An eternal Dilbert strip that is based on the tiny Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer fragment from single.h:
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif
Archive for the ‘x86’ Category
20 years ago today: Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/24
Posted in *nix, ARM, Assembly Language, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, Fun, Geeky, History, MS-DOS, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 8.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, x86 | 2 Comments »
2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/17
2 more issues got on-line both close to a 100 pages each:
So the only issues missing are #28, #30 and #31.
–jeroen
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More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1987 and 1988
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/08
Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue.
This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the articles and advertisements:
- Micro_Cornucopia_#33_Dec-Jan87.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#34_Feb87.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#35_Apr87.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#36_Jun87.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#37_Sep87.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#38_Nov87.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#39_Jan88.pdf
A fun thing to notice are the advertisements for Modula-2. Logitech Modula-2. Yes though the Logitech Wikipedia page does not mention it at all, Logitech didn’t only sell mice, keyboards and web-cams. They had more products. Being Swiss, they were big in Modula-2. And Bitsavers has a PDF of that too: Logitech_Modula-2_86_1.0_Feb84.pdf
The only issues still to be scanned are #28 till #32.
–jeroen
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New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers (including the Final May 1990 issue)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26
Back in the days I started programming, Micro Cornucopia was a wonderful magazine, so I’m glad that BitSavers scanned a few more issues and put them online today, a week after some great PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993):
- Micro_Cornucopia_#40_Mar88.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#41_May88.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#45_Jan89.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#46_Mar89.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#47_May89.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#48_Jul89.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#49_Sep89.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#50_Nov89.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#51_Jan90.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#52_Mar90.pdf
- Micro_Cornucopia_#53_May90.pdf (final issue)
They covered a lot of languages (x86 and 68k assembly, C, C++, Turbo Pascal and many more), and very interesting hardware designs.
–jeroen
via: Index of /pdf/microCornucopia.
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New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
The PDF Archive at bitsavers.org has recently put online these raster image PDF scans from Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994) and Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993)
Remnants of the past, usefull for RAD Studio, Delphi and C++ Builder developers wanting to know a bit of history (: Read the rest of this entry »
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remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086.
Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors.
I used it in BASM (not only in Delphi 1 and up, it started in Turbo Pascal 6), and before that in MASM, NASM, and TASM.
–jeroen
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