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Re: The Beep Function.

From	Peter Nolan <peter.nolan40@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: The Beep Function.
Date	2012-01-14 06:16 -0800
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On Jan 13, 11:06 am, "DaveO" <d...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> "Peter Nolan" <peter.nola...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:ff462f86-bd0b-42bf-b52d-
>
> >in Qbasic for example I as a intuitive physicist want to know about
> >every process that happens inside the machine from the sending of the
> >return character into the computer's deepest place and so on.
>
> The first computer I built, and by "built" I mean hand soldered from a
> design published in Wireless World, none of this sissy Sinclair junk, was
> based on a Z80 with a calculator chip as a sort of maths coprocessor. On
> that I was able to program directly in machine code (assembler is for
> wimps!) and I knew exactly what was happening. However in 30 years or so
> since then CPUs have got a tiny bit more complex., the instruction set is
> far more complex and the architecture of the chip is too complicated for
> anybody to fully understand, each member of the design team will fully
> understand their part and have a broad understanding of other parts but no
> individual person will understand exactly how every part of the chip
> functions. As a physicist you should recognise emergent complexity when you
> see it so any attempt to follow the course of an electron through the chip
> is doomed to fail before you start. There is no shame in treating the CPU as
> a "black box" where input A gives output B.
>
> >If I run into problems in the lab doing physics I just dive in with
> >gusto to solve every problem I have ever encountered and that also
> >includes making little programs work to do a job.
>
> So what's the problem? Ramping a variable for the first and last n steps of
> a loop is pretty trivial however I've no idea if it will actually work to
> fade in and out the WAV, the easiest way to find out would be to try it out.
> Never be intimidated by error messages, it's really hard to do any real
> damage in software, generally the worst that can happen is the PC will need
> to be re-booted, not exactly a catastrophe. Also you can learn a lot more
> when things fail. You know that a negative result is not necessarily a bad
> thing, if the LHC fails to locate the Higgs boson it's not the end of the
> world, much the opposite for it will open up a new phase of  physics as the
> theoreticians try to work out what confers mass and the experimentalists see
> if they are right, it would be quite exciting.
>
> DaveO


Hello DaveO,

Check out this great web site:

http://www.particleadventure.org/

Regards,

Peter.

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