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by erwan577 4y ago
Bisqwit's nesemu1 source is 940 lines at https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/kuvat/programming_examples/nese... It also uses SDL. NES emulation is a great low level programming project and the tradition will pr
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by erwan577 4y ago
I strongly agree with the point the problem was that compilers weren't using these addressing modes at all at least in the 80s microcomputer compilers were very primitive compared to what we have now which maintained a strong need for
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by erwan577 4y ago
Rust should help with the stability issues that plagued the 80s/90s before fully enforced memory protection. Now I wonder if MMU really brings other benefits. In my latest workstation, I do not use virtual memory to use the disk as ext
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by erwan577 4y ago
I was a user at the time, and also a reader of many computing magazines. GUI environments of the 80s all brought multitasking with them, and system stability was mediocre to very bad... All writers pointed to memory protection as the cure o
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by erwan577 4y ago
One of the idea I take from the piece is that CPU design success is intimately tied to the software ecosystem of the day and Memory Management Units were a big thing for C langage multitasking. I wonder if Rust or similar could make the MMU
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by erwan577 4y ago
In my experience, your point is mostly true in academia and business settings. The "foundation" layer of CS only brings a negligible number of jobs. But with the global availability and affordability of computing devices plus the
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by erwan577 4y ago
Beyond the tiny binary result, I understand that Justine want the OS maintainers to understand that there is value in supporting a common ABI and that there are very little changes to do for that once they already standardized on the CPU ar
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by erwan577 4y ago
I forgot to say that TC simulator aims to high performance. That makes it more fun to use than Logicsim even if the feature set is more limited for now.
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by erwan577 4y ago
Turing Complete is maybe more a tutorial in digital logic coming with its own simulator than a game. It is designed to feel like a puzzle game and is distributed on Steam but that's only the surface... Building your own CPU and program
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by erwan577 4y ago
If Mac are so expensive why are hackintoshes still out of favor ?
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by erwan577 5y ago
Is there any clue in the story as to why the meta professions are kept secret from the general public ? Is there a sociological aspect in the story ?
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by erwan577 5y ago
Windows used to make a sound when shutting down too... This page has the files for the default system sounds for Win95. https://www.rjgeib.com/about-me/sounds/sounds95.html You can see that there was a sound when
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by erwan577 5y ago
This is a very different question from the root parent. I used my first computer in the early 80s so my answers can relate to a very different world/context than ours now. First personal computer users had only experience with mechanic
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by erwan577 5y ago
the energy market price record is real, so click-bait aspect is relative.
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by erwan577 5y ago
Isn't it the first sense of the verb to compile and a return to the original way of doing things ? (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources. Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most inf
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by erwan577 5y ago
In your colored car analogy all cars use the same fuel. An Apple computer with a different chip arch will use different software. Yes fat binary are a thing but anyway all different archs should be tested separately. This is a real bummer e
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by erwan577 5y ago
So if you are a self motivated CS type of person considering what kind of education is available to you and that "socializing" is not your panacea, is there any alternative to the traditional college? Would Bill Gates still drop
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by erwan577 7y ago
This byte article does not seems concerned about the choice of endianness (big-endian or little-endian).
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by erwan577 7y ago
Is there any practical way to review all the links to my shared Google Photos and maybe disable sharing of most of them quickly ?
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by erwan577 8y ago
Metamath is very different from an initiative to make math more accessible. This is a specialist project to write formal/mechanical proofs of many theorems. I would be curious to discuss how this can be useful in practice for laypeople