| patrickt |
08-25-2008 12:40 PM |
Ron61 & Excaliber, you are no longer tops!
I noticed on the top 10 stats that you two have been bested by FASTRRRR, who now has 4294967295 posts. Of course, there's magic to that particular number for anyone that counts without using their fingers....;)
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| wtm442 |
08-25-2008 07:27 PM |
Ron is going to start typing about 6 million posts a day, and he will catch up somewhere around year 2157 :LOL::eek::):JEKYLHYDE
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| patrickt |
08-25-2008 07:54 PM |
If FastRRRR posts one more time, it will roll over to zero.;)
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| computerworks |
08-25-2008 08:11 PM |
His user name should be Fast FFFFFFFF ;)
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| 392cobra |
08-25-2008 08:28 PM |
I think it's all pretty simple...Ron & Ernie have turned into a couple of slackers.
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| Madmiles442 |
08-25-2008 10:03 PM |
The real question is posts-per-day. Who's clipping along at a rate sure to catch anyone.
I've got $10 on the post whore, Joe Wicked!
PS-you know i love you joe!
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| Ron61 |
08-26-2008 02:44 AM |
:p
Patrickt,
Until this morning I hadn't even noticed the post count. If you just counted the posts that I have answered questions or actually helped anyone with a problem I would most likely have around 1,500. My knowledge of cars and especially fuel injection and the newer stuff is extremely limited and my knowledge of anything is very limited. So most of my posts are of the conversation type and don't really contribute to much. I can only answer questions abut stuff that I went through on my car when I had it.
Now Ernie on the other hand has answered a ton of questions and is a mechanic and he should be far ahead of me in posts.
After looking at that number I don't think I could just sit and type one letter in that many times in a year. He must be the fastest keyboard in the world.
Ron :)
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| wtm442 |
08-26-2008 07:09 AM |
4,294,967,295 this morning
4,294,967,295 last night
No posts in almost 12 hours. What a slacker! **) :o :eek: %/
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| 02roush |
02-06-2009 12:30 PM |
OK, I can't wane my curiosity.
Why such a high #? What am I missing?
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| patrickt |
02-06-2009 12:58 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by 02roush
(Post 918728)
Why such a high #? What am I missing?
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In a 32 bit environment that is the largest number that a single register on the CPU can hold (a doubleword). In other words, it is 11111111111111111111111111111111, or in hexadecimal FFFFFFFF, or in decimal, 4294967295, or "zero minus one." Back in the old days, your 8088 computer (the one with two 5.25 inch floppies and no hard drive) had a processor with registers that only stored 16 bits, or 1111111111111111, or FFFF, or 65535 (the magic 640k limit of real mode computing, because we used "segments" and "offsets" to reference memory and FFFF was the bigest number you could stuff in to a register). So in the old days, his message count would be 65535. It was just a hiccup in the software that stuffed -1 in to his "message count." :) |
| Rick Parker |
02-06-2009 01:34 PM |
Wgas............
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| patrickt |
02-06-2009 01:42 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick Parker
(Post 918746)
Wgas............
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Well, he did ask.:p |
| PaulProe |
02-06-2009 04:43 PM |
?
almost afraid to ask what time it is.
Knowing the work that PatrickT has put into his build, maybe I should ask him to explain Vroom-Vroom. I would get a new car in the process
:MECOOL: :p
Paul
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| patrickt |
02-06-2009 05:16 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulProe
(Post 918779)
... maybe I should ask him to explain Vroom-Vroom.
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Mostly I just enjoyed bugging Rick P. with my answer.:LOL: |
| Ronbo |
02-06-2009 07:02 PM |
16 bits? 8088 was an 8 bit processor, like it's cousins the 8080, Z80 and the guy across the tracks, the Motorola 6800.
You guys would be suprised how many industrial controls out there are still running Z80's. Even as we speek there are thousands of Z80's and 6800's dilligantly making sure your "lumpy" water makes it to the sewer plant.;)
Sorry, couldn't resist a chance to get my post count up.:p
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| patrickt |
02-06-2009 07:05 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronbo
(Post 918822)
16 bits? 8088 was an 8 bit processor, like it's cousins the 8080, Z80 and the guy across the tracks, the Motorola 6800.
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No, Ronbo. The 8088 microprocessor has 16-bit registers, 16-bit internal data bus and 20-bit address bus, which allows the processor address up to 1 MB of memory. The 8088 uses the same segmented memory addressing as the 8086: the processor can address 64 KB of memory directly, and to address more than 64 KB of memory the CPU has to break the update into a few parts - update up to 64 KB of memory, change segment register, update another block of memory, update segment register again, and so on.
Source: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8088/ |
| Ronbo |
02-06-2009 08:54 PM |
OK you got me going, I'll have to dig a little.
The link you posted doesn't state the instruction set used. Far as I remember the 286 was the first true 16 bit CPU in Intel flavor.%/
My bad, it's on the "architecture" page, 16 bit instruction code...
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| patrickt |
02-06-2009 09:03 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronbo
(Post 918852)
Far as I remember the 286 was the first true 16 bit CPU in Intel flavor.%/
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No, the 8086 was a true 16 bit processor, the 8088 dropped the external bus width to 8, but was still 16 bit in every other way. Perhaps you're thinking of the really old 8008, which was 8 bit. The 286 had the ability to address 16 megs of memory by kicking the processor in to protected mode, but hardly anything was written in PM back then. What you could do (and you might remember this) was to referece the first 64k of extended memory even though you were in real mode. You did this by opening the A20 gate and then using a segment register loaded with FFFF to address the memory. It was called the "High Memory Area" and you used to load himem.sys to do that and "Load DOS High." Coming back to you yet?:rolleyes: |
| JWilly |
02-06-2009 09:21 PM |
Bo and Luke show?
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| patrickt |
02-06-2009 09:23 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by JWilly
(Post 918858)
Bo and Luke show?
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If Ronbo keeps this up, I'm gonna start writing in assembly language soon....;) |
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