Re: An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-07 Thread ROGER LEVASSEUR
I so miss DEC. Bulk of CS degree was earned utilizing a DECSYSTEM-20, a VAX, and PDP-11 computers. Later I worked for DEC/Compaq/HP in the late 90s/early 2000s. -roger > On 10/07/2023 4:07 PM EDT Don wrote: > > >

Re: what is embedded development in 2015? (was: poking around for opportunities)

2015-02-08 Thread roger . levasseur
From: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com There _is_ something somewhat distinct that we can talk about as deep embedded or bare metal programming, which is what's not Linux. When I look at that, the big difference that I see is how much code you need to write and maintain

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread roger . levasseur
The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years have CPUs (ARMs) that in terms of compute power, RAM, and storage that outclass PCs and Workstations that I worked on during the 1990s. It was a big deal when that first 1GB SCSI disk drive became available to put into a

Re: poking around for opportunities

2015-01-07 Thread roger . levasseur
as which software packages are selected (such as Busybox). -roger - Original Message - From: David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org To: roger levasseur roger.levass...@comcast.net, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Wednesday, January 7

Re: Parenting and PGP

2014-11-10 Thread roger . levasseur
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: So, here's a `fun' question for other people raising little hackers What's the right age or developmental milestone at which to introduce (or help them learn about--or _let_ them learn about, depending on your perspective...) strong

Re: high school python classes

2014-01-21 Thread roger . levasseur
When I was a sophomore in high school, the senior class built the worlds longest slide rule. See http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/712349-196/then-seniors-at-alvirne-recounthow-record-slide-rule.html# -roger - Original Message - From: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org To:

Re: [OT] machines that think for you (was: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?)

2010-04-28 Thread roger . levasseur
Speaking of sliderules http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/712349-196/then-seniors-at-alvirne-recounthow-record-slide-rule.html -roger (an Alvirne sophomore at the time) - Original Message - From: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com To: Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org,

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread roger . levasseur
Comcast from Tyngsboro, Mass My browser can access it and I can traceroute to it. Not till hop #4 do the routings hit a similar route. r...@beaker(3) traceroute linuxquestions.org traceroute to linuxquestions.org (75.126.162.205), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-14 Thread roger . levasseur
I don't know how much they enforce it, but if you have the newer red and white MA plates (as opposed to the old green and white ones), MA requires you to display them both. When I had my yearly MA inspection back in March, my green on white plate was failed, with the garage guy saying

Re: cpp replaced by m4?

2007-07-03 Thread roger . levasseur
An article saved from long ago shows how to do something similar to this, but with Tcl. C Preprocessing with Tcl, by Jonathan S. Arney, Dr Dobb's Journal, August 1998. -roger -- Original message -- From: Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Sconce wrote: = Can