17 Apr
1999
17 Apr
'99
5:32 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
You were the one who mentioned the graphics so one
could see what was going
Well, there you go again, misattributing quotes. I never said such.
on. What I had in mind was a computation, e.g
"compute the product of three
M x N x L matrices, where M, N, and L are <127, containing prime decimal
numbers of not more than 511 and not fewer than 256 digits each".
Ok, so is the exercise to write such an algorithm, or to write a simulator
that will then run the code for this algorithm? Or do you want to create
a board that runs the simulator to run the code for the algorithm? I
think to make this worthwhile, we should write a simulator that simulates
the board that runs the simulator that the code will run on.
An environment has to be selected for a task like
this. You know what I
mean. There has got to be some limit on how much a process is helped or
hindered by the environment.
Ok, the environment is any home micro from the 70s or 80s that ran on any
processor. The more rudimentary the processor, the more points you get.
I choose the 4004.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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