How to waste computer memory?

[cl at isbd.net]

Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2016 17:37:02 alister wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:42:30 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM,  <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > >> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for the
> > >>> sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a list of
> > >>> languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than Python,
> > >>> starting with the best first. Thanks.
> > >>
> > >> How about a list of languages that Unicode handles better than
> > >> ASCII? Like almost every language *except* English.
> > >
> > > Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII
> > > is enough, but you do lose some information.
> > >
> > > ChrisA
> >
> > as we all seam to have bitten the troll's thread
> > "how to waste computer memory"
> > give it to an delusion-ed incompetent to play with
> >
> > it is now 2016 not 1978, Memory is cheap. plentifully and fast there
> > is more than enough to go arround
> >
> While you all are trying to play can you top this, I just have to comment 
> that in 1978 I paid $400 for a kit to put 4k of static ram in a Cosmac 
> Super Elf.  And the code I wrote for it, looking up in the RCA 
> programmers manual to get the hex value I then entered via the onboard 
> monitor facility with its 6 digit led display, was still running in 1995 
> at that tv station.
> 
> So the obvious question then is, will any of your python code still be 
> running and doing its labor saving and dead on the video frame timing 
> job several times daily, 17 years hence?
> 
I wrote a Cosmac assembler for the Cosmac.  :-)

However I doubt it's still being used, a year or two after I wrote it
we migrated to a Tektronix development system that ran Unix (wow!).

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Chris Green
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