I know wants to spend the next 40 years writing 16 bit apps.

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 2/25/24 16:20, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote: Turbo Pascal is even still available as its originators took it back from Borland and made it into Visual Prolog for Windows which has a free personal edition (the commercial license is only 100 euros too). Also there's GNU Prolog if you just want

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Gavin Scott via cctalk
Of course I mean Turbo Prolog there, sorry. On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM Gavin Scott wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM Just Kant via cctalk > wrote: > > > So the portions of code belonging to chatgpt which produce the > > hallucinations have been isolated? > > It's a massive deep

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Gavin Scott via cctalk
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM Just Kant via cctalk wrote: > So the portions of code belonging to chatgpt which produce the hallucinations > have been isolated? It's a massive deep neural network, so you can't really isolate anything. But there are parameters that you can use to tune it, like

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Just Kant via cctalk
So the portions of code belonging to chatgpt which produce the hallucinations have been isolated? Which languages were used to build it?

[cctalk] Re: RD54 Maxtor XT-2190 w/one long meep

2024-02-25 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
It is quite possible to put a touch of watch oil on the shaft of an older drive (without opening it) to quiet the bearings and re-libricate the grease. I'm still running RD54's and RD53's without much of an issue, firing them up every few months seems to keep them happy. Same for RD51's and

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Rod Bartlett via cctalk
35 years ago I got tasked to write a simple expert system in Turbo Prolog because I was familiar with Turbo Pascal. The goal was an application to assist new members of the help desk. I have vague recollections of having to define rules to evaluate answers to simple questions. What I

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Win Heagy via cctalk
I bought a copy at a mall in Nashville TN some 30+ years ago. I was working at an airline at the time and was interested in the crew scheduling problem, as well as all things AI related. I never got too far using Prolog on that particular problem. I found the disks and manual like 13 years ago

[cctalk] Another blast from the past...

2024-02-25 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
So, here I was binge watching a scifi series called "Night Sky", which sadly was not renewed, but I digress... In one of the episodes two of the characters go to see a man who apparently is a monitor for something having to do with the devices that teleport people all over not only earth but

[cctalk] Re: RD54 Maxtor XT-2190 w/one long meep

2024-02-25 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 9:41 AM Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: > > Another trick was for drives whose read/write amplifiers (which were > typically situated within the sealed chamber, thus not replaceable except > in a clean-room facility) had become flakey, and the drive would start > getting

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:36:35PM +, Just Kant via cctalk wrote: > Has anyone used it or something contemporaneous? Not me, at least not yet. I am kind of wet dreaming about it, so maybe one day. > Is it at all applicable to any degree to today's approach to > AI/machine learning tasks? I