CompuServe Thread

Silver

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#104515From: John DraperJan 21, 1988 3:10 AM
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#104622From: John FoustJan 21, 1988 9:12 PM
Yes, AmiExpo treated me well. We had a very good response from the crowd and from distributors. I made a wonderful series of contacts for future products, too. I'm back at work! I'm working on the Silver module full time now. It is next on deck. I wish there were more of me. I have another programmer working on our next product that might move out at the end of next month, at the same time as Silver. Harriet is working on new Intuition stuff, too. It was good to see all the CIS pholks again, too. For those of you not in LA, SYSOPS Steve Ahlstrom, Larry Phillips and GreG Tsidalis (sp?) all made it to the show. I saw Bill Leach and Ben "CoComm V31.75a" Blish, too. Did anyone hear the final gate count? I heard a rumor that someone was printing fake badges with a laser printer, and scalping them outside…
#104674From: Ben BlishJan 22, 1988 7:19 AM
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#104702From: John FoustJan 22, 1988 3:54 PM
Maybe you should have an auto-incrementing version number in CoComm, that hot-patches the version number every time you run it, interpolating the number to be what the version number would be, if you had been downloading the version of the day, as you've been posting. Got all that? 🙂
#104778From: Ben BlishJan 23, 1988 12:23 AM
Unfortunatly, due to the ever-increasing effect of gravity waves upon the numeric inertia of the fractional part of the version number, linear interpolation does not yeild an accurate version number. We have developed a process whereby the version number can be accurately calculated, but unfortunatly, this process strictly requires the use of a 68030 and a 68882 working in tandem, with a concomitant sacrifice of an Intel processor. We're working on it, John, have faith in us. –Ben–
#104791From: Don Curtis/SYSOPJan 23, 1988 1:14 AM
That's because your interpolation of gravity waves doesn't take into account the number of nutrinos times the first prime number consisting of 8 or more digits divided by the old version number factorial. If you had bothered considering these facts…it's a piece of cake!
#104797From: Ben BlishJan 23, 1988 4:58 AM
I understand now (Hitting self in head) Time for a new feature! –Ben–
#104824From: Richard Rae/SYSOPJan 23, 1988 12:37 PM
Right, but he's already got an update to the interpolation program. It's in DL8. 8) Rick
#104897From: BILL LEACHJan 23, 1988 8:53 PM
Oh that sounds like fun! Do you have to actually own the sacrificial InSmell processor or can it be on someone elses system? 73, bill
#104953From: Ben BlishJan 24, 1988 12:38 AM
Any one you can get to will do. They have no personality, since they are simply hive minds – hundreds of 8008's running in series/ parallel, at 2 GHZ. –Ben-s
#105036From: Richard Rae/SYSOPJan 24, 1988 11:52 AM
Ah…. I thought they were matrixed 4004's? Rick
#105204From: Ben BlishJan 25, 1988 2:38 AM
No, no no. See, Rick, and _8008_ is matrixed 4004's.. !!! –Ben–
#105242From: Richard Rae/SYSOPJan 25, 1988 11:49 AM
Well, then, if an 8008 is matrixed 4004's, and an 80386 is matrixed 8008's, then by definition an 80386 is matrixed 4004's! Least common denominator, Ben! 8) Rick
#105322From: Ben BlishJan 25, 1988 8:12 PM
Then, by definition, you're iron, potassium, etc. LCD, as you say. –Ben–
#105323From: Ben BlishJan 25, 1988 8:13 PM
Whatever happened to "The sum of part is greater than the whole" ?? Well, in InSmells case, how about some of the parts are graters on my nerves? –Ben–
#105077From: John FoustJan 24, 1988 2:23 PM
I thought the 386 was eight 4004's in parallel… Just think, your average 386 machine could control up to eight washing machines!
#105209From: Ben BlishJan 25, 1988 2:50 AM
#104882From: Louis MarkoyaJan 23, 1988 7:16 PM
John….when could I expect to see your objects? (Or maybe I should ask, how do I access my personnal account?) I expect to be able to beta test the new much speedier Silver around the first of FEB…………..Louis
#105017From: John FoustJan 24, 1988 10:49 AM
I just need to upload them to you. I was tinkering with Silver objects, making big objects, and I was surprised how big they can get. So RSN. Maybe even today. They will appear in your Easyplex mailbox, and you download them from there. It's all menu driven after you say "go easyplex".
#105106From: Louis MarkoyaJan 24, 1988 5:23 PM
#104896From: BILL LEACHJan 23, 1988 8:53 PM
John: Of course it would have to do an occasional double increment! 73, bill Anyone ever tell you that your partner is A LOT better looking than you are? Tell her I said Hi, it was nice to meet her in L.A. Wow, as intellegent as she is good looking (and that is definately saying something).
#104952From: Ben BlishJan 24, 1988 12:36 AM
Yes… a lot better looking. <grin>
#105016From: John FoustJan 24, 1988 10:48 AM
Yes, Harriet is intelligent and gorgeous. She's Phi Beta Kappa in computer science from Rochester, NY. I swear on a stack of RKMs she knows more abuot Intuition than the pholks who wrote it. She beta tested the Programmer's Suite and found dozens of bugs, she gets calls from Mackraz to find out what she wants in the next revision of Intuition. Amazing. That's why I hooked up with her, I thought she was the best. I teach her about real C, she teaches me about Intuition.
#105119From: BILL LEACHJan 24, 1988 5:28 PM
#105558From: Ben BlishJan 26, 1988 10:17 PM
Yeah – but I agree with you (This time) <grin> –Ben–
#105078From: John FoustJan 24, 1988 2:24 PM
Wait, I didn't caught that crack about *my* looks… She's working in my booth, right? You think she works with me for my brains? 🙂
#105081From: Nick Sullivan/TransactorJan 24, 1988 2:41 PM
#105085From: Marlene ZenkerJan 24, 1988 2:57 PM
#105151From: BILL LEACHJan 24, 1988 10:15 PM
#105168From: John DraperJan 24, 1988 11:09 PM
#105228From: Ariel ButlerJan 25, 1988 10:51 AM
I'd like to second that. <grin> She certainly is one of a rare breed. Ariel
#104863From: BILL LEACHJan 23, 1988 5:37 PM
Ben: You both missed the decimal point (V317.5b) 🙂 73, bill