As far as I know, it is not really used any more. But if you're interested, I did a project in college a couple of years ago where we implemented a clone of it in a Xilinx 4025 FPGA.
We actually managed to get it to run (no bugs!) using the EPROM's from an original NC4016 board, so we could hook up a terminal directly to the FPGA and use the builtin interpreter and compiler.
Man, it was cool to see the LED blink from a CPU we had implemented!
As an original black bloc-er circa 1989, I know why we started fighting back. It was due to police being more and more likely to use force to put down democratic protests. We were defending ourselves.
Yeah, right... I live in Gothenburg, which was smashed to pieces by black-block people during the EU meeting this summer.
The protesters claimed that they were "provoked" by the police. What I saw was a police force that did their job professionally and with as much restraint that could be expected from them.
In fact, most people (>90% according to most polls) who live in Gothenburg thought that the police should have used much more force than what they did.
"Aber herr GI Joe, ve zere only defending ourzelves againzt thoze violent jewz. Ve vere provoked, you zee?" I'm not really kidding, that was the argument that the nazis used!
I took his microcomputer architecture class at SDSU back in '93. He was probably the best teacher I've had so far, being real clear and logical. Not to mention a hardcore assembly programmer, having us to do labs using the multitasking mini-OS he had written in 68K assembly...
If I was in an infantry platoon during war, exploding power cells would be the least of my worries. Ever heard of machine gun fire, mines, and cluster bombs?
That is exactly why you'd want a 3 pound generator instead of the 20 pound battery pack I had to lug around when I was in the infantry. And that damn battery pack didn't last us more than a couple of days!
Maybe you use petroleum today to produce the food oil, but what is to say you can't use food oil tomorrow (i.e. recursive production:-) ?
Even if it takes a lot of energy to produce crops it still might be the way to go in the long run, since that energy would come from renewable sources (the sun), instead of ceased-to-be dinosaurs...
When was the patent applied for? I found no link to ibm's patent server. Anyway, I'm not proud to say it, but i wrote a small program in 1994 that wasn't Y2K-safe. I fixed it in 1995 using the 'windowing' fix that has apparantly been patented. I can't believe that every average programmer wouldn't come up with this on his own like I did, therefore the patent should never have been granted... / Krister
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Dude, you need to buy better porn!
As far as I know, it is not really used any more. But if you're interested, I did a project in college a couple of years ago where we implemented a clone of it in a Xilinx 4025 FPGA.
We actually managed to get it to run (no bugs!) using the EPROM's from an original NC4016 board, so we could hook up a terminal directly to the FPGA and use the builtin interpreter and compiler.
Man, it was cool to see the LED blink from a CPU we had implemented!
The schematics are here
Main page (sorry, it's in Swedish...): here
/ Krister
Heh. Reminds me of the movie Brazil :-)
As an original black bloc-er circa 1989, I know why we started fighting back. It was due to police being more and more likely to use force to put down democratic protests. We were defending ourselves.
Yeah, right... I live in Gothenburg, which was smashed to pieces by black-block people during the EU meeting this summer.
The protesters claimed that they were "provoked" by the police. What I saw was a police force that did their job professionally and with as much restraint that could be expected from them.
In fact, most people (>90% according to most polls) who live in Gothenburg thought that the police should have used much more force than what they did.
"Aber herr GI Joe, ve zere only defending ourzelves againzt thoze violent jewz. Ve vere provoked, you zee?" I'm not really kidding, that was the argument that the nazis used!
/d2ksla
I took his microcomputer architecture class at SDSU back in '93. He was probably the best teacher I've had so far, being real clear and logical. Not to mention a hardcore assembly programmer, having us to do labs using the multitasking mini-OS he had written in 68K assembly...
So is the answer 49 then?
If I was in an infantry platoon during war, exploding power cells would be the least of my worries. Ever heard of machine gun fire, mines, and cluster bombs?
That is exactly why you'd want a 3 pound generator instead of the 20 pound battery pack I had to lug around when I was in the infantry. And that damn battery pack didn't last us more than a couple of days!
Maybe you use petroleum today to produce the food oil, but what is to say you can't use food oil tomorrow (i.e. recursive production :-) ?
Even if it takes a lot of energy to produce crops it still might be the way to go in the long run, since that energy would come from renewable sources (the sun), instead of ceased-to-be dinosaurs...
This company is in the same building as I work in, but I don't know a lot about them... http://www.enviromentor.se/
Does that mean that the compilation was done before it was started?
Hey, why not get a patent on a stupid patent system where everyone can get patents for obvious "inventions"?
Then sue the USPTO for violating that patent!
/ Krister
Linux and _is_ available for the Palm. Check out www.uclinux.com. / Krister
When was the patent applied for? I found no link to ibm's patent server. Anyway, I'm not proud to say it, but i wrote a small program in 1994 that wasn't Y2K-safe. I fixed it in 1995 using the 'windowing' fix that has apparantly been patented. I can't believe that every average programmer wouldn't come up with this on his own like I did, therefore the patent should never have been granted... / Krister