With pre-processing: sort the source data so that the same bytes (along with their offsets) are grouped together, then convert this to code. It could be useful for drawing things like fixed sprites quickly.
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lda #firstbyte
sta dest+0
lda #secondbyte
sta dest+1
etc.
lda #0
sta dest+10 ; All the places that get 0
sta dest+29
sta dest+42
lda #1
sta dest+3 ; All the places that get 1
sta dest+82
etc.
Instead of we, how about you move right next to this plant..
But if the only consequence is price, I agree with you. I speculate that the Freeport LNG fire was sabotage. Of course I have no evidence, but many interests are served.. Russia, but also industrial natural gas users in the USA trying to limit the price..
The fire reduced our exposure to the global natural gas market, and the price in the USA immediately plunged:
There was an external serial port as an option, but there was only one slot. So you also had to buy a slot expander (a Multi-Pak).
https://github.com/jhallen/exorsim
8 inch floppies! I remember we had an old GE chain-train printer for it which was awesome because it was so fast.
If hydrogen is widely available, surely someone will want to do this..
This is what the flame looks like:
Or I could upgrade from oil to gas for $14K (to an 82% efficiency boiler). I have a strong incentive to do this since the cost of heating with gas will be 1/3.5 compared with heating with oil.
I think these are insane prices, but that's what contractors get around here. There is a $10K incentive for the heat pumps, but it requires a home inspection and probable upgrade of the insulation. IMHO, the incentive is not enough- it needs to make the heat pumps the cheapest option.
As far as fuel costs, the gas would definitely be cheaper. The electricity comes from gas (especially in the middle of the winter). The price is more because you are paying someone to convert the gas to electricity. The efficiency of getting the heat from gas via electricity is only a little more with heat pumps (when accounting for generation and transmission loss and much higher heat pump efficiency).
Maybe in the future the electric supply will be greener, but it isn't today. They are trying to build a HVDC line from Boston to Quebec for more hydropower, but Maine and NH are not allowing it due to NIMBY (a referendum in Maine, financed by gas companies, killed it).
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
(you have to compare cost of nuclear on first page with wholesale PV+storage energy on subsequent pages).
Nobody would use this kind of lithium ion battery for grid storage. Instead use Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePo4) batteries- no cobalt needed. LiFePo4 batteries are absolutely good enough right now for grid storage.
You can see some of these on "deramp"'s videos (he is selling Altair clones, but even so the videos are great demos).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5b1Xowxdk
The next upgrade to this is something like the AC-30 for SWTPC. It does exactly the same thing, except uses cassette tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvfUJd5PjQ
Then came disk drives, but no DOS. Instead they use disk the same way you used the cassette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCnj8iL1hI
It was up to you to remember which track your file was on..
Next step: file names, but no automatic space management:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4xmZwcM52w
You write files sequentially to the disk, and you can only write to the end. When you delete there are holes. You can run a defrag program to recover the space.
This stuff was all just before my time, but there were vestiges of it in later operating systems in the early 80s.
The user interface could be easier, for example deleting "ahs and ums" and silent time is a bit tedious. Also there are many output options, and it's confusing for a light user which to choose.
I've also used Lightworks, which is much nicer, but not free (except for 720p). Many of the non-free options want you on a subscription basis.
How many of us attempted to automate this process :-)
Compare: FPGA group on USENET, very little spam: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch.fpga
Reddit, full page animated old-spice ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/
Also as much as you dislike google groups, just compare the UI of the above two.. ugh.. of course there is old reddit:
The pace of change is fast, but only because we are still dealing with the consequences of the scientific and industrial revolutions. I now think of all technologies past ~1800 as "modern". Basically you should learn all of it to some degree.
19th century machinist skills? Still useful and valid. The basic design of a lathe has not changed since the late 1700s.
COBOL from the 1970s? Nobody is going to throw away so much working code. The first generation of programmers is dying off only now, trust me this stuff is going to be around for a long time. Same deal with C / C++.
Oil burner heating from the 1940s? It's a convenient upgrade from the prior coal technology (much easier to pour oil than bunker coal). Most of the systems installed are still there and running. Diesel fuel / jet fuel / heating oil is still probably the most convenient to use energy source.
A slight change to how web technologies work? Really not a big deal..
AWS? Their servers are still basically IBM PCs.
I was annoyed at having to use a C64 for one of my first for pay projects, when the 800 XL was so much better as a development machine (yes the sound and graphics were better on the C64, but slow disk and lack of good OS ruined it for everything else). But they correctly deduced that the C64 would have more longevity so they chose it.
I have a recent direct comparison between the two, Prince of Persia. The Atari port is recent:
"Howard Johnson Restaurants - Life in America"
I also found A Beginner's Book of TeX by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy helpful as a quick reference.
Also I have an anti-recommendation for Knuth's TeXBook. I did not find this book helpful at all- too much information buried in exercises (which I don't think is appropriate for a reference), and not enough directly said on how to do useful things. Figure out how to make a table of contents using only the TeXBook..
But generics provide another benefit: in theory with them, the compiler should be able to determine that two high-level types are actually the same machine type, so in the above example, SORT_ELEMENT_TYPE int and long would not generate duplicate code on many machines.
The terminal was pretty nice, I mean the keyboard had a nice feel. I think it deviated from ANSI in some weird ways, it needed its own termcap entry... ah yes, pt1500 I think- 26 rows!
pt|pt1500|gt|t0|Convergent Technologies PT:\
:ae=\17:al=\E[1L:am:as=\16:bs:\
:cd=\E[0J:ce=\E[0K:cl=\E[2J\E[1;1H:cm=\E[%i%2;%2H:co#80:\
:dc=\E[1P:dl=\E[1M:do=\E[1B:ei=:ho=\E[1;1H:\
:ic=\E[1@:im=:kb=\10:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:li#26:\
:k0=\EOY:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:\
:k5=\EOT:k6=\EOU:k7=\EOV:k8=\EOW:k9=\EOX:\
:nd=\E[C:se=\E[m:sf=\E[1S:sr=\E[1T:so=\E[7m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/235492-calculating-with...
"The drop had been scheduled for noon. If she had come through on time and Probability was right about the slippage, it would be six o'clock in the evening, which was too late for vespers. And if it were vespers, why did the bell go on tolling?
It could be tolling for mass, or for a funeral or a wedding. Bells had rung almost constantly in the Middle Ages—to warn of invasions or fires, to help a lost child find its way back to the village, even to ward off thunderstorms. It could be ringing for any reason at all."
We also make cameras, I've become the MIPI expert.
Our bread and butter includes mechanical design, PCB design and firmware / FPGA design. This maybe sounds like basic stuff, but includes things like RF and COMSOL / ANSYS physical and mechanical modeling and simulation.
A startup company in India hired us: they had plenty of software developers, but wanted experts to de-risk the hardware and low level firmware.