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| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 05 07:44PM -0700 On 6/4/20 4:56 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > certainly seen it mentioned. Since it's derived as a play on "byte" > -- which means the same as "octet" except in anachronustic usage -- > the spelling I've more commonly seen is "nybble". A system I worked on back in the 80's had a nybble array for some of its data. I didn't design it but had to write code to access it. It was kind of stupid to do, since it didn't save all that much memory after the amount of extra code was taken into account. The software was designed for a system with not so much memory (1 MB, IIRC), but as memory got cheaper during the course of the development, it got expanded to 2 Meg. So it was really pointless, but we didn't go back and change it. >> touchdown horse down the sidelines. How do the Ottawa Redblacks >> celebrate touchdowns at their home stadium? > They chain-saw a slice off the end of a log. Copycats! The Portland Timbers have been doing that for a long time. Except the Timbers, playing the other kind of football, do it after every goal. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jun 06 03:30AM -0500 Mark Brader: >> Pete, and Bruce. >> I don't think I've ever seen this actually being used... >> the spelling I've more commonly seen is "nybble". Dan Tilque: > for a system with not so much memory (1 MB, IIRC), but as memory got > cheaper during the course of the development, it got expanded to 2 Meg. > So it was really pointless, but we didn't go back and change it. I am reminded of Y2K. So did it stop working after 16 years, then? :-) >>> celebrate touchdowns at their home stadium? >> They chain-saw a slice off the end of a log. > Copycats! The Portland Timbers have been doing that for a long time. Ah, but do they have a Redblacks logo printed on the log? > Except the Timbers, playing the other kind of football... American football. There's no accounting for that. -- Mark Brader "Things are getting too standard around here. Toronto Time to innovate!" msb@vex.net -- Ian Darwin and David Keldsen |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jun 06 02:18AM -0700 On 6/6/20 1:30 AM, Mark Brader wrote: >> cheaper during the course of the development, it got expanded to 2 Meg. >> So it was really pointless, but we didn't go back and change it. > I am reminded of Y2K. So did it stop working after 16 years, then? :-) Probably not, but there likely was some kind of strangeness in the dates on files it created. I don't even know if they still sold the instrument (this was an embedded system) after that long. >>> They chain-saw a slice off the end of a log. >> Copycats! The Portland Timbers have been doing that for a long time. > Ah, but do they have a Redblacks logo printed on the log? Of course not. They don't even print a Timbers logo on it. But they've been doing it since the 70s. They're actually on their second official log sawyer. >> Except the Timbers, playing the other kind of football... > American football. There's no accounting for that. No, the *other* other kind of football. Just ask Erland, he knows all about this kind of football. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 05 08:52PM +0200 > couple travel to a fabled Swedish festival where a seemingly > pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked > nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda. I've heard about that one. :-) Midsummer > ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round of the TTC Subway Stations > * A. Geography, or "Museum" > A1. In what city is the Van Gogh Museum located? Amsterdam > A2. In what city is the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum located? Tel Aviv |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jun 05 08:46PM +0200 > 3 In relation to the stock exchange, what three words does the > acronym ETF most commonly stand for? Exchange Traded Funds > 5 What was the maiden name of the Duchess of Cambridge? Bowlers > 7 Which city is the official seat of the EU parliament? Brussels (and sometimes they go Strasbourg) |
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