Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 30 January 2012 12:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
mainframe switchmode PSUs, so with apologies to the list owner I'm probably
in a position where I have to comment on this for safety reasons.
My advice: don't.
Thanks for the warning. :)
any number of stories
PSUs contained extra
functionality- like Apple's recent patent on backing up a password in
the PSU- would be able to circumvent it.
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volts, but just not 5v. :-(
A multi adapter set to 3V will give you about 5V lightly loaded, and set
to 6V will give you about 5V on moderate load. The point about the ones
that Henry cited is that they're mini switchmodes, they've got stable
output and run cooler than wall warts.
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: a number of years
ago there was something called Mystic Pascal that tried this, although I
never used it (I was in the throes of Modula-2 at the time) and it ended
up as a freebie on a cover disc. I've always felt that there might still
be something in it worth looking at...
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Sven Barth wrote:
On 25.02.2012 19:15, ik wrote:
Hello,
I found the following amazing lecture that present a new idea of a
development tool, that I think will interest you all:
http://vimeo.com/36579366
An interesting talk indeed. Thank you for sharing.
Agreed
to e.g.
abrupt shutdown.
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and implemented for m68k ;)
They've also got MacPaint in Pascal, but I can't find a complete list of
their source collection anywhere.
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this out- a
So-and-so wrote: line at the top of the body as well as possibly a
View this message in context URL at the bottom.
But I'm sure that nobody not born yesterday didn't know that :-)
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for a coding error to match a recently-introduced construct by
accident.
But I suppose all this begs the question: if one decides not to use
Object Pascal, what are the viable alternatives?
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Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Fri, March 8, 2013 17:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Also, there as no specific person I targeted in
fpc-devel. Almost all posts lately contain about 95% quoted text! How
does a moderator fail to see this?
I really don't want to prolong
Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
But I suppose all this begs the question: if one decides not to use
Object Pascal, what are the viable alternatives?
While hobbywise, I won't let go of FPC (and Wirthian languages) that
quickly, professionally
://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/B5000_5500_5700/listing/
[5]
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/APLSoftware/APLSystems/B5500%20APL/
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that the
Xeon systems can now run the emulation faster than the available
specialist CMOS processors.
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best to keep things as simple as possible.
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supply
decrypt keys.
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-hansen.net/software.shar, which implies that it would be
easiest to start on a unix (rather than Windows) system.
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Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPascal#Implementation,
Per Brinch Hansen's SuperPascal can by compiled by GNU Pascal but not by
FPC. Does anybody have time to look at this (I certainly don't right now
Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
Is anybody interested in a PROLOG interpreter written in Turbo Pascal,
plus a couple of typeset articles which outline how it works internally?
When I found it I was wondering whether it could be usefully used
. each string is
stored as a linked list of cells).
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well-documented and
supported by at least two linkers (MS and TopSpeed) was a significant
advantage.
I presume that the early enthusiasm had largely dissipated by the time
IBM started pushing it as a 32-bit OS, with a new binary format etc.
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Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/18/2014 2:09 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I presume that the early enthusiasm had largely dissipated by the time
IBM started pushing it as a 32-bit OS, with a new binary format etc.
OS/2 is 32bit (for the most part) since v2.0, released in 1992 and it
became actually
having increasing
difficulty accommodating screens at varying distances.
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apply patches to a local VCS, and then dump that to an ISP's HTTP or FTP
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hello Mark,
On 2015-03-15 13:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
for small and slow-moving projects a hybrid approach would be possible:
Sure it would be possible, but definitely not the most efficient way of
working.
Very much agreed. But most people with a conventional
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hello Mark Morgan,
If you /don't/ mind, the name is Mark Morgan Lloyd. The original Morgan
Lloyd (strictly, Morgan Llwyd) was a churchman of considerable renown,
and at some point my family adopted his name which persists to the
current generation.
As far
to fix
that particular flaw. If one of the FPC maintainers can remember the
details perhaps they'd explain them, after all /somebody/ has to give
Graeme something concrete on which to build his argument :-)
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hello Mark,
On 2015-03-16 11:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
details perhaps they'd explain them, after all /somebody/ has to give
Graeme something concrete on which to build his argument :-)
hehehe... Just watch Linus's Google Tech Talk on YouTube. ;-)
I can also add
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hello Mark,
On 2015-03-22 21:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
No, but an observation if I may. A few months ago I moved from a couple
of large (in their day) Multisync LCDs mounted flat, to 4x slightly
I've used two 19 wide screen monitors for 2 years (a couple years
they added an IBM 360 to
the existing Burroughs systems (some stories have it that the ALGOL
systems were thrown out, but I suspect that they were actually
transferred to SRI).
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sensible in 1960, like
head-per-track discs) not to mention opcodes that change several
registers in peculiar ways that I'd be surprised if they were directly
compatible.
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direction
out
and so on.
I'll try to keep an eye on this ML, but our gateway rejects quite a lot
of stuff /particularly/ if it's formatted as HTML or has an attachment.
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Luca Olivetti wrote:
El 20/06/16 a les 11:44, Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit:
A private online service I use has somebody who still bears the scars of
Olivetti attempting to write an operating system in (strict, unexpanded)
Pascal.
Oh, the memories (and, no, I'm not related). My first job
Jonas Maebe wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Mon, 01 Feb 2016:
For a demo computer built using this sort of thing, it's obviously
trivial to arrange it such that the simulator can load microcode from
persistent storage, and can do something comparable for a boot loader.
What would
variant? Loading
lookup tables to decode opcodes to VLIW, and then clocking those words
through the pipeline?
