a variety of switches available to control readability? You may want a slim, built-in slide-switch; but I want a big ol' single-pole-single-throw toggle switch with a huge, flip-top guard like on a missle launch console!
The algorithm was documented in the manual. I had written firmware for a SASI/SCSI disk controller; the Krunch (defrag) command was a provocative test/demo. I still get a kick out of watching the progress of a defrag utility, even if it's a bit of a placebo:-)
...the Apple II Pascal environment...was incapable of slapping files into whatever blocks happened to be available. I'm not even sure it used blocks.
The Apple II Pascal environment was based on the UCSD p-System. Disks were indeed block structured devices, and all files were contiguous. The algorithm for allocating a new file was to take half of the largest unused space or all of the second largest unused space, whichever was larger. The built in disk utility had a "Krunch" command that sqeezed the unused blocks into a contiguous chunk.
It was murder on a floppy, but big fun to watch on a hard drive:-)
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Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), in small doses, is a tonic for the heart; in large doses it's a poison.
What about foxglove as a virutal reality peripheral device?
No, too much lonliness and guilt already...
Can we ... stop the aging of other cells?
Yes, but immortality is a feature of cancerous cells. That might be a Bad Idea.
The "New York Times" now routinely spells "NASCAR" as "Nascar"...
Many words that began as acronyms come to be used as ordinary words. "Scuba", "Basic" and "laser" come to mind.
Of course, that shouldn't diminish the pleasure of finding the occasional copy error in the Times:-)
a variety of switches available to control readability? You may want a slim, built-in slide-switch; but I want a big ol' single-pole-single-throw toggle switch with a huge, flip-top guard like on a missle launch console!
A late bubble bursting? A lot of innocent people are going to suffer for this: lost jobs, lost opportunity, lost credibility.
Q. What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?
A. Current version needs work. Edit, compile, test, commit, repeat.
...while IE stagnates.
Perhaps you meant to say stagflates:-)
The algorithm was documented in the manual. I had written firmware for a SASI/SCSI disk controller; the Krunch (defrag) command was a provocative test/demo. I still get a kick out of watching the progress of a defrag utility, even if it's a bit of a placebo:-)
...the Apple II Pascal environment...was incapable of slapping files into whatever blocks happened to be available. I'm not even sure it used blocks.
The Apple II Pascal environment was based on the UCSD p-System. Disks were indeed block structured devices, and all files were contiguous. The algorithm for allocating a new file was to take half of the largest unused space or all of the second largest unused space, whichever was larger. The built in disk utility had a "Krunch" command that sqeezed the unused blocks into a contiguous chunk.
It was murder on a floppy, but big fun to watch on a hard drive:-)
Mono is available from Darwin Ports,, among others.
Not that I've tried it:-)
The 7 +/- 2 number may be spurious. Another line of investigation suggests something closer to 4 +/-?. See this related article.