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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:33:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: An approaching landmark...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112645#msg-112645</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[SM's post about segment boundaries reminded me of my early days at work in the mid80s. I was design and support for the first public data network in the UK (PSS for anyone who was around then). 
We used core network switches with 128 KB of RAM, yep 128k, and a 6502 processor. So it paged smaller addressable pages in and out as required. When they did code changes, there was a risk of splitting routines across two pages and have them break. The manufacturer had a junior coder whose sole job was to add NOPs to the code until all the modules fitted onto the pages.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:33:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112629#msg-112629</link>
      <author>Violetmoon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I learned my first little bits about computers on a Widget. 

No one believes me, but I figure here, someone might...

Congrats to Skids!!! I was sad to have to be away from the computer yesterday and miss the big party, but hey, bubbly is always good!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:39:15 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112624#msg-112624</link>
      <author>MartinB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am grateful to all the old codgers who somehow battled through all of that ugly stuff in order for me to have more computing power in my pocket than existed in the entire UK 60 years ago.

Not that they did it for me, but anyway....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:30:24 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[While we are down memory lane, the oldest mainframe that I worked on, but not the first, was a Leo 3. I had worked on IBM360s, a KDF 9 and a GEC machine of unknown model before coming across the LEO. Happy days when you worried about making files fit segment boundaries and how to do a random access search when the client had forgotten to mention that the file was held on mag tape..........]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:32:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: An approaching landmark...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112618#msg-112618</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[SM - In C=64 Basic, replacing &quot;= 0&quot; with &quot;= .&quot; saved 11 machine cycles on a 1 megahertz machine. I also remember spending some time evaluating the difference between &quot;If x = 0 then...&quot; and &quot;If 0 = x then...,&quot; but strangely I don't remember my conclusion (but I think the second version won in terms of speed.) I wish my brain still worked the way it did way back then.

.. and yes. We're there now. We've not only arrived but we've turned the page. Yes we have. Yes. (Ahhhh.)

Marrit - thank you, I believe I will have a drop or two of bubbly. It's been a hard few months lately and it's not just old computers that I need to forget.  On the bright side, since I've retired I've become better and better at forgetting about... about the... about the thing that... 

Chocolate, anyone?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:22:37 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Marit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Please, MistyCat, come back and have some of the bubbly - I am sure it will take your mind off old computers and make it easier to join in the Landmark celebration festivities! You have been missed during your absence!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:02:38 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[First thoughts are usually right, and yes, the C=64 it was. The 1541 disk drive used not 6510 (the C=64) but 6502 M/l, the same as the Vic 20, but offset (aargggggh) by one byte (why, dear Lord, why!!!). While I'm rambling, the 1541 code was a rehash of the PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) Dual Drive, and whoever converted it from dual drive to the 1541 deserves either utmost sympathy (if s/he had no control) or a violent death, depending on whatever degree of responsibility or control over the result that person had. In my (hugely less than humble concerning 6502 and 6510) opinion, the 6502 code converted for use in the 1541 consisted of large chunks of efficient, concise and elegant code from the PET tied together with raw and bleeding clumps of binder twine (and I'll mash my metaphors however I please) for the 1541. The most glaringly, blatantly crepuscular (that doesn't mean what you think it means) example of that was the &quot;Save at zero (S0:)&quot; bug, finally proven to Commodore and demonstrated by (bugger. My memory's failed. Butterworth? What the hell, if you care, you know, and if you don't care, you stopped reading three whinges and a grizzle ago) .. and why the hell am I raving on in a thread named &quot;An approaching landmark...&quot; when all this happened before most of you were born?

This comment brought to you by Offtopic Overachievers Not very limited at all Pty, but totally sober no matter what you think and just because I've held this grudge for nearly thirty years is no reason to think that I hold any ill will at all against those &amp;^%($%, $%^&amp;*# mmpphh ... 

(Exits stage left, accompanied by firm resolve not to re-read this in the morning.
And chocolate, because everything's better with chocolate.)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:08:39 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I remember replacing all the &quot;= 0&quot;'s with &quot;not Pi&quot;'s in a Sinclair Basic routine as due to an oddity in the Basic it would return the same value but save a couple of bytes each time.

