On 30/09/21 7:28 am, dn wrote:
Oh yes! The D2 kit - I kept those books for years...
https://www.electronixandmore.com/adam/temp/6800trainer/mek6800d2.html
My 6800 system was nowhere near as fancy as that! It was the
result of replacing the CPU in my homebrew Miniscamp.
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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,
On 29/09/2021 19.16, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 29/09/21 3:03 pm, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
>> Who thinks in little
>> endian? (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always
>> did things backwards.)
>
> The first CPU I wrote code for was a National SC/MP, which doesn't
On 2021-09-29 03:03, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
On 2021-09-29 at 09:21:34 +1000,
Chris Angelico 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 wrote:
>
> > For those of us who remember
On 29/09/21 3:03 pm, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
Who thinks in little
endian? (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always
did things backwards.)
The first CPU I wrote code for was a National SC/MP, which doesn't
have an endianness, since it never deals with more
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:06 PM <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
> > ... 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 o
On 2021-09-29 at 09:21:34 +1000,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> ... read off a hex dump and see E8
> 03 and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian".
ITYM 000,1 little-endian. ;-)
(Or possibly 000.1, depending on your locale.)
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On 2021-09-29 at 09:21:34 +1000,
Chris Angelico 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 wrote:
> >
> > > For those of us who remember/can compute in binary, octal, hex, or
> > > decimal a
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:59 AM dn via Python-list
wrote:
> If I hold up two fingers, am I insulting you, or asking for three of
> something?
>
A Roman soldier walked into a bar holding up two fingers. "Five beers, please"
ChrisA
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On 29/09/2021 12.21, Chris Angelico 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 wrote:
>>
>>> For those of us who remember/can compute in binary, octal, hex, or
>>> decimal as-needed:
>>> Why do p
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:06 AM Greg Ewing wrote:
>
> On 29/09/21 12:21 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > to the extent that you automatically read 65 and 0x41 as the same
> > number.
>
> Am I too geeky for reading both of them as 'A'?
>
Not even slightly, and I did deliberately choose a printable A
On 29/09/21 12:21 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
to the extent that you automatically read 65 and 0x41 as the same
number.
Am I too geeky for reading both of them as 'A'?
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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 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 Chr
On 2021-09-29 at 11:38:22 +1300,
dn via Python-list 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 i
On 29/09/2021 10.50, Stefan Ram wrote:
> (For Python programmers who have watched "Game of Thrones".)
>
> |>>> class girl:
> |... pass
> |...
> |>>> girl = girl()
> |>>> print( girl.name )
> |Traceback (most recent call last):
> | File "", line 1, in
> |AttributeError: A girl has no name.
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