------------------------------- Wed Apr 19 05:45:50 PM EDT 2023 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Apr 19, 2023 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (12 total): Speaker(s): * Bob Frankston BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman * Bill Ricker Attendees (named): * Alan Wu * Anold Peterson * Bill Horne * Chris Allen * Ed Piecewicz * Ron Thibeau Attendees (anonymous): * Curt * Randall -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall says:Grammar correction misses the most prominent issues, almost always 18:33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:😄 18:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall says:Yes sorry, thought I was muted Randall says:As a new person, I have a question if I can join the BLU email list to ask questions getting used to Linux Randall says:It's only slightly more complicated with big-endian, just simulate a multi-word number with multiple steps 18:38 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:Yes, the BLU mailing lists are open to everyone. We have two lists: discuss and announce. Messages posted to announce are automatically sent ot discuss as well. John Abreau says:We also provide lists for a number of other groups, but they define their own policies. 18:39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall says:Thanks, just signed up for BLU discuss list. 18:39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts/ 18:42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Wu says:LOGO 18:59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says:Aka Turtle LOGO 18:59 Bill Ricker says:«The idea of microprogramming was introduced by Maurice Wilkes in 1951 as an intermediate level to execute computer program instructions» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_unit#Microprogram_control_unit 19:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Wu says:And don't let sopftware peole design hardware! Alan Wu says:Had to fix both types... 19:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Horne says:Apolgies to Mr. Frankston: if I don't leave now, I'll have a warm beer and a cold wife waiting for me! Thanks for your presentation, sir! 19:27 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says:Good priorities Bill. 19:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Piecewicz says:!-path addressing 19:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Ricker says:In the pre-meeting rants, Bob mentioned Gray Code (which is quite useful for e.g. shaft encoders) https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/09/08/gray-code/ 19:42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:The TODO list is too tiny to read. Is there a URL where it can be viewed at a readable size? 19:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Wu Alan Wu says:Carpenters can cut holes well 20:16 Alan Wu says:Tour? 20:19 Alan Wu says:Self-modifying code to hack opcodes was compact but obscure 20:29 Alan Wu says:Legacy machine code emulations now run 3 or more layers deep, with source code long lost 20:37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Frankston Bob Frankston says: https://thedailywtf.com/ 20:38 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Frankston says: https://rmf.vc/nfratalk 20:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Piecewicz says:Thank you. 20:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 8:52 pm