Thank you MC, I thought that it may give someone the chance, finally, to answer the question with YES!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:49:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Umm a C64, or it could have been the 1551 disk drive.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:02:32 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: An approaching landmark...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112602#msg-112602</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I should apologize for the 68k of bunting in my post. On my 56k dial-up it makes a noticeable difference in loading time, and I imagine that it affects some of the small screen high tech devices others use. Very thoughtless of me. [color=red]Face[/color]

All I can do now is try to achieve the next page of this thread as quickly as possible, but I don't know if page length is determined by a count of posts or by quantity of bytes.

I've just done a quick test. I uploaded as jpg, and I've now looked on my computer at a conversion to png and gif. Results:

Jpg . 23k
Png . 08k
Gif . 04k	

I promise to post more responsibly on the 1,000,000 post landmark.

I'm reminded of a time in the early 80s when I spent roughly half a day rewriting a 6510 machine language routine to reduce it from 130 bytes to 128 bytes. It was a garbage collection routine for... (free slice of geek-cake if you can guess the machine), and it reduced garbage collection time from several seconds (sometimes tens of seconds) down to a time not perceivable by human senses.

Them was the days, them was.

A thought occurs. I wonder if I should edit the post to replace the jpgs with gifs... 

Nah. I'll just write a long and rambling post to speed the arrival of the new page.

And while I remember - Congratulations to SM for his very apposite post.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:41:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112594#msg-112594</link>
      <author>MartinB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[In heralding this auspiciously suspicious moment, I return, from beyond the 100k postmark.

They use stamps there.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:53:57 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112591#msg-112591</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[But where is Egon?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:16:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112584#msg-112584</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Woo hoo! Congratulations SM for hitting it on the nail. Congratlutions to everyone else for making it happen.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:50:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112583#msg-112583</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It's like high tech bunting.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:27:08 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112582#msg-112582</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I hope my elderly steam modem gets this uploaded before the next milestone.

Post 099,999
[img]http://tinyurl.com/3cvsasv[/img]

Post 100,000
[img]http://tinyurl.com/3hsz9gk[/img]

The Winner!
[img]http://tinyurl.com/3ccvlam[/img]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:29:59 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Streamers, bunting, balloons, cheering but most daring of all

a pie for SkidMarks marked with 100,000 (and a S for SkidMarks).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:00:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112579#msg-112579</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Are we there yet?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:48:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112578#msg-112578</link>
      <author>Marit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It's the next post, so I'd better start taking the wire off the bottle of champagne and get the glasses ready.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:52:51 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112577#msg-112577</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hangs up lots of Posh Scary Bunting and gets ready.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:08:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Violetmoon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[8 more to go!!! I can't stand it. Never was particularly good at waiting...

Bunyip, it's cold over here, come visit. It's been hot, now it's raining and cool, they are mentioning frosts and sleet!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:33:59 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Only a handful of posts left. 

Geg, why do you only want to hang one Spice Girl?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:57:37 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>old boiler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It must be Hell where you are! Eat a pie marked &quot;s&quot; for snow.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:05:51 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,111663,112557#msg-112557</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[re irregular fforum members.  their alignment is quantum, right?

no way they could be aligned, somewhat like the uncertainty principle: if you know how many fforum members you have you can't tell where they are.


It's bloody 33C here today and the f*******g airconditioner has just broken down.  #@&amp;&amp;***)^!!!!!!!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:33:02 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Only 31 more posts to go - surely its time to hang up the bunting?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:04:09 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Violetmoon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[42. The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. If you can't find it here, you don't need it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:05:37 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>old boiler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[FORTY TWO MORE POSTS TO GO]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:44:44 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Violetmoon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you have your glasses on, geg dear? Those aren't posts... Those irregular things are the fforum members, and they refuse to stand in a straight line. Some sort of Treehouse regulation, I think. I haven't gotten around to reading the regulations, so I'm not sure.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:30:08 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Were we supposed to put the posts in a straight line? Its just that some of them look a bit irregular to me.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:27:26 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>zendao42</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ice cold tea is for the best when outdoor temperature exceeds that of the human body
but I find that 2 cups of sugar per gallon is plenty-
much more than that &amp; it becomes syrup...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:14:24 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Violetmoon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I thought Stumpy Scrumpy was punishment?

Could I just have some hot tea, please? You can't get good British hot tea around here.... they want to serve it ice cold and 90% sugar. Ick.]]></description>
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