On Sat, 27 Apr 2024, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I had checked it on an NEC V20, but not on MANY other CPUs.
at least, I think that it was a V20.
The code that I had written to try to identify which processor was running
thought that it was.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosof
How many know that AAM is a two byte instruction, with the second byte
being 0Ah?
Changing the second byte to 8 gave division by 8, etc.
On Sat, 27 Apr 2024, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Only for sure on Intel x86 processors. I believe that the NEC V20
assumes that the second byte is 0x0a and
On 4/27/24 19:09, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> How many know that AAM is a two byte instruction, with te second byte
> beint 0Ah?
> Changing the second byte to 8 gave division by 8, etc.
Argh! I said earlier that the NEC V20 assumed that the value of the
second byte of AAM was always 0x0a. I
On 4/27/24 19:09, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> How many know that AAM is a two byte instruction, with the second byte
> being 0Ah?
> Changing the second byte to 8 gave division by 8, etc.
Only for sure on Intel x86 processors. I believe that the NEC V20
assumes that the second byte is 0x0a and
On 4/27/24 18:46, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> On 4/27/24 17:02, ben via cctalk wrote:
>> Did any one need REAL BCD math like the Big Boys had?
>>
>>
> No, this is a fallacy. Binary arithmetic is as "accurate" as decimal.
> Handling VERY large numbers in floating point loses some precision, but
Did any one need REAL BCD math like the Big Boys had?
On Sat, 27 Apr 2024, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
No, this is a fallacy. Binary arithmetic is as "accurate" as decimal.
Handling VERY large numbers in floating point loses some precision, but any
computer can do multiple word binary quite
On 4/27/24 17:02, ben via cctalk wrote:
Did any one need REAL BCD math like the Big Boys had?
No, this is a fallacy. Binary arithmetic is as "accurate"
as decimal. Handling VERY large numbers in floating point
loses some precision, but any computer can do multiple word
binary quite well.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM Chris Zach wrote:
> Seems the USPS was trial building a system where you could bring a
> letter into a Post Office, they would scan it, then send it to another
> post office in MINUTES using a big packet switched network based on
> PDP11/23's connected to RM02's (y
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office so the
mammals were out of the bag and fruitfully multiplying long before the
rest of the world caught on and started forming committees to create
camel-shaped dinosaurs to perform the same functions. As a result most
of those things wer
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 10:57 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive bullet by going with
> the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect,
> IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels.
>
> I was there. I remember X.400
On Sat, 27 Apr 2024, Gary Grebus via cctalk wrote:
By the time frame mentioned in the article (1981) there were many
commercially available applications. There was also hardware (e.g. from DEC,
DG, HP) that was of a scale where it would be dedicated to one application.
At that time I worked fo
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 12:23 PM Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
wrote:
> Do you guys* think that software drove hardware sales rather than the other
> way around for businesses in the early days?
For medium and large multi-user systems absolutely. At least once we
got out of the era where there basical
On 2024-04-27 2:29 p.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 27, 2024, at 1:15 PM, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
wrote:
I came across this paragraph from the July 1981 Popular Science magazine
edition in the article titled “Compute power - pro models at almost home-unit
prices.”
“ ‘Personal-c
By the time frame mentioned in the article (1981) there were many
commercially available applications. There was also hardware (e.g. from
DEC, DG, HP) that was of a scale where it would be dedicated to one
application. At that time I worked for a company that developed a
database system. I c
> On Apr 27, 2024, at 1:15 PM, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I came across this paragraph from the July 1981 Popular Science magazine
> edition in the article titled “Compute power - pro models at almost home-unit
> prices.”
>
> “ ‘Personal-computer buffs may buy a machine, bring i
On 2024-04-27 2:39 p.m., Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
When you say “software drove hardware sales” do you mean complete software
application systems or do you mean compilers available for the hardware so the
software teams had variety in what they could program?
Up to the ‘90’s, companies had b
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> Cycle accurate emulation becomes impossible in the following circumstances:
>
> * Branch prediction and pipelining can cause out of order execution
>and the execution path become data dependent.
> * Cache memory. It can
I'm a youngster when it comes to this hobby, being manufactured myself
in the early years of the 90's. As such i cannot really quote from my
experiences "at the time", but i have spent many an hour tinkering with
old machines and researching for this vintage (and modern) computing
hobby of mine
IMHO, having started programming in 1977, the thing that drove sales was the
promise of reduced costs just by having a computer that could be programmed to
do accounting type work that would eliminate jobs and thus costs. Mainframes
were very expensive back then so there weren’t many companies t
Hi. Meant complete software application systems, but, of course, it is
eventually powered by language compilers
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit
AI Consultant, PhD
+1 360-838-3675
> On Apr 27, 2024, at 10:39, Wayne S wrote:
>
> When you say “software drove hardware sales” do you mean complete softwar
When you say “software drove hardware sales” do you mean complete software
application systems or do you mean compilers available for the hardware so the
software teams had variety in what they could program?
Up to the ‘90’s, companies had big, expensive hardware and little to no canned
softwa
I came across this paragraph from the July 1981 Popular Science magazine
edition in the article titled “Compute power - pro models at almost home-unit
prices.”
“ ‘Personal-computer buffs may buy a machine, bring it home, and then spend the
rest of their time looking for things it can do’, said
The Altair 8800 used a microprocessor, the 8080, and came to public
prominence in Jan. 1975 in Popular Electronics magazine: "World's First
Minicomptuer Kit to Rival Commercial Models." I have the original magazine
from that era and I remember this quite well as it brought attention to a
mass-cons
It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive bullet by going with
the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect,
IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels.
I was there. I remember X.400, and how NDS was going to be the directory
system that bound us all
I managed to find and buy a fair copy of the magazine on eBay for $150 two
weeks ago.
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit, PhD
Principal AI Consultant
https://tarek.computer
INFOCOM AI https://infocom.ai
> On Apr 27, 2024, at 07:42, wh.sudbrink--- via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry to hear that. Some o
I'm sorry to hear that. Some of the best parts of my S100 collection came to
me by way of either "please take care of this for me" or "come get this or it
goes to the dump". Remember the old "classic computer rescue list"? I suppose
I've been fortunate that I have had storage space and a symp
On 4/27/2024 7:43 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Magazine cover january, and into 1975 the revolution. So I'd say all
year. Not one specific date
I had that magazine. Wish I hadn't thrown it away oh so many
years ago.
But even at that, nothing for me to celebrate. I couldn't afford
o
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 21:52, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Seems like a hormonal problem.
No, there is a problem, but it's your knee-jerk reactions.
Sorry, man, but it is. Charlie's bang on. Also, he's very British and
very sarcastic, in that British way many Americans of my personal
acq
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 03:25, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f
> author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows -
> perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl)
He wrote the Linux column in the UK versio
Magazine cover january, and into 1975 the revolution. So I'd say all
year. Not one specific date
Bill
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 12:05 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> > It really is a momentous event, and should be properly honored and
> > c
Mr. Solomon started talking to Mr. Roberts and Mr. Yates about the Altair
project. What could and could not be done given budget, availability of parts,
complexity of construction, etc. What the potential market would look like.
And, maybe most importantly, the promotion of the project in Popul
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