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Re: Mercury

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Mercury
Date 2026-04-02 03:33 +0200
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On 2026-04-02 02:18, c186282 wrote:
> On 4/1/26 15:57, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2026-04-01 21:16, c186282 wrote:
>>> On 4/1/26 13:58, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>> On 2026-04-01, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     One gripe with most LEDs though is that they may START
>>>>>     at 5K but soon 'warm up' to 4K or less. Maybe increasing
>>>>>     use of 'quantum dots' will stabilize that ?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Oh well, I still have a few metal kerosene 'railroad lamps'
>>>>>     with the wick like Farmer Brown would have owned. Hey,
>>>>>     they always WORK ....
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, but they come nowhere near 4K, let alone 5K.
>>>
>>>    More like 2K.
>>>
>>>    However when the power lines are down ...
>>>
>>>    Hmm ... my mother remembered when one of the
>>>    older brothers wired the family home with
>>>    electricity. Before then, 'oil lamps'.
>>
>> A summer when I was about 9, we went to my mother village. They had no 
>> running water at the homes, no toilet. We used the stable. The house 
>> where we stayed had some electricity. They paid by the number of 
>> bulbs. There was one in the main room, but I don't remember about the 
>> bedrooms.
> 
>    Well, Mom lived "on the farm" ... outhouse, hand-pumped
>    water. The brother (ugly guy but super-clever) wired the
>    whole house and then the electric company would connect.
>    He also apparently built their first radio from scrounged
>    parts, including a loudspeaker using an iron bar magnet
>    and glue-impregnated paper. I guess I kind of take after
>    him, though not QUITE as ugly :-)

I built a "headphone", from a kit. Basically a coil and a iron thin sheet.

> 
>    I wonder if they heard that "day which will live
>    in infamy" speech on that radio ?
> 
>    Not too long before he died he asked me to explain
>    exactly how a CPU worked - and I found I could not
>    provide a low-level description. Still can't, have
>    no idea how instruction-fetch/decode/data-routing
>    works at the bare transistor level.

It is actually simple, but using gates, not transistors. Well, 
transistors is one step further, each group form a gate. And a group of 
gates form functions, like registers. It is overwhelming from scratch, 
but if someone explains a function at a time, it becomes 
"understandable". At least an old 8 bit CPU, like the 8085 or 6502. A 
modern one is more steps in complexity.

Nobody can explain or understand a modern CPU from scratch.

And I could not write the explanation of a simple CPU, either. I have 
forgotten many things.

> 
>>>    I just know I've still got one in the back
>>>    of a closet somewhere ... heavy glass base
>>>    you fill with oil/kero, metal wick assembly
>>>    with a nearly 1-inch wick, delicate glass
>>>    chimney you pop on top. They still sell 'em.
>>>
>>>    Amazed there weren't more fires back then.
>>
>> Maybe people used to be careful.
> 
>    Well, you were super-careful or EVERYONE DIED HORRIBLY.
>    Today's western youth never learn that discipline.
> 
>    Oddly ... that old, long-abandoned, family house
>    burned down - because a storm blew a tree onto
>    the electric transformer !!!

Ow!

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  Re: GNU richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-03-30 11:02 +0000
    Re: GNU "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-30 21:03 +0200
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