Tell me. Ages ago, i wrote a goodly set of multi-million digit arithmetic routines (you know, My Dear Aunt Sally) that required multiple re-use of memory address space. In the process, i discovered that "buffer overflow" is impossible with easy programming. Ditto concerning "memory leaks".
...and in the past, FPU multiply and/or divide errors.
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Do not forget, with some languages and some machines, one can have PLUS zero, MINUS zero, and an UNSIGNED zero. ..and still conform to IEEE technical machine representation standards.
The original version of NT had a small, clean, pretty secure kernel.
Then some Micro-idiots took over and broke it.
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al time video effects with a Z80B and 768KB of RAM in broadcast quality Syst em M color. The edit controllers for the Sony U-max (3/4") and the 2" Reel to Reel VTRs used 6502 processors. Those MAC computers were always crap, fo r real work. The Commodore Amiga with the external Video Toaster hardware w as much better, and cheaper.
So, the film department got all new equipment, every term? Or were they luc ky to get some repairs on 40 year old cameras and film processing equipment ?
An Amiga with the Video Toaster was around $3,000. It didn't need all night to process video. A pair of U-matics and edit controller were about $5,000 , including two 19 inch monitors. The CATV headend I maintained in the earl y '80s had a system from Panasonic. They pinched pennies tighter than any c ollege.
So what if old computers were used for Email servers? The secretaries had n ice new computers at Microdyne, but Production was still using machines bac k to the XT. Some, because they were the only ones available, and others to support programming of obsolete PLA and very early EPROMS. I had to laugh at the Y2K 'expert' hired to make sure that every system was compatible. He was complaining that he couldn't get into the BIOS of a Zenith computer. I told him that it was a dedicated XT, with no real time clock. I had to lau gh even harder when he said that we would have all new computers within a m onth. He was the same fool who ;upgraded' a Windows 2.0 system too Win 95 w ithout asking. He wiped out all of the test software that would only run un der 2.0, without making a backup. It took me almost a full week to rebuild the files from multiple, partial backups. The test software was written by Scientific-Atlanta, but they had disposed of all traces of the automated te st system after they lost a patent infringement lawsuit, and contracted wit h us to build the est of the equipment they had contracts for. The settlem ent inculded them giving us all files, and the test system.
Something is relevant, but not the silly 'heading' information. You want a few days notice for heavy weather, and you got it. Modeliing works, you just want to quibble about error budgets, and you aren't good at it
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Huh? Hurricane paths are tricky, but Seattle is 45 degrees and rainy, late September through May. That's MORE than seven days from now...
"Zero accuracy"... is not a sensible measure.
Why yes; the Pentium X86..
Neither mercury delay lines nor later on core do not care, if it is data or instruction. After all, a core memory read is actually read/modify/write cycle. Only when using true (E/P)ROMs in which the chips are programmed outside the computer and the program is 'loaded' by inserting these chips into sockets, there are some benefit but of course this can be don also in von neumans.
There are some advantages of using separate address spaces, one is that since the same address can appear twice, you may save up to one address bit at he cost of separate instructions for different address spaces. Also the word length for D and I space can be different e.g. the I-space might be 13 bits to better suite the instruction set with D-space of 8 or 16 bits.
Unfortunately different word length also makes loading constants from I space to D space becomes harder needing special instructions, possibly with sign or zero extend.
If you intend to load programs from secondary storage, such as disks, at least the program loader must be able to write to I-space. The same applies of course to implementing virtual memory paging, which becomes nastier with dissimilar word lengths.
Did they port OS/2 to iAPX432 with a huge number of segments in the hardware, thus each object could be given an own segment ? The iAPX432 is an other story :-)
As I understand , the OS/2 just exploited the segment protection bits in x86 and there was only as many separate segments as there are segment registers. The 386 added some registers but still not much.
Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
No, you dippy twerp. If the soap in the john is clean, good soap, the kitchen likely uses it as well.
