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I spent two seconds on the extra ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I say it's worth 2 posts, Eddie set the bar high, like few others IMO.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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True that!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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A great musician and always smiling.
Legend.
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All Variacs at half power.
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The great beyond know has a super group Rocco Prestia, Neal Peart & EVH 
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family-safe video: [^]
when something emerged from the tedium of complexity, the struggle with bugs, the wrestling match with the limits of hardware and software, the psychodramas of "developers, developers, developers" ... something that approached art ... not just mastery, but, a sense of graceful, playful, unity of mind and context ... always a transient eternity that boomeranged you back to temporal same-old ...
i hold on to those memories now ... dearly ... as, i'm sure, you hold on to yours Quote: "Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion." Marcus Aurelius: "Meditations"
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: the wrestling match with the limits of hardware and software, the psychodramas of "developers, developers, developers" ... something that approached art
Work in automotive, we get those everyday. Most autmotive ECUs have 64 or 129 KB of RAM and a whopping 2MB of flash. They also have to manage signals in real time with granularities up to the millisecond and often are single core, <700 Mhz clock.
It *is* fun.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Only after segmented memory access was pretty much eliminated with 32-bit chips! God - the horrors of that code for breaking the 16-bit memory ceiling!
(I say that as someone who was just dabbling in programming at the time and never did anything with it, and seriously questioned my resolve to continue programming because of it. If you have memories of mastery from those days, my hat is off to you.)
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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16-bit segmented memory... awful is not enough.
that made me sleep for a looong time. i directly switched from 8bit to 32bits and by that time i was seriously behind people using high level languages.
i remember how i tried to create an array of 40k integers and the compiler was like, you run out of memory?
this computer with 2MB of RAM cannot have an array of 40k integers? how is that any better than my C64?
somewhere in the wide open world there were machines with 680x0 Motorola's, but not in my sh*t hole.
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and there are some, now irrelevant, horror stories from that time still in circulation.
how the stack segment and stack pointer are so minuscule that you can have real problems so stay away from recursion.
thank Almighty Bob for the 32bit SP. finally the stack pointer can address the total address space.
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David O'Neil wrote: If you have memories of mastery from those days, my hat is off to you
I remember those days fairly well. In the early 1990's I worked on controller software for a small commercial ink-jet printing system. The app ran under the DOS/4GW(*1) DOS extender, which let my app run in 32-bit protected mode under MS-DOS. Whenever you made an MS-DOS function call or a hardware interrupt was triggered, the extended would switch to real mode, make the call, and then switch back to protected mode. Since this was time-consuming, you spent a lot of effort to not have to switch modes. One of the techniques was called bimodal interrupt handling. You essentially had a protected service registered for protected mode, and a real mode service for real mode. The tricky parts were having the two modes share data and code. Modern programmers would drop their ladyparts on the floor.
(*1) The same extender used by Doom(*2).
(*2) In 1982 I implemented the same hidden-surface removal algorithm used by Doom.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Even with the pointer hassles, it was amazing what you could accomplish in windows 2.1 with 640KB of usable ram on a 12Mhz chip: running multiple apps including Excel that used DDE for IPC.
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Why not ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That's a typical dancer's outfit. The skirt is short so it doesn't interfere with her movements/get hung on the props/makes it easier to be caught by the male ballerina.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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And, along with all the other explanations, Beautiful Legs
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There's a bicycle tour I've ridden almost a dozen times. Two of the regulars are a young Amish woman and her aunt. They ride in ankle-length dresses without any apparent difficulty. Their high-tech helmets and cycling shoes seem incongrous.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Got to get me some of them 'Rose Tinted Specs'... As I recall it was more like hitting yourself over the head with a unicycle. 
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for most of us mere mortals ... those rare moments of mastery and balance are as unforgettable as they are unique 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I'm surprised at how long the bike is able to freewheel round in a circle when she's standing on the saddle and not pedalling
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Fascinating.
And, thanks for the Marcus Aurelius quote. I haven’t read Meditations in almost 20 years. Guess I need to pick it up again.
I had to recognize that I am only the expression and symbol of the soul
- Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Soul and God, The Red Book, p. 234
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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