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
On 2016-02-24 15:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
x2x is specifically for controlling multiple computers with a single
keyboard and mouse. As such windows are limited to the size dictated by
the screen
Ah, okay that is similar to VNC or RDP then. Very different
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
On 2016-02-24 14:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I've looked at it in the past and found it woefully unreliable, but
there's a chance that it's improved since it's been adopted as an
official part of X11.
I can't really answer that, other than that I've used
the VMWare
guest resides.
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nuxpmi.org/trac/ plus a FreeNode channel.
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Lukasz Sokol wrote:
On 26/02/16 10:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
[the history of OpenMOSIX, really good writeup, thanks!]
For me what dragged me to OpenMOSIX was that, unlike Beowulf,
it did not require to recompile any programs it was to run,
with some nifty special libraries. And the members
Bo Berglund wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 13:21:20 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markmll.fpc-ot...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
Cyrax wrote:
I propose adding fpc-devel list to Gmane service. fpc-pascal list is
there already and for completeness, fpc-devel would be nice addition.
Thoughts on this
Lukasz Sokol wrote:
On 30/07/16 20:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Lukasz Sokol wrote:
I'm sure that if one dug there would be plenty of prewritten mail
distribution programs, probably in Perl on unix (and if somebody
doesn't like that, he might as well stop reading here).
there was even
in that are either no longer available or aren't going to work with
FPC/Lazarus.
Frankly, I've always found the standard Mozilla family of clients adequate.
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is only developed in itself.
It's written on Wikipedia BTW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#Early_years
And ultimately I think that TP was written in Z80 assembler, later
converted to 8086.
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to
consider EBCDIC for quite some while, but unfortunately there are still
people who insist that it's flawless. One of our wiki pages has somebody
confirm that EBCDIC has ^, but he then goes on to admit that it's not in
all codepages...
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in mind that one of his major targets is a late-70s vintage
IBM CMS, which predates most APIs as we know them (in fact, long
predates the terms API and ABI themselves :-)
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t;
Turbo Pascal 5.0 (circa 1989, and not long preceding Delphi) appears to
adopt a complex scheme to handle both of the approaches, and observes
"Mark and Release cannot be used interchangeably with Dispose and
FreeMem unless certain rules are observed [...] ."
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On 09/03/17 18:00, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
On 08/03/17 10:14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> On 07/03/17 19:30, nore...@z505.com wrote:>>> On 02/03/2017 23:54, Paul Robinson wrote:> >> There are five>>> similar "Altoids tin-sized" single board
processors&
-arounds for these if you need them
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cho $0
If that doesn't show the name of the shell, possibly prefixed by - ,
then it's definitely an Orange problem. In other cases please post a
minimal FPC (i.e. not Lazarus) program showing the problem, telling us
/exactly/ what version of FPC is being used.
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On 01/03/17 11:30, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
I agree. Most of our RPis are actually running Debian, but in extremis
it's always possible to roll back to Raspbian as a baseline configuration.
There are of course other small boards: Olimex
On 01/03/17 11:30, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
I agree. Most of our RPis are actually running Debian, but in extremis
it's always possible to roll back to Raspbian as a baseline configuration.
There are of course other small boards: Olimex
2017/02/15/piminimint-altoids-rpi-zero-computer/
Beagle bone is more expensive, but more open sourced
Particularly notable due to a couple of DSP-like processors which make
it good for high-speed stuff. However unlike the main processor I
believe these have to be programmed in assembler
her than begin-end and so on) this does appear
remarkably Pascal-like.
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n't deny for a moment that Git has its advantages for
distributed working. But am I correct in my understanding that it has
nothing that maps directly onto the monotonic revision list of
traditional VCSs including Subversion?
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On 23/05/17 14:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
One question if I may. Subversion has revision numbers like 12345, and
it's comparatively easy to query that and build it into a piece of
software's version information. It's also trivial for a developer to
look at the revision that he's currently
sed is the licensing problem (Sun's license being
incompatible with GPL) which resulted in a lot of FUD.
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On 24/05/17 13:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2017-05-24 12:46, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> >
could usefully be described as v1.4.1-787, and you can use that in>
conversation without having to be online to a repository.
Yes, you can use "v1.4.1-787" to describe a specif
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that through a single
(internal) USB hub with no possibility of expansion.
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On 25/05/17 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2017-05-25 09:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> even if most of the time
he> pushes it far harder than many of us enjoy.
I’m afraid it’s an occupational habit. My job as a technical consultant
and developer often requires me to come up wit
On 30/05/17 14:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2017-05-29 13:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> I'd use something like an
HP> Microserver with at least mirrored discs,
Yes the HP Microservers are excellent! I highly recommend them, and they
are cheap as chips - so a real bargain. I woul
easy to manage... I use Firebird for some small-scale stuff and found
locating instructions for even simple jobs to be a challenge.
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On 28/10/17 15:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2017-10-28 13:34, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> One of the (numerous)
things I'm wrestling with at the moment is> PostgreSQL replication...
Speaking of PostgreSQL, I just realised that tiOPF’s 3-hourly unit test
runs don’t include tests a
into things like creating new users on
the fly, the SQL dialects are sufficiently similar that a client program
can talk to either without substantial modification. I think that a
reasonable approach is to select Postgres for departmental or larger
storage, or Firebird for something that's
years
ago. https://www.postgresql.org/
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o the keyboard), as well as to e.g. send a WhatsApp message."
He assures me that he doesn't have money to put on the table :-)
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