There is never any guarantee at any kitchen anywhere that soap gets used at all by any food service personage.
What I also was getting at is that the foam style soap and dispenser model that surgeons use is in use at that location mentioned.
The soap itself is only chemically the same. Exact same ingredients in the exact same proprtions. The difference is the sterile manufacturing and packaging certification and process. It is made on a line specific for sterile goods, and it gets tested constantly for any chemical of biological contaminants in any of the machinery of passages or lines.
So, it only matters if *I* use the soap. And if I eat I hope I can 'rest assured' that the staff uses it as well. Otherwise, I do not eat there, I only shoot pool. There are dumps like that (places that look so bad I only shoot pool there), and folks talking about how good their food is, but you won't see me ordering any of it. I have to watch where I step when I go outside for a toke.
Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
I use one of the paper towels I pull to turn off the tap and open the door as I pitch it, and I take one for the front door too. :-)
I also told the staff to be wary of door handles too, but their restroom actually smells like it is kept clean unlike so many I have entered and wished I could jump right beck out of.
I worry about how long between beer tap & line clean outs and how well it gets done. I have gotten sick after merely having a beer at a certain bar. The alcohol doesn't kill it all, though I sure am glad I am not from the 17th century. They were lucky they had beer and wine. Some folks would not even be here. Don't drink the water.
Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Bullshit. A city planner sits on his ass 200 days out of the year.
Boilerplate traffic light control programs get put in place when intersection usage numbers are easily analyzed and utilized to put better programs in each light. When millions of dollars are charged each year by private traffic hardware maint companies one would think the job would get done right. You are miles off the mark saying that them playing dumb is them doing their job.
Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Nice try. Made up total bullshit.
There are no hardware upgrades. They are ALL using fifty year old technology. They are ALL addressable via phone line modem.
The problem is that even though sensors are in place and the light is programmable to operate based on traffic flow, they set them to TIMER during the day and only turn on the multi-million dollar washing machine realy timer to priority mode AT NIGHT.
More sensors are needs further back on the road so upcoming traffic can be known and better managed and that will save fuel. A light could be switched for cars such that stopping is not needed nearly as often, instead of stopping a group of upcoming cars to let one car go. The current sensor/controller set up is sad and broken and when one fails it takes weeks or months to get repaired or they simply switch the light to timer all day and never repair the failed sensor.
Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Stop pissing and moaning.
LED lighting would be 5 times less power so setting up an 8 hour or
12 hour backup in the head with the LED electronics would not even be as heavy as they currently are. It would keep dark streets lit during a blackpout however. You seem to think we do not need any street lights anywhere. The whole reason we have them is to light the street at night. So it is as important to have the light as it was to actually place the light there to have. Having a fail on power and still being able to see is a very good thing. Why you would even question it is curious and an indicator that you do not really have that great a grasp on things.Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Damn boy you think of some stupid irrelevant s*it.
Cities PAY for the juice that lights the streets. They always have in every city I ever knew of in the US at least.
THIS system would be 5 times less power. THAT would PAY for the new hardware in pretty short order, dingledorf. I would constantly beat out decades of high wattage use. That is hard cash in a budget, sonny.
Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
You are too stupid to know. Obviously.
Watts is watts, boy.
Dollars is dollars.
5X savings is 5X savings, dipshit.That means one fifth goes to the new lamp and four fifths STAY in the COFFERS!
Are you so pathetically stupid that you are in this group sans math skills?
Your active brain cell count is marginal.
Doesn't really matter what soap if it isn't used.
You are starting to catch on.
Yes, you *hope* the staff uses it as well. So there really isn't any point to all your concerns about the soap.
I forgot who I was talking to. No need to discuss the facts, you have already decided what you want to believe.
Yes indeed. You know all, you tell all. Unfortunately it's all wrong. Wait! Where have I heard that before?
BTW, this was some 20 years ago, so the equipment was only 30 years old at the time. lol
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