Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "ColdFusion" channel.

  1. What a macaroon. Oh well everything happens for a reason I suppose. Long live Linux!
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  2. an 8086 is an Intel CPU. The beginning of the x86 line.
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  3. +robert charlton no hardware uses assembly language. They all use machine code. Which is binary, ones and zeros. On and off is all computers really understand. Assembly language are mnemonics created so humans can comprehend machine code better.
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  4. +robert charlton you said, "8086, used assembly Language". Which is not what I said. I said, "no hardware uses assembly language. They all use machine code. Which is binary, ones and zeros." Which is in contradiction to your previous statement. As no hardware uses Assembly Language. Machines do not understand language, they interpret code.
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  5. +robert chariton. Go for it. I have built hexadecimal encoders, binary counters, and computers out of integrated circuits. Transistor logic was a topic of some interest to me at one time. I've even programed in Assembly Language (MASM), and machine code too. So you do not have to simplify anything for me. Because I've actually worked with it all.
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  6. There was nothing personal about the Apollo Guidance Computer. In fact it is owned by the US government. Which makes it especially impersonal.
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  7. I did too. What I didn't have were rich parents. :(
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  8. I had that issue of Popular Electronics. But I was too young, and too poor to really get in on the ground floor of the computer revolution. I saw it all back then though, even CGI.
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  9. Don't confuse Personal Computer with PC, which was an IBM brand. Apple definitely never was an IBM machine either.
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  10. Intel did. The 4004 was the first CPU on a chip.
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  11. I built a hexadecimal encoder with a 7493 and a 74154. It had a shift register in it too, so you could punch in each nibble, and it would output a full 8 bit byte.
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  12. But the first transistor, the point contact type is not the planer kind that we use today. So how do you explain that? If we ripped the tech off aliens you'd think we'd have gotten it right to begin with. The guy that made the first transistor was living in my home town when he did it. So this is kind of a personal issue with me. BTW transistors were not the first semiconductors either. Diode material was around since 1896. Trench radios work on semiconductor principals. Damned facts always ruining lousy conspiracy theories.
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  13. Did they market it?
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  14. +David Ford hmm yes that fact may disqualify it right there.
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  15. +David Ford the IBM PC was a piece of crap in its own right. IBM cared so little that when their supply for PSU connectors fell through they just went with the P8/P9 arrangement. Which was total horse crap. Because you could plug those in the wrong way around and fry a system doing it too.
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  16.  @sabestek8896  Dennis Ritchie is dead. He died in 2011? He used to live a town away from me. We grew up in the same town. So I used to see him around from time to time.
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  17. I still like Samsung products. In my opinion they're top notch. So I hope they manage to pull through their rough patch they're in now. I'd hate to have to do without Samsung. They need to rethink that family owned thing though.
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