Re: 10.4.10

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Woody <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Woody <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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As far as I can figure out from the manual, the ZX81 came with a single
8K ROM that did for BASIC and OS.

It did. I rewrote it a couple of times. Not as many times as the
spectrum though - I must have gone through 20 replacement roms on that
(although a few of those were just things like keyboard functions)

Good grief. More than I dared do.

I had a plentiful supply of eproms and an eprom programmer.

The ZX81 manual contains this, by way of explation of the `PI' function
(please excuse the TeX-style markup - you know what it means;

I know nothing about TeX as I have previously mentioned

So what? If someone says `You're about to meet some markup lingo' and
you're presented with "\pi = 3.14159265358979...", you can catch the
drift, am I not right?

I can indeed.

I could give you a `typical basic LaTeX document' and you'd be able to
understand pretty much what all the markup was for, even if you didn't
quite get it in full detail.

Yes, I did a search on the web last week after your assumption that it
would be easier for one (you actually said me, but we know that couldn't
be correct) to learn TeX than XSLT, which I said I couldn't comment on
as I didn't know it, but now I look I find questionable.


\pi = 3.14159265358979..., the girth in cubits of a circle one cubit
across. (Only ten digits on this are actually stored in the computer, &
only ten digits are displayed)

Why can't they write 'em like that any more, eh?

Becuase you would get people writing in hacker speak whining they didn't
know what girth was, or cubits. Or 10 digits!

<shrug> So you ignore 'em. Obviously. Why is it that those who whine
in childish fashions get their needs met, while sensible rational
reasonable folk like me don't?

I don't think they do.

I mean, look at supermarkets. I found out about supermarket carrots:
they're all washed in a machine that removes the outer membrane, so they
keep looking freshly washed for weeks, but also lose their flavour.
Aha!

And why do they do that? Because of whining about dirt on the carrots.

I doubt that is true. Supermarkets do things claiming it is what people
want. but it is really more what sells than what people want. They are
always saying people want things covered in plastic, but they don't it
just sells more.

Well, I want the freedom of choice to buy fresh veg caked with the dirt
it was grown in because it tastes better and lasts longer. But no,
those of us who want tasty food get ignored, don't we?

No, we can go to other shops.


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Woody

www.alienrat.com
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