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·10개월 전·discuss
It's worth pointing out the Commodore Amiga had proper pre-emptive multitasking on a single M68000 all the way back in July '85
pechay
·작년·discuss
Thank you for your incredibly detailed correction :)
pechay
·작년·discuss
The ZX Spectrum ROM loader is 1500bps and some games loaded at over 3000. There wasn't any encoding, just straight-up 1s and 0s straight into RAM.
pechay
·2년 전·discuss
The 68k has both signed and unsigned 32/16 bit divide instructions.
pechay
·2년 전·discuss
We did this same experiment in school, with a tiny pinprick of oil, estimating the volume of the drop as a sphere, and a small water tank, and then estimated the area of oil slick as a circle.
pechay
·2년 전·discuss
University of New South Whales!
pechay
·3년 전·discuss
If everyone starts using cheap off-peak power, will it continue to be cheap?
pechay
·3년 전·discuss
The Amiga didn't have any hardware assistance for scaling sprites, so almost certainly the former.
pechay
·3년 전·discuss
pizza isn't, and can't be, opaquely modified by the topping adder this way.
pechay
·3년 전·discuss
I don't like the side effects of the second addToppings. I'd much prefer

pizza.Toppings = getToppings(kind string)