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« on: November 05, 2011, 01:13:38 am »
With TI-OS? I got the idea from KnightOS's devving that it requires quite a bit of work, which I haven't seen happen (in the dual-booting scene) in glassOS. I could be very wrong on both counts but I haven't heard anything about them, and besides, I would happily switch given the fact that GlassOS has its own CAS!
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« on: November 05, 2011, 01:05:23 am »
2477: You poiet out that the topic never specified humor directly 2478: You make an Asm program for the 92 that lets you make it a dvorak keypad, allowing it on the SAT 
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« on: October 30, 2011, 02:54:31 pm »
Not to mention having almost nothing in common with the other calcs. It wouldn't have been simple even given the rom easily.
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« on: October 30, 2011, 02:28:54 pm »
wait, are those axioms or something? I haven't heard of them.
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« on: October 30, 2011, 02:18:36 pm »
No, I meant higher than binary is already used in RAM.
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« on: October 30, 2011, 01:42:49 am »
But it is only 0s in the programs, which was what was stated in the dilbert comic. Note it only stated "Programming in zeros"  Also, That's not an unary computer. That's a binary computer with unary opcodes. can be defined as an unary computer. Did you know that the vast majority of RAM already relies on higher-base storage concepts? Yet, it is part of a binary computer system.
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« on: October 30, 2011, 12:02:12 am »
it has to read them all until it reaches a zero. The reader function is in binary, but the inputs and outputs are in unary, similar to how an ADC has to have analog parts even though it is a portion of a digital circuit.
An Unary computer is a very poorly designed binary computer, in that it would be trivial to convert an unary computer to a binary one. The memory would have to be binary, but have no 0s before the last 1, or be an analog method (ie voltage based, capacitors would do the job) stating the count.
Let me try to clarify: Unary vs binary is like the following:
Two methods of storing a square tower's geometry: Plain height in a number (tower is 5 or, in unary, 11111 blocks high) is like unary, where saying whether each level has a window, and counting the bits, is like binary. (10101) Note that the binary form stores more data for its size.
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« on: October 29, 2011, 11:46:54 pm »
Choir? Wow. In my choir class getting an A involves not being a jerk in class more than anything else. Do they actually judge you on how well you sing then? Here being a bad singer just means you end up in Mixed Chorus rather than concert choir or madrigals.
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« on: October 29, 2011, 11:35:04 pm »
Didn't cut out the punchline though.
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« on: October 29, 2011, 11:28:10 pm »
There is absolutely no reason anyone should touch 0.0.1 outside of historical reference. I doubt the source code has more than 5% left over from it.
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« on: October 29, 2011, 11:23:30 pm »
actually, it involves counting the numbers of 0s.
think tally marks, minus the 5 groupings. That's unary. Binary allows having ones separating the zeros, but unary doesn't, so (I'm representing the bits as one for clarity) 111111 = 1+1+1+1+1+1 = 6 , or command #6.
As such, it's easy to make a binary processor pretend to be unary, just as a quaternary one can easily pretend to be binary.
@epic7 zeros and spaces would be two symbols, and therefore binary.
An 8 bit CPU would have 9 possible states: {},{1},{11},{111},{1111},{11111},{111111},{1111111},{11111111}
and each wire would be powered after the previous, so it's easy to convert from an analog voltage by using compariters.
Binary is much better, of course. quaternary is better than binary in the same way.
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« on: October 24, 2011, 02:01:28 am »
actually I can program in only one symbol. let me write an interpreter first tho Is it ok if it only has four to eight commands? It's called unary btw.
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« on: October 24, 2011, 01:07:39 am »
Hooray for progress! now, on to replacing the boot1 Ooh, a thought: is there a limit to the diag size? we could fit an OS loader in just a few kb....then have it load a larger image, or a patched version of the normal OS, from the filesystem! Unless the diag software is keyed....
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« on: October 24, 2011, 01:00:00 am »
I get frustrated when Wine's IE tries to become the default browser.... I just want to use my non-emulated ones, thanks. On the trololol note: Someone should write a browser in lolcode. With a few extra libs it could become a legitimate alternative to perl.
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« on: October 22, 2011, 11:01:09 pm »
The shift-I problem sounds (can't say for sure) like a problem with your keyboard. Is it a new thing? If it hasn't been there long I'm probably wrong.
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