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(...) You realise what the cost differential you're talking about is, don't you? If IBM had used 68k rather than x86, there's a much better chance today the lucky few would have macs, rather than everybody and his dog having a PC. (...) Yeah. I (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Come to think of it, a flying microwave oven while still plugged in will cause heat to be generated -- thus it's a thermo-nuclear ballistic weapon. And, if you toss it across the peaks of the Ural Mountains, it becomes an intercontinental (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't have source to LEdit either, but I used to write CAD software for a living around that time. We used all sorts of colormap manipulating tricks to speed up the rendering. These tricks just don't work in fixed color modes. You have to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks! I did a search earlier today and didn't come up with the above post. Now at least I know you're talking about. :') (...) Actually, its a nuclear ballistic weapon :') (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's a good suggestion. Especially because it's something I can make LDAO do. As opposed to some really nifty suggestions I've received which would require changing LDLite, or would be so processing-intensive that they aren't practical. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, at this point I'll have to take your word for it. The segmented address still seems like a high price to pay for a half-register. (...) Maybe this is the case in LEdit -- I don't have knowledge of that source code. But in LDraw, the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Perhaps you're right, but that jump instruction is relative to the Instruction Pointer which uses a full register. The segmented way you are relative to a segment which only uses half a register. You can take advantage of this half register (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I ran across it doing an analysis of the "What happened?" thread in lugnet.off-topic.debate -- very very very early in the thread in fact. (URL) still makes me smirk -- I've never thought of using a microwave as a ballistic weapon. :-D (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That would work except that trying to turn wind-up timers wearing gloves is very difficult. :') (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Geez, I barely remember a microwave comment. I don't even remember the context. But it seems to be haunting me this week. :') (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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