There is no PDF. The "Purple Book" was the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual (and later, the IBM PC AT Technical Reference Manual). These books had purple canvas covers, and were 7x9(?) looseleaf three ring binders, with a sleeve box.
I remember the 34010. A fun little chip. I particularly liked the host interface registers!
TI also provided a library for those who did want to use the graphics capability. It came in source code form. This library had errors in it (it wouldn't work right if compiled with the optimizer on).
They also had a font library and a CCITT Group IV Fax library.
I remember the bit addressing. It took a while to get used to opcodes being on mod 8 addresses. The other thing that the 340x0 (I used the 34020, too) had was that you could specify two specific word sizes (anywhere from 1 to 32 bits), so you could move, say, 17 bits in a single pop. Weird...
BZZZT! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
Read the tag to the abstract:
Those skilled in the art may make numerous modifications and departures from the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed invention. For example [...]the software downloaded may be intended to perform tasks such as database management, word processing, spread sheet, games, or other tasks that are not specified herein.
Whoops! Forgot to mention that the bail article even remembered to say that the software is LEGAL IN RUSSIA. Of course, they put it way down at the end!
Front Page article in the LA Times about E-Books and Dmitry. Had a great picture of one of the protests on an inside continuation page (pic not available on line, bummer!).
I used an RCA Recomp III back in '74. Paper tape punch... You didn't program in assembler, you hand-assembled it and punched in the octal code onto paper tape!
And when I was about 8 (1970), I had one of those plastic 3-bit mechanical digital computers... anyone else remember the DigiComp?
Of course, even before that ('74-'77), I was programming really minimal computers, more like programmable calculators... CompuCorp and Litton/Monroe desktop programmable calculators. I could make those things sit up and beg!
And of course, we had the IBM "bubblecards" (not punch cards) that we sent to the school districts UNIVAC.
G-d! It's been ages since I'd heard of that. We had an Axel (back in '80). I don't remember what it did with it, though... this was back before those namby-pamby "Computer Labs" you young whippersnappers have. We had an Axel (version unknown) and a TRS-80 Model I, on a couple of spare desks in the honors math room.
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There is no PDF. The "Purple Book" was the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual (and later, the IBM PC AT Technical Reference Manual). These books had purple canvas covers, and were 7x9(?) looseleaf three ring binders, with a sleeve box.
Most people, even heavy computer users, have never seen an EISA based computer. I've never seen an EISA peripheral card.
I loved my Austin WinTower 433E (and its Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI adapter).
That thing was built like a tank (still running 9 years later, only down for upgrades like disk, and for plant shutdown).
We decomissioned it this year... I should have purchased the puppy on surplus after we declassified the disks... Oh well...
Why not? There's a netscape plugin that runs ActiveX (used to be something called NPEXP). Can't find NpExp, but Esker makes a plug-in that does so...
I have found a truly remarkable crack of HDCP encryption, but unfortunately it is too large to fit in this post (margin of this post?)
Time Mag had a 2 page article - well written
In an example of blatant karma whoring, here it is.
Doesn't anyone remember "Titanic"? (No? Good!) IIRC, the F/X were rendered using Linux boxen.
OK, latest reports were that it hit 96000 Feet.
For you metricheads, thats 29261 metres.
I remember the 34010. A fun little chip. I particularly liked the host interface registers!
TI also provided a library for those who did want to use the graphics capability. It came in source code form. This library had errors in it (it wouldn't work right if compiled with the optimizer on).
They also had a font library and a CCITT Group IV Fax library.
I remember the bit addressing. It took a while to get used to opcodes being on mod 8 addresses. The other thing that the 340x0 (I used the 34020, too) had was that you could specify two specific word sizes (anywhere from 1 to 32 bits), so you could move, say, 17 bits in a single pop. Weird...
CBS News reported on the radio that it was 96000 ft, not 85000.
POSIX support is allegedly going away in either XP or the next version.
Why would amphetamines be OK for fencing? Speed of reaction is incredibly important!
But true...
See this post.
Bridge is already in the Olympics.
As a card-carrying member of the ACBL (American Contract Bridge Leage) I'm ashamed to say that Bridge is a demo "sport" in the 2002 SLC Olympics!
BZZZT! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
Read the tag to the abstract:
Those skilled in the art may make numerous modifications and departures from the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed invention. For example [...]the software downloaded may be intended to perform tasks such as database management, word processing, spread sheet, games, or other tasks that are not specified herein.
Of course! That's a prerequisite for the job. You can't be a patent examiner without one.
Disclaimer: This applies to the US only. Laws in Switzerland may differ, or may have changed since 1905.
Actually, we don't know exactly how Pentium puts their chips together.
Actually, Pentium doesn't put ANY chips together. Intel puts Pentium chips together.
Whoops! Forgot to mention that the bail article even remembered to say that the software is LEGAL IN RUSSIA. Of course, they put it way down at the end!
Front Page article in the LA Times about E-Books and Dmitry. Had a great picture of one of the protests on an inside continuation page (pic not available on line, bummer!).
LA Times article on the bail.
I used an RCA Recomp III back in '74. Paper tape punch... You didn't program in assembler, you hand-assembled it and punched in the octal code onto paper tape!
And when I was about 8 (1970), I had one of those plastic 3-bit mechanical digital computers... anyone else remember the DigiComp?
Addendum...
Of course, even before that ('74-'77), I was programming really minimal computers, more like programmable calculators... CompuCorp and Litton/Monroe desktop programmable calculators. I could make those things sit up and beg!
And of course, we had the IBM "bubblecards" (not punch cards) that we sent to the school districts UNIVAC.
G-d! It's been ages since I'd heard of that. We had an Axel (back in '80). I don't remember what it did with it, though... this was back before those namby-pamby "Computer Labs" you young whippersnappers have. We had an Axel (version unknown) and a TRS-80 Model I, on a couple of spare desks in the honors math room.
Those were the days...
The "Clock Mac" described wasn't destroying the machine. He said to run a full-screen clock program on it!
Maybe they could hire those out of work dot-commers?
This is the main reason I like Linux. No stupid licensing restrictions!!
Except, of course, for Caldera OpenLinux...
It's called "One Time Pad".