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Thank you for making that. There are are articles that mention how we forgot the octal connection to the x86 isa. Your ascii art table is just a really clean way of visualizing it.…

Neat approach. I like how you are trying to simplify the problem.

That was probably an amazing decade for the Bay Area. I wish I was there then to see it.

Truth

I think the Caltrain people ran their stuff on emacs too. https://groups.google.com/g/iphonewebdev/c/s3h8PRyfmDI

Their site is now down. https://www.k1ss.org/ Anybody know what happened? They got some real good buzz here last year.

Ah, sry. I can no longer edit the title.

This is a great list. What is the truth about wine?

What does that mov do?

Not a single person got the watchmen reference

Interestingly, many old workstations that did 3d (primarily SGI), had what was called an overlay plane. This was essentially a separate frame buffer using indexed color into a pale…

Do most people have to go through all of this ceremony or is there typically a JTAG port on a motherboard that will do the trick?

Thanks for writing this up Ken. Strangely enough, I was researching a related topic a few days ago. I was wondering if disassemblers did the right thing with these opcodes. I was w…

At a job I had, they gave people a book titled: Your Mac Is Not A Typewriter One of the big things was the single space rule. Interesting thing tho. Many years later I read on Stev…

Same story for me up to the IBM selectrics.

Same thing with PayPal

Haha - thanks :-) I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.

Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread. In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file…

This is an excellent article. It is comprehensive and has simple explanations.