SGI: Discussion

Making an "SGI-Quality" Presentation - Page 2

foetz
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ha, fantastic :D
that needs to be archived. here's the package just in case:

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http://r-a-c.de/sgi/SiliconSurf.tar.bz2
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vegac
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Just read this whole series...so good.
Looking forward to the next post :)
josehill
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A new post in the series, with an interesting video at the end - http://therealmccrea.com/2015/01/25/the ... ng-system/
sgifanatic
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We've gotten used to so much innovation, design, connectivity & interactivity over the last 20 years, it's hard to remember how cool a lot of these things appeared back in '95. The dancing bars in the resource monitor, the 3D video sequences, "wysiwyg" html, the notion of being able to connect with any brand/institution/person simply by typing in a web address... The video would have blown minds at many levels.
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hamei
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sgifanatic wrote: We've gotten used to so much innovation, design, connectivity & interactivity over the last 20 years, it's hard to remember how cool a lot of these things appeared back in '95. The dancing bars in the resource monitor, the 3D video sequences, "wysiwyg" html, the notion of being able to connect with any brand/institution/person simply by typing in a web address... The video would have blown minds at many levels.

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miod
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hamei, you're about to break nekochan...
:Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo2: R4400 :Indigo2IMP: R4400 :Indigo2: R8000 :Indigo2IMP: R10000 :Indy: R4000PC :Indy: R4000SC :Indy: R4600 :Indy: R5000SC :O2: R5000 :O2: RM7000 :Octane: 2xR10000 :Octane: R12000 :O200: 2xR12000 :O200: - :O200: 2x2xR10000 :Fuel: R16000 :O3x0: 4xR16000 :A350:
among more than 150 machines : Apollo, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, MIPS before SGI , Motorola, NeXT, SGI, Solbourne, Sun...
Pontus
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uh-oh, will hamei shut up to save nekochan, tune in next week for favourite ranter, or not!
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foetz
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he'll never post again now to keep the neat number :P
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vishnu
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It's a funny joke but I think we're all aware that in order for an unsigned integer to overflow it's got to be a pure power of two, and since hamei didn't break nekochan at post number 256 you have to figure our post numbers must be stored in at least two bytes, so hamei's got at least another 55537 posts to go before he really breaks nekochan... :P
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Temporarily lost at sea...
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World domination! Or something...
foetz
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vishnu wrote: It's a funny joke but I think we're all aware that in order for an unsigned integer to overflow it's got to be a pure power of two, and since hamei didn't break nekochan at post number 256 you have to figure our post numbers must be stored in at least two bytes, so hamei's got at least another 55537 posts to go before he really breaks nekochan... :P

smartass :lol:
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miod
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vishnu wrote: It's a funny joke but I think we're all aware that in order for an unsigned integer to overflow it's got to be a pure power of two, and since hamei didn't break nekochan at post number 256 you have to figure our post numbers must be stored in at least two bytes, so hamei's got at least another 55537 posts to go before he really breaks nekochan... :P

What if the numbers are stored in BCD form? :mrgreen:
:Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo2: R4400 :Indigo2IMP: R4400 :Indigo2: R8000 :Indigo2IMP: R10000 :Indy: R4000PC :Indy: R4000SC :Indy: R4600 :Indy: R5000SC :O2: R5000 :O2: RM7000 :Octane: 2xR10000 :Octane: R12000 :O200: 2xR12000 :O200: - :O200: 2x2xR10000 :Fuel: R16000 :O3x0: 4xR16000 :A350:
among more than 150 machines : Apollo, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, MIPS before SGI , Motorola, NeXT, SGI, Solbourne, Sun...
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vishnu
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miod wrote: What if the numbers are stored in BCD form? :mrgreen:


Actually I think they're stored in bi-quinary coded decimal... :shock:
Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
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World domination! Or something...
robespierre
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That was very funny :lol:
But in truth, saying "unsigned" is praenimis... it would be a power of two either way.
Numbers are frequently printed in fields of limited size, which can act strangely when they are not wide enough. They can even suddenly turn into something non-numeric, like with the "G" format specifier in Fortran.
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ClassicHasClass
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Hey, when I officiated in a pinball tournament I had to watch for rollovers all the time.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
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vishnu
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Rollovers in pinball? Those guys must be good... :shock:
Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
Plan:
World domination! Or something...
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ClassicHasClass
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Yeah, there's some incredible players out there. The #1 pinball player in the world, Keith Elwin, lives about 50 miles away, but we get international competitors around here too.

Compared to that lot, I look like I'm all thumbs.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
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vishnu
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Any of those guys ever tilt? That's always been my chief difficulty at pinball, constant tilting... 8-)
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Temporarily lost at sea...
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World domination! Or something...
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ClassicHasClass
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Sure. Happens all the time.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...