Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: dvus Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Floating Point Test Suite Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:20:39 -0500 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <4gmfhc-bl4.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <8fuhhc-nbc.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net w0V66E74PHlFL7N7KmjL3gKPwb1Y7IoMeBoMUASjUGshzlbZfr Cancel-Lock: sha1:+lcI5KqLLZUmyOGWM/AyTL9m/ZY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 151114-1, 11/14/2015), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:533175 On 11/14/2015 2:13 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > Fabian Russell wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 04:47:20 +0000, jimp wrote: >> >>> >>> I would suppose your method would be a custom designed controller >>> running the total system cost so high no one could afford the >>> end product. >>> >> >> How about Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the king of Saudi >> Arabia? >> >> I think he might be very interested. >> >> >>> >>> just goes to show how little you know about real world >>> programming in general and process control in particular. >>> >> >> I don't want to know. >> >> But if I wanted to know, then I'd know. >> >> Microcontrollers are the moist boring things imaginable >> and would only interest a technical-grade moron. > > I on the other hand find microcontrollers, which enable one to build > real autonomous machines, to be extremely facinating. > > I find watching a machine do what it supposed to do while running > the code I wrote to tell it how to function the most satisfiying > type of programming no matter what the CPU is. I too enjoyed that part of my job immensely. I used to program microprocessors to run elevators and the best part was giving an owner desired features never before possible with relay logic. Give me enough I/O and I could make it do almost anything. > You may sit in your bunker and watch the results of floating point > arithmetic flash by to your hearts content. -- dvus