1 Mar
2006
1 Mar
'06
1:30 p.m.
On 3/1/06, Simon Fryer <fryers at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/28/06, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
And in some CPU R0 is a write only register --- you always read a 0
For those who/ve not seen it, it was reprinted (without comments) amongst
some genuine data sheets in the back of _The Student Manual for the Art
of Electronics_. second edition. (FWIW, there are other jokes scattered
about in that book...)
I always wondered to which device /dev/null pointed.
Simon
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"Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to
philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is
the utility of the final product."
Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh