On 20/09/2017 10:54, Chris Angelico wrote:
What, you take silicon that someone else created?!
ChrisA
well I had germanium for flipflops and dekatron tubes with neon for counters
never built anything digital with valves though
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Op 2017-09-21, Thomas Jollans schreef :
> On 2017-09-19 20:21, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> I do not use UTF-8
>>
>
> Why on earth not?!
Even *More* Older Man Yells at UTF-8?
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On 2017-09-19 20:21, Stefan Ram wrote:
> I do not use UTF-8
>
Why on earth not?!
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On 2017-09-20, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
>> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
>
> AMD2900? That's cheating! You should design and build your
> own logic gates. After refining the silicon to mak
On 2017-09-19, Christopher Reimer wrote:
> Is assembly still a thing today?
Depends on what you're doing. If you're working with custom-designed
boards, you often have to write some assembly for startup and
interrupt stuff. If you're porting an OS kernel to a new
architecture, you have to wri
Larry Martell writes:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
>>
>> Eh, my school never 'ad an electronics class, nor a computer neither. Made
>> programming a bit tricky; we 'ad to write programs on a form and send 'em
>> off to next county. None of this new-fangled VHDL neith
On Wednesday 20 September 2017 10:29:08 Larry Martell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:09 AM, Gregory Ewing
>
> wrote:
> > Never mind that fake assembly rubbish, learn a real assembly
> > language! And hand-assemble it and toggle it into the front
> > panel switches like I did!
>
> 1979, I was
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Larry Martell
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:09 AM, Gregory Ewing
> wrote:
> >
> > Never mind that fake assembly rubbish, learn a real assembly
> > language! And hand-assemble it and toggle it into the front
> > panel switches like I did!
>
> 1979, I was work
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:09 AM, Gregory Ewing
wrote:
>
> Never mind that fake assembly rubbish, learn a real assembly
> language! And hand-assemble it and toggle it into the front
> panel switches like I did!
1979, I was working at Bausch and Lomb in Rochester NY. We had a 16
bit Data General No
On Wednesday 20 September 2017 05:09:53 Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Rhodri James wrote:
> > Tsk. You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first,
>
> Never mind that fake assembly rubbish, learn a real assembly
> language! And hand-assemble it and toggle it into the front
> panel switches
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:50 pm, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:12 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
>>> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
>>
>> AMD2900? That's cheating! You sho
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:12 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
>> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
>
> AMD2900? That's cheating! You should design and build your
> own logic gates. After refining th
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Gregory Ewing
wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
>> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
>
>
> AMD2900? That's cheating! You should design and build your
> own logic gates. After refi
Grant Edwards wrote:
Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
AMD2900? That's cheating! You should design and build your
own logic gates. After refining the silicon to make the
transistors first, of course.
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Rhodri James wrote:
Tsk. You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first,
Never mind that fake assembly rubbish, learn a real assembly
language! And hand-assemble it and toggle it into the front
panel switches like I did!
--
Greg
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:48 am, Larry Martell wrote:
>>> It was my birthday the other day. People at worked asked how old I
>>> was. I replied:
>>>
>>> ((3**2)+math.sqrt(400))*2
>>>
>>> Quite a few people somehow came up with 47. And these are technical people.
>>
>> *headscratch* Multiple people go
On Tuesday 19 September 2017 13:38:42 ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
> I recall giving a quiz to my college students sometime back around
> the late nineties which had a little bit of arithmetic involved in the
> answer. It's been too long ago to still have the exact details, but I
> remember a c
On 2017-09-19 17:46, Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
Eh, my school never 'ad an electronics class, nor a computer neither. Made
programming a bit tricky; we 'ad to write programs on a form and send 'em
off to next county. None of this new-fangled VHD
On 2017-09-19 19:15, Christopher Reimer wrote:
On Sep 19, 2017, at 9:09 AM, justin walters wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James wrote:
On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
D'Arcy Cain writes:
of course, I use calculators and computers b
> On Sep 19, 2017, at 9:09 AM, justin walters
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>>> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James wrote:
On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
D'Arcy Cain writes:
> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understa
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
>
> Eh, my school never 'ad an electronics class, nor a computer neither. Made
> programming a bit tricky; we 'ad to write programs on a form and send 'em
> off to next county. None of this new-fangled VHDL neither, we 'ad to do our
> simulat
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Larry Martell
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:38 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN
>> wrote:
>>> I recall giving a quiz to my college students sometime back around
>>> the late nineties which had a littl
On 19/09/17 19:33, Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:38 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
I recall giving a quiz to my college students sometime back around
the late nineties which had a little bit of arithmetic involved in the answer.
It's been too long ago to still have the ex
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:38 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
>> I recall giving a quiz to my college students sometime back around
>> the late nineties which had a little bit of arithmetic involved in the
>> answer.
>> It's been too lon
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:38 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote:
> I recall giving a quiz to my college students sometime back around
> the late nineties which had a little bit of arithmetic involved in the answer.
> It's been too long ago to still have the exact details, but I remember
> a couple
On 19/09/17 17:52, justin walters wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
Eh, my school never 'ad an electronics class, nor a computer neither. Made
programming a bit tricky; we 'ad to write programs on a form and send 'em
off to next county. None of this new-fangled VHDL
I recall giving a quiz to my college students sometime back around
the late nineties which had a little bit of arithmetic involved in the answer.
It's been too long ago to still have the exact details, but I remember
a couple solutions that would be of the form:
5 + 10 + 1*2
And then the student
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 19/09/17 16:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>
D'Arcy Cain writes:
> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
>
Stefan Ram schrieb am 19.09.2017 um 17:00:
> D'Arcy Cain writes:
>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
>> theory behind what I am doing.
>
> I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
> the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but wh
On 19/09/17 16:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James wrote:
On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
D'Arcy Cain writes:
of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
theory behind what I am doing.
I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Pyth
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James wrote:
> > On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >> D'Arcy Cain writes:
> >>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
> >>> theory behind what I am doing.
> >>
> >>I started ou
On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> D'Arcy Cain writes:
>>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
>>> theory behind what I am doing.
>>
>>I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
>>the BASIC of the 2
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> D'Arcy Cain writes:
> >of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
> >theory behind what I am doing.
>
> I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
> the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO
On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
D'Arcy Cain writes:
of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
theory behind what I am doing.
I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when
it is exe
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:24 AM, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> On 09/19/2017 03:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> How relevant is the "people use calculators to do arithmetic" argument
>>> today? Okay, so I'm old and cynical, but I know [young] people who
>>> don't (can't?) calculate a gratuity witho
On 09/19/2017 03:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
How relevant is the "people use calculators to do arithmetic" argument
today? Okay, so I'm old and cynical, but I know [young] people who
don't (can't?) calculate a gratuity without an app or a web page.
Which is a form of calculator. People still
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