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stoneyowl2 wrote: My current speedtest results show 987MB Upload and 950Mb download.
Did Clippy not suggest "do you mean kb"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Clippy died the death of one thousand cuts many, many moons ago. His clip has thoroughly rusted away by now 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Not really, at least not here. Just installed Office 2000 on a new W10 machine. Guess who jumped up to help?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Marketing will bring it back, under a new name. Being helpful as always 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Well, I have finally completed my move to a brand new fresh built house. And I have a fiber to the house! My current speedtest results show 987MB Upload and 950Mb download. Seventh heaven, I never have to leave the house (except when she decides we are going out to eat/movie/bar)
Is there a beer fridge next to the desk?
If so, you only need to leave to pick up more beer.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Nope. I dislike beer intensely. I DO have Strongbow in the fridge, which is just out the door of the office.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Michael Martin wrote: Is there a beer fridge next to the desk?
ya gotta evil scientist splice the fridge onto the robo-luggage so it follows you around.
If so, you only need to leave to pick up more beer. amazon [drones] don't deliver beer?
...I see a huge opportunity. (just gotta figure out how to protect the drones from rednecks with shotguns).
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If I'd wanted to make a very bad joke, I would have asked how is life in a wheelchair, but this is too cynical.
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My fiber is "only" 100 Mbps - I could have it upgraded, but I very rarely come across any server capable of utilizing the full full capacity. Most servers won't give me more than 50-70 Mbps, some are significantly below that.
How often do I have 15-20 simultaneous transfers running, each using 50-70 Mbps? Very rarely. Sometimes I have 4 or 5 transfers, filling up the pipe completely, but I never have an immediate need for all those streams; they are typically videos that I will watch later. If the transfer completes one minute later due to limited fiber capacity, it is perfectly fine with me. I do have friends who laugh: Mine is thicker than yours! - but that is all they get out of it. Their real "need" is perfectly well served at lower speeds. So I have never considered the upgrade to 1 Gbps worth the money. Mine is big enough - it is how you use it that counts.
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I need to do some very low-level coding in assembler. I used to do a lot of this, but just need a bit of a refresher in syntax. Does anyone have a decent link for this?
I've been searching, and I can find the opcodes/symbols, but without the syntax. For example, what exactly is the LES format entered?
Even the Intel site doesn't seem to cover these "ancient technologies" anymore... 
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That is awesome. Even though I haven't done assembly language programming since I had to write an OS/2 device driver a lot of years ago, that's a cool thing to have. Thanks!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oh, that's a keeper!
I wish I'd kept all my old (hard copy) reference manuals, but this'll do for starters!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm not sure how relevant the intrinsics are these days, but this documents them if you use them.
Intel® Intrinsics Guide[^]
Explorans limites defectum
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Thanks! I had no idea I would ever need this again. In the 80's I had the appropriate manuals in hard copy, but that was a couple of lifetimes ago.
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I still have a book on x86 assembly coding under DOS (so it covers the DOS ABI and Tandi graphics as well as assembly itself). This thing is so thick, I'm using it as a monitor stand.
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Member 9167057 wrote: I'm using it as a monitor stand.
Still part of the foundation of computing!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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You piqued my curiosity -- what are you doing that requires 8086 assembler?
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Same here, I'm curious too now.
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I am working on a legacy DOS app that I hope to modernize into a Windows app, but it will be in a series of stages. In this stage, I need to write a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) COM application to monitor some of the activity going on in the app.
I wrote similar TSR DOS apps in the mid-80's, but it has been a very long time. It took some special effort to get a DOS .COM app to compile at all with VS 2019 - no MASM (done under C++), and the Linker doesn't get some of the options that used to be available...
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I figured the need had to be some type of legacy application or hardware. Good luck with the effort!
BTW, a friend's organization has some specialized hardware that runs only on a 286. They have had the same PC in production since ~1990. I have no idea what they will do when the PC finally fails.
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That's the exact same problem the users of this application have - their old hardware (for DOS) is failing. That includes printers that handle straight ASCII output.
If your friend is interested, I might be able to provide some guidance or assistance on this...
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Andreas Mertens wrote: If your friend is interested, I might be able to provide some guidance or assistance on this...
Thanks for the offer, but my friend is not responsible for the situation nor directly involved. The responsible folks are utilizing the time-old method "lots of praying" in lieu of replacing the hardware. When it eventually fails they will be forced to buy a new solution.
I suspect they are ignoring that corollary to Murphy's Law that states, "hardware failure will occur at exactly the worst possible moment".
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