5 Apr
2006
5 Apr
'06
12:59 p.m.
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 01:50 am, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 4/4/2006 at 10:12 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Sounds nifty. But like a lot of other stuff in this industry, probably too
much affected by marketing considerations and not enough by technical merit.
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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
Yup! I just like orthagonality, I guess...
Blame that H-11 that was my first hand-on exposure to a computer for
spoiling my expectations in that regard. :-)
It's funny that the GI CP1600 never caught on--8 16-bit registers, R7 being
PC and R6 being the stack pointer, R4 and R5 being auto-increment and R0-R3
being general purpose. Very clean and easy to program. As far as I know,
the Activision game boxes were the only consumer products to use it.