This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Programmer Calculator?
Message #44062
Unfortunately, the HP16 is "out of print". I used to have one, but made the mistake of leaving it at work and it sprouted legs :-). It definitely was RPN, but I consider that a bonus, not a short coming! (I'd gladly pay $100 I could get my hands on…
Rud, Because the C cross compiler (for which we had paid about $7500) couldn't handle certain syntax errors and crashed when it encountered them. The point is that I don't think my co-workers would be real happy if I inadvertantly tried to compile such a program while they were in…
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Message #43707
>> OS protection is a *debugging* aid, not a crutch. That may be true in an embedded or single user system but I don't think unix would be as successful as it is if every core dump (of which I've had many, including commercial compilers) caused the entire system to…
I saw Ed's reply and thought I'd throw in my two cents. I've been using Microtec for three years now for 68020 development and while it has gotten the job done, I'm somewhat less than thrilled. We use both PCs and Micro VAXs running ULTRIX (Unix) as development platforms and…
Floating point numbers are not real 🙂 easy to work with but here goes: An IEEE 754 Double Precision (64 bit) number has 3 parts: Bit 63 (the MSB) is the sign of the number. Bits 62 – 51 (11 bits) are the biased exponent. Bits 51 – 0 (52…
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#TIFF
Message #24324
> IBM MAC TIFF conversions: From the May '88 DDJ: "Serious developers and and readers of DDJ can receive a free set of disks for the TIFF Library Package by mentioning this article (Handling Image Files with TIFF) in a request to one of two sources. For a copy of…
In regards to part two, I hope I'm not offending anyone but I believe FOO BAR is a variation on FUBAR which has been known to mean: "&5#+%$ Up Beyond All Recognition"
Bill, The last few pages (starting on page 139) of my printed TAPCIS manual contain a summary of the new forum commands. (I have the January 1989, revision 5.2 version.) If you don't have this, there is a file called CMDS.ARC in LIB 1 of the TAPCIS forum that is…
For future reference, the way to read a specific message, along with the rest of its thread is to use the dvanced entry from the online menu in TAPCIS. Then select ser command and type REA THR NUM:23612 (for example). Then select nline, the Forum you want, and TAPCIS will…
See message 23612 (Try LIB 10 – C Issue)
All the code for the winter or C issue is in LIB 10 – C Issue. If you are looking for Ron Winters article in Automatic Module Control, it is listed as ACM.ASC and a VAX VMS version as ACMVMS.ARC. Note the transposition of letters from AMC to ACM. Good…
Just noticed your editorial 🙂 and thought I'd throw my two cents in. I subscribe to both Dr. Dobbs and Computer Language (Dr. Dobbs 1st) and enjoy them both for different reasons. The articles in Dr. Dobbs tend to be more practical by way of concrete example (with lots of…