Post AoeIPUIazwChtPss5o by camstonefaux@furry.engineer
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(DIR) Post #AoeHPm7IeTpHCRApIu by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:10:38Z
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I love how "word" is a specific computer science term that means some data the bit-width of the processor.except on windows where it means 16-bits, currently 1/4th of the bit-width of the processor. and we've got "double word" for 32bits (not 128) and even the deadly QUADWORD for 64bits (not 256)
(DIR) Post #AoeHhgXE8y6l6HqCp6 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:14:14Z
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The year is 12763+1490i, most computation is done with quantum entangled supernovae, but when we still do digital computation it's several-AU-thick computronium shells around red dwarves. The architecture we use is a remnant of an earlier VFLIW one, so the bit-width of the main CPU is around 4 megabytes. "word" is a meaningless number at this point. except in some legacy code where it's still 16-bits. We walk on stars and compute with pocket dimensions AND STILL THE LEGACY OF WIN16 HAUNTS US
(DIR) Post #AoeHl4dsyADEjkZUMC by javierg@mstdn.social
2024-12-02T22:14:25Z
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@foone That's because Windows is not CS!
(DIR) Post #AoeHoTPfKTD6QkXbzE by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:14:44Z
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@crobisaur that sounds lewd. like a robot is trying to hit on me in a cartoon
(DIR) Post #AoeHs1KHhHcsTliQ8u by flyingcircuits@mastodon.world
2024-12-02T22:15:14Z
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@foone But a byte is still 8 bits, right? RIGHT? š„
(DIR) Post #AoeHs2dSpSYuXXhFg0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:15:23Z
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@flyingcircuits you mean an octet?
(DIR) Post #AoeHyBa6TvG21S3Rpo by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:15:48Z
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@tauon windows development is like 25% those moments by volume
(DIR) Post #AoeI1Cz3ivKdF0AWC8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:16:09Z
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@tauon "why can't I do this? *googles* WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN CP/M COMPATIBILITY?"
(DIR) Post #AoeI3mJ5MepHN9lFz6 by static@aus.social
2024-12-02T22:17:12Z
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@foone I remember when most popular CPUs were 16 bits... And the meaning of word got set to 16 bits because people weren't CS graduates. :-/
(DIR) Post #AoeI6gkGUzWIzZrVL6 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:17:29Z
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@alilly in intel-flavor x86 assembly, yes, but that's kinda windows-specific. GNU stuff uses AT&T syntax which doesn't name them that way
(DIR) Post #AoeI9tSPgyTzHq2Yds by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:19:12Z
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@crobisaur NO
(DIR) Post #AoeID9bc6proErtl1k by indigoparadox@mastodon.social
2024-12-02T22:19:17Z
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@foone As it should be. š
(DIR) Post #AoeIFvUp1adLLc2lJw by tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk
2024-12-02T22:19:20Z
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@foone An int was supposed to be word size, and duly changed size from 16-32 bits as computers got more powerful.By the time 64 bit words became common so many programs had hardcoded it in data structures they had to invent an int64 to avoid breaking all the bad code.In Delphi they had Cardinal, which was literally defined as the word size with undefined size. They too had to change the definition and invent NativeInt due to bad code..
(DIR) Post #AoeIJJefevI38yGapM by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:21:02Z
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I mean I can't really joke too hard about that. Give me immortality and technological nigh-omnipotence and I'd still be hacking a game from 1993 right now. I'd just be doing it while hurting a lot less
(DIR) Post #AoeIPUIazwChtPss5o by camstonefaux@furry.engineer
2024-12-02T22:22:03Z
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@foone Itās all fun until the BDOD.(Blue dwarf of death.)
(DIR) Post #AoeIZNne16H2dE7p5s by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2024-12-02T22:23:46Z
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@foone Like when people say "re-TIRE?!? Whaaah awn earth wouldja want to re-TIRE?!?!"Never said I wanted to stop having 20 overlapping unfinished projects, I just want to only work on the ones *I* think are important.I think some people don't comprehend anything beyond "I am cog in machine" and "sitting on porch decomposing."
(DIR) Post #AoeIqfkWX8k1DyuT3o by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:26:53Z
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@ada @tauon I'm so aware I've written code to parse FAT dates on FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32.
(DIR) Post #AoeJ3mW6gRHNyhPvxg by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:29:22Z
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my life goals are to ascend to something both more and less than both matter (in the long term) and biology (in the short term), but yeah I'll keep hacking old DOS games. I'll just do it as a being of pure intellect that lives outside of time
(DIR) Post #AoeJL3rlQryMi0mquW by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2024-12-02T22:32:27Z
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@foone ...and any integer that starts with "0" is still interpreted as octal by default...
(DIR) Post #AoeJNt4vzrUQ7XILEe by h0m54r@mastodon.social
2024-12-02T22:32:32Z
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@foone I remember poking around my file system back when I was a kid with a Windows 3.11 machine and seeing strings saying ā32-bit word machineā, and getting confused because my computer didnāt come with Word, only Works 3.0.
(DIR) Post #AoeJQZO9ezUxvDZ2Ey by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:32:46Z
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@h0m54r hah!
(DIR) Post #AoeJTG5prB4awlHGN6 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:33:41Z
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anyway this whole thread is a subtweet of my debugger because I set a hardware breakpoint on a 32bit word in memory only to have my debugger never fail because this code was writing 16-bit words and a 32-bit word memory breakpoint doesn't fire if you do a 16-bit write
(DIR) Post #AoeJtShvZyUnbBacDI by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:38:44Z
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@endrift yeah my senior project at uni involved stuffing an entire image comparison matrix in one!
(DIR) Post #AoeKIQYYiKnQAP6zWi by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-02T22:43:16Z
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@chamlis I too am close to gods, and on the far side.
(DIR) Post #AoeL4nLpGdZ2lNDfXs by brouhaha@mastodon.social
2024-12-02T22:51:59Z
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@foone There used to be arguments, regarding software portability, over the assertion that all the world's a VAX.Microsoft has long since resolved the issue. All the world's an 8088. Maybe an 8086 with a 64-bit extended ISA, but still just an overgrown 8088.
(DIR) Post #AoeMROyUAFyXm8e6Ua by rotopenguin@mastodon.social
2024-12-02T23:07:17Z
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@foone the next big upgrade will be MAAMAAMAAMONSTERWORD processing.
(DIR) Post #AoeRtrQ0VIJds6uNhQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-03T00:08:27Z
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@brouhaha I'd argue that all-the-worlds-a-386, not an 8088, but I see what you mean
(DIR) Post #AoeUdKH6GNGaJ8Y83M by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-03T00:39:08Z
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@cvtsi2sd 24 bits?
(DIR) Post #AoezeSUCJgV2dvhCIS by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-03T06:26:40Z
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@cvtsi2sd wait the T is Ten? TenByte and TenWord?but it's not Ten Word, NASM. that's 20 bytes...
(DIR) Post #AofQ89hJKkr3rpeOXI by troed@masto.sangberg.se
2024-12-03T11:23:17Z
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@foone idk. I grew up in the 16 bit home computer age with byte = 8 bit, word = 16 bit and long = 32 bit. Atari ST - so very far from anything Windows :)I was always taught the meaning of these monikers are undefined except for byte.
(DIR) Post #Aoh7Txgz8js0Bw6QEa by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-04T07:03:44Z
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@lina Close. Think more like BFG
(DIR) Post #Aoh7hhiBLv4SgNDPO4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-04T07:06:20Z
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@lina https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/BFG9000