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COMPASS [for The CDC-6000 Series] Is The Sort Of Assembler One Expects From A Corporation Whose President Codes In Octal.
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COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler
one expects from a corporation whose president codes in octal.
-- J.N. Gray
Related:
Duty, n: What one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde
peedometer: n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes).
The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating system goes through its {main loop}....
peedometer n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes).
The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating system goes through its main loop....
0033 Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal? 0034 Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes?
-- from THE HACKER TEST...
Duty is what one expects from others.
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Often used in opposition to "data", which is the stuff that code operates on....
Life is a series of movements from one chair to another.
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See jump off into ne...
Assembler programmers do it one-to-one.