Awwww, they grow up so fast...
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So, I'm getting my nerd on and happened upon the Wikipedia page for double precision floating point numbers. It's what good times are made of... [Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision\_floating-point\_format) Scroll to the very bottom right above `Notes and references`, where it mentions Rust and... :-\
Jeremy Falcon
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So, I'm getting my nerd on and happened upon the Wikipedia page for double precision floating point numbers. It's what good times are made of... [Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision\_floating-point\_format) Scroll to the very bottom right above `Notes and references`, where it mentions Rust and... :-\
Jeremy Falcon
Who woulda thunk it? :)
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So, I'm getting my nerd on and happened upon the Wikipedia page for double precision floating point numbers. It's what good times are made of... [Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision\_floating-point\_format) Scroll to the very bottom right above `Notes and references`, where it mentions Rust and... :-\
Jeremy Falcon
did you make the edit ? :rolleyes:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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did you make the edit ? :rolleyes:
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
Ha ha ha. Nope... promise. (evil grin)
Jeremy Falcon
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So, I'm getting my nerd on and happened upon the Wikipedia page for double precision floating point numbers. It's what good times are made of... [Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision\_floating-point\_format) Scroll to the very bottom right above `Notes and references`, where it mentions Rust and... :-\
Jeremy Falcon
Found this on CodeProject: https://www.codeproject.com/KB/codegen/5387687/Thumbnail.Png[^]
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So, I'm getting my nerd on and happened upon the Wikipedia page for double precision floating point numbers. It's what good times are made of... [Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision\_floating-point\_format) Scroll to the very bottom right above `Notes and references`, where it mentions Rust and... :-\
Jeremy Falcon
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Who woulda thunk it? :)
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Mike Hankey wrote:
thunk
That word always triggers flashbacks to my MS-DOS days, when my product ran under the DOS4GW[^] DOS extender. Thunks from protected to real mode and then back again were A Bad Thing because you could drop interrupts during the mode change. To alleviate some of this problem you implemented bimodal interrupt handling, where you installed interrupt handlers for devices both in real mode and protected mode code. If you were especially <GollumVoice>tricksy</GollumVoice> you had one source file that you compiled using Microsoft C for real mode, and Watcom C for protected mode. Good times.
Software Zen:
delete this;
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Mike Hankey wrote:
thunk
That word always triggers flashbacks to my MS-DOS days, when my product ran under the DOS4GW[^] DOS extender. Thunks from protected to real mode and then back again were A Bad Thing because you could drop interrupts during the mode change. To alleviate some of this problem you implemented bimodal interrupt handling, where you installed interrupt handlers for devices both in real mode and protected mode code. If you were especially <GollumVoice>tricksy</GollumVoice> you had one source file that you compiled using Microsoft C for real mode, and Watcom C for protected mode. Good times.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Those were indeed good times.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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So, I'm getting my nerd on and happened upon the Wikipedia page for double precision floating point numbers. It's what good times are made of... [Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision\_floating-point\_format) Scroll to the very bottom right above `Notes and references`, where it mentions Rust and... :-\
Jeremy Falcon
Well, that note feels like "Mostly Harmless".
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Mike Hankey wrote:
thunk
That word always triggers flashbacks to my MS-DOS days, when my product ran under the DOS4GW[^] DOS extender. Thunks from protected to real mode and then back again were A Bad Thing because you could drop interrupts during the mode change. To alleviate some of this problem you implemented bimodal interrupt handling, where you installed interrupt handlers for devices both in real mode and protected mode code. If you were especially <GollumVoice>tricksy</GollumVoice> you had one source file that you compiled using Microsoft C for real mode, and Watcom C for protected mode. Good times.
Software Zen:
delete this;
I wasn't quite old enough to use Watcom back in that era, but I hae a similar reaction when seeing the word thunk. Came from the time I wrote a class library to wrap Windows objects with. Pulling a pointer to the class instance from the long value associated with a window. Looking back at the source code now would probably add even more silver to my hair. :laugh:
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I wasn't quite old enough to use Watcom back in that era, but I hae a similar reaction when seeing the word thunk. Came from the time I wrote a class library to wrap Windows objects with. Pulling a pointer to the class instance from the long value associated with a window. Looking back at the source code now would probably add even more silver to my hair. :laugh:
I have always been geek-proud over that time, mainly because I had two connections to the original DOOM. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I was using the same DOS extender DOS4GW as they used in the game. I also discovered much later that DOOM used a hidden-surface removal algorithm using binary space partitioning[^] that I implemented in 1982 as an undergraduate independent study project.
enhzflep wrote:
Looking back at the source code now would probably add even more silver to my hair
:laugh: At least you still have yours. I identify as follicly-challenged ;).
Software Zen:
delete this;