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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: disARMed |
| Date | 2015-12-07 18:22 +0000 |
| Organization | NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 |
| Message-ID | <n44ior02sbt@news4.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
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On 2015-12-07, gareth <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote: > "Andy Burns" <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote in message > news:DvGdnTgMgsJv5PjLnZ2dnUU78f-dnZ2d@brightview.co.uk... > >> gareth wrote: >> >>> Howard S Shubs wrote: >>> >>>> gareth wrote: >>>> >>>>> Actually, I want to do assembler work! >>>> >>>> Then you get to suffer, so the rest of us might live. :-> >>> >>> But 'tis a joy being right up close to the real machine >> >> It might have been on simpler/older architectures, I can only think of a >> few times when saving clock cycles *actually* mattered in assembly >> programming I've done, it was mainly for "fun", silicon horsepower is far >> cheaper now ... inefficient programming still grates on me, just at a >> higher level And the x86 architecture made it a lot less fun. I was an assembly language devotee until then. Fortunately the C programming language came along and I had somewhere to go. > Nowt to do with clock cycles being close to the real machine. > >>> and not distanced from it >>> by some language or OS supplied for the use of the hoi polloi. >> ^^^ >> Someone doesn't know what "hoi" means > > As when you refer to AC current, do you mean? :-) Excuse me while I punch my PIN number into the ATM machine. This message has been brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-04 11:13 +0000
Re: disARMed Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-12-04 11:52 +0000
Re: disARMed Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-12-04 12:11 +0000
Re: disARMed scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-12-04 14:07 +0000
Re: disARMed Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-12-04 13:30 +0100
Re: disARMed cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2015-12-05 16:35 +0000
Re: disARMed Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-04 17:03 +0000
Re: disARMed Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2015-12-04 14:00 -0600
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-05 20:12 +0000
Re: disARMed Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2015-12-07 16:54 -0600
Re: disARMed Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-12-06 13:35 -0600
Re: disARMed timcaffrey420@gmail.com - 2015-12-06 17:28 -0800
Re: disARMed Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-12-05 10:53 +0000
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-05 12:07 +0000
Re: disARMed Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-12-07 06:17 +0000
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-07 10:35 +0000
Re: disARMed Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-12-07 12:22 +0000
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-07 12:32 +0000
Re: disARMed Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-12-07 18:22 +0000
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-07 18:30 +0000
Re: disARMed Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-05 08:11 -0500
Re: disARMed Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-12-05 14:21 +0000
Re: disARMed Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-12-05 13:38 -0600
Re: disARMed Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-12-05 16:45 -0500
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-05 23:38 +0000
Re: disARMed Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-12-05 21:49 +0000
Re: disARMed Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-12-06 08:01 +0000
Re: disARMed hda <agent700@ay.invalid> - 2015-12-06 12:16 +0100
Re: disARMed Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-12-06 16:13 +0000
Re: disARMed Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-12-06 20:51 +0100
Re: disARMed scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-12-07 14:52 +0000
Re: disARMed Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-12-07 14:33 -0500
Re: disARMed jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-12-08 13:58 +0000
Re: disARMed scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-12-07 14:49 +0000
Re: disARMed David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 15:14 +0000
Re: disARMed Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-12-05 08:42 -0800
Re: disARMed Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-12-05 17:20 -0800
Re: disARMed Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-12-05 13:35 -0600
Re: disARMed Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-12-06 03:09 -0800
Re: disARMed Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-12-06 12:16 +0100
Re: disARMed "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-12-06 13:09 +0000
Re: disARMed scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-12-07 14:47 +0000
Re: disARMed "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-12-07 13:38 -0600
Re: disARMed Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2015-12-07 16:37 -0600
Re: disARMed Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-12-08 08:00 +0000
Re: disARMed "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-12-08 07:33 -0600
Re: disARMed scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-12-08 14:23 +0000
Re: disARMed Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-08 11:55 -0500
Re: disARMed Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-12-08 20:21 +0000
Re: disARMed "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-12-08 16:48 -0600
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