Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "ColdFusion"
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I'm not a big lover, or was not, of Steve Jobs, but Elon needs some polish on his keynotes.
This product is interesting, but I'd like to see the design of a model house using these, and test it for a family. How many solar panels would you need, how many Powerwalls. How must other equipment and how complicated would it be.
If it was winter, could you heat your house with solar energy ... I think that would probably be a no, but electricity is not a good power source for heating.
And what about summer, could you cool your home with solar energy. That might be doable, but you would need a lot of power during the day, and so a lot of panels to power the A/C and also charge the powerwall for night. Then ... what about storage for those few days where you might not get any sun?
I think a simulation of model of a house really needs to be made to show people what this is capable of.
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@arnietapp423
Nope. X86 first descended from the Intel 8080, then it was the 8088, THEN it got that segmented architecture with the Intel 8086. The 6502, I think, came out of a group at Motorola that was famous for their 6800. First they developed the 6501, but got sued by Motorola. At the time there was also Zilog that developed the Z-80 microprocessor.
A group at Motorola left and produced the 6502 that became famous, and low cost, for being embedded in games like Pong, and home computers because it was cheap and easy to program. Commodore and Apple both started with the 6502.
From Wikipedia:
In the meantime MOS had started selling the 6502, a chip capable of operating at 1 MHz in September 1975 for a mere US$25. It was nearly identical to the 6501, with only a few minor differences: an added on-chip clock oscillator, a different functional pinout arrangement, generation of the SYNC signal (supporting single-instruction stepping), and removal of data bus enablement control signals (DBE and BA, with the former directly connected to the phase 2 clock instead).[2] It outperformed the more-complex 6800 and Intel 8080, but cost much less and was easier to work with. Although it did not have the 6501's advantage of being able to be used in place of the Motorola 6800 in existing hardware, it was so inexpensive that it quickly became more popular than the 6800, making that a moot point.
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That chip seems to have been the game OS, what used
to be called the ROM, read-only memory. Apparently it
also have the video on it as well ....
The AY-3-8500 "Ball & Paddle" integrated circuit was
the first in a series of ICs from General
Instrumentdesigned for the consumer video game market.
These chips were designed to output video to an RF
modulator, which would then display the game on a
domestic television set. The AY-3-8500 contained six
selectable games — tennis (a.k.a. Pong), soccer,
squash, practice, and two rifle shooting games. The
AY-3-8500 was the 625-line PAL version and the
AY-3-8500-1 was the 525-line NTSC version. It was
introduced in 1976, Coleco becoming the first customer
having been introduced to the IC development by Ralph
H. Baer.[1]A minimum number of external components
were needed to build a complete system.
The old chips actually were RISC, in that they did not
have a lot of complex instructions. It was the Intel
processors that started adding in a lot of extra stuff
that the industry later rejected because it made the
instruction decode slower, the chips bigger and yeild
less, and was harder to program. It is a complex
subject. There is instruction set compatibility, pin
compatibility, clock-speed ... kinds of things to take
into account, but the point was that the architecture
of the Intel chips was different than the Motorola and
Zilog, MOS Technologies, etc chips.
If I recall the main thing was that Intel multi-plexed
the address pins so that it could address a larger
space in segments, I think it was called. But it took
longer too, two clocks. The pin-out, instruction set
and architecture was different in all of them.
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