Ah, Z80s (deep sigh). Those were the days! You could disassemble the
entire CP/M operating system (including the BIOS), and still have many
Kb to play with! Real programmers don't need gigabytes!
On 29/09/2021 03:03, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
On 2021-09-29 at 09:21:34 +1000,
Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:10 AM <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
On 2021-09-29 at 11:38:22 +1300,
dn via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
For those of us who remember/can compute in binary, octal, hex, or
decimal as-needed:
Why do programmers confuse All Hallows'/Halloween for Christmas Day?
That one is also very old. (Yes, I know the answer. No, I will not
spoil it for those who might not.) What do I have to do to gain the
insight necessary to have discovered that question and answer on my own?
You'd have to be highly familiar with numbers in different notations,
to the extent that you automatically read 65 and 0x41 as the same
number ...
I do that. And I have done that, with numbers that size, since the late
1970s (maybe the mid 1970s, for narrow definitions of "different").
There's at least one more [sideways, twisted] leap to the point that you
even think of translating the names of those holidays into an arithmetic
riddle.
... Or, even better, to be able to read off a hex dump and see E8 03
and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian".
59535 big endian. Warningm flamebait ahead: Who thinks in little
endian? (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always
did things backwards.)
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