You were in good company. The Xerox Alto CPU used four 74181 ALUs.
Somes lines in PDP-11 assembly from 2.11BSD: mov r1,-(sp) mov $1024.,-(sp) mov $outbuf,-(sp) mov fout,-(sp) jsr pc,_write add $6,sp mov (sp)+,r1 tst r0 bpl 2f jmp wrterr
I've looked at a few dozen of the designs featured on the front page, and most of them don't make sense. What is the purpose of this?
The 80s kid me lived in a small town with no access to technical manuals or people who could help. The developer manuals for $80 each or a compuserve account to get access to the source code examples of the manufacturer…
> This is true of any language Is it? Java has changed a lot, but in such a way that it's still easy to mentally map new features to the old ones, provided you have understood the core language. IDEs can even convert…
They still do.
Spanish vale and English value have the same Latin origin. Persian bale is an Arabic loanword.
When reading an article written by Bjorn Lomborg, you should also do the effort to read the cited sources. This is not an ad hominem attack, just an observation. Do it and you will see.
The title says "dialects" but most comments here are only about accents. Can people here give examples of non-standard grammar or vocabulary (that goes beyond some temporary slang or subculture words)?
Great article. Wish list of topics to add: - branch predictors that can detect patterns (edit: I guess it's already covered in the paragraph about raising prediction accuracy) - LRU-approximations in L1 caches - Data…
I highly recommend the NHK documentary "10 years with Hayao Miyazaki" that shows how he works (and also his sometimes difficult character).
Ah, that makes more sense than my theory. It's a weak copy protection method, though, as you can just try and see what happens, and I think they dropped it in M&M3.
A few years ago, I decompiled a good part of the PC version of Might & Magic 1 for fun. According to Wikipedia, it had been released in 1986, although I don't know whether that refers to the PC version or to the…
VisiCalc was published in 1979.
Wow. That's really impressive. Here is more background: https://magazin.wienmuseum.at/die-387-haeuser-des-peter-frit... And the virtual exhibition of the museum:…
That's funny because I have two objects on my desk for which I know that they use 555s. One is a no-name joystick with "autofire" function from the late 1980's. The other is a mass produced motor controller from the…
I don't know much about app development, but I was curious and downloaded the Albert Heijn apk for ARM64. Inside the apk, the three largest entities are: - libflutter.so 140 MBytes (flutter, obviously) - flutter_assets…
Similar results here. I'm curious to know what the problem of Firefox is. For example, the 3d-raytrace-SP benchmark is nearly three times faster on Edge than on Firefox on my i7 laptop. The code of that benchmark is…
I know the answer to 1.5. And I know the story behind 1.6, but not the name of the town... That's it :)
I searched a little bit and found these numbers for t-shirts in a 20 foot container: - Shipping container from China to the US: $3000-$9000 (tariffs?) - Number of t-shirts per container: 35000 How much heavier are jeans…
"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny…
There are two approaches (sometimes mixed): (a) you reverse engineer the application writing or reading the file. Even without fully understanding the application it can give you valuable information about the format…
> and what if you need 1TB of random data? With 48kHz audio you would be waiting 5000 years haha. 1MB is still more than a day I think you dropped the "k" in "kHz" in your calculations.
Yes, but that's my point: the ARM2 cannot get faster than 1.25 MIPS in an Amiga because of the memory bandwidth (assuming that the CPU uses 5 MBytes/s of the available 7 MBytes/s that it has to share with the graphics…
I wonder how much faster the ARM2 would have been compared to the 68k in a first-generation Amiga. The Amiga's chip memory only delivered 7 MBytes/s, shared between the CPU and the chipset! With its 32-bit instruction…
You were in good company. The Xerox Alto CPU used four 74181 ALUs.
Somes lines in PDP-11 assembly from 2.11BSD: mov r1,-(sp) mov $1024.,-(sp) mov $outbuf,-(sp) mov fout,-(sp) jsr pc,_write add $6,sp mov (sp)+,r1 tst r0 bpl 2f jmp wrterr
I've looked at a few dozen of the designs featured on the front page, and most of them don't make sense. What is the purpose of this?
The 80s kid me lived in a small town with no access to technical manuals or people who could help. The developer manuals for $80 each or a compuserve account to get access to the source code examples of the manufacturer…
> This is true of any language Is it? Java has changed a lot, but in such a way that it's still easy to mentally map new features to the old ones, provided you have understood the core language. IDEs can even convert…
They still do.
Spanish vale and English value have the same Latin origin. Persian bale is an Arabic loanword.
When reading an article written by Bjorn Lomborg, you should also do the effort to read the cited sources. This is not an ad hominem attack, just an observation. Do it and you will see.
The title says "dialects" but most comments here are only about accents. Can people here give examples of non-standard grammar or vocabulary (that goes beyond some temporary slang or subculture words)?
Great article. Wish list of topics to add: - branch predictors that can detect patterns (edit: I guess it's already covered in the paragraph about raising prediction accuracy) - LRU-approximations in L1 caches - Data…
I highly recommend the NHK documentary "10 years with Hayao Miyazaki" that shows how he works (and also his sometimes difficult character).
Ah, that makes more sense than my theory. It's a weak copy protection method, though, as you can just try and see what happens, and I think they dropped it in M&M3.
A few years ago, I decompiled a good part of the PC version of Might & Magic 1 for fun. According to Wikipedia, it had been released in 1986, although I don't know whether that refers to the PC version or to the…
VisiCalc was published in 1979.
Wow. That's really impressive. Here is more background: https://magazin.wienmuseum.at/die-387-haeuser-des-peter-frit... And the virtual exhibition of the museum:…
That's funny because I have two objects on my desk for which I know that they use 555s. One is a no-name joystick with "autofire" function from the late 1980's. The other is a mass produced motor controller from the…
I don't know much about app development, but I was curious and downloaded the Albert Heijn apk for ARM64. Inside the apk, the three largest entities are: - libflutter.so 140 MBytes (flutter, obviously) - flutter_assets…
Similar results here. I'm curious to know what the problem of Firefox is. For example, the 3d-raytrace-SP benchmark is nearly three times faster on Edge than on Firefox on my i7 laptop. The code of that benchmark is…
I know the answer to 1.5. And I know the story behind 1.6, but not the name of the town... That's it :)
I searched a little bit and found these numbers for t-shirts in a 20 foot container: - Shipping container from China to the US: $3000-$9000 (tariffs?) - Number of t-shirts per container: 35000 How much heavier are jeans…
"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny…
There are two approaches (sometimes mixed): (a) you reverse engineer the application writing or reading the file. Even without fully understanding the application it can give you valuable information about the format…
> and what if you need 1TB of random data? With 48kHz audio you would be waiting 5000 years haha. 1MB is still more than a day I think you dropped the "k" in "kHz" in your calculations.
Yes, but that's my point: the ARM2 cannot get faster than 1.25 MIPS in an Amiga because of the memory bandwidth (assuming that the CPU uses 5 MBytes/s of the available 7 MBytes/s that it has to share with the graphics…
I wonder how much faster the ARM2 would have been compared to the 68k in a first-generation Amiga. The Amiga's chip memory only delivered 7 MBytes/s, shared between the CPU and the chipset! With its 32-bit instruction…