17 Oct
2007
17 Oct
'07
6:45 p.m.
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 15:27, Roger Ivie wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Speaking of DDJ, I could still kick myself for passing up on some bound
versions of their early years, which I first saw at a local computer store
one time for around ten bucks each. (Computerland? I forget...) Seeing
them later the price had gone up 3-4 times that high. :-(
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On 17 Oct 2007 at 12:09, Jim Battle wrote:
IIRC, it was in the .01-centennial issue of Dr. Dobb's. I have a copy of
it somewhere, but there's no way I could find it without a lot of
effort. Finally, I recall seeing an article where
somebody took a pocket
calculator chip and essentially poked simulated keystrokes at it and
then decoded the LED driver output to determine the answer. It was very
slow, though, so all it saved was the space of the floating point
library code.
I remember that one. It may have been an early issue of Byte. I
also wondered at the time if any speed was gained over just running
plain old x80 code.