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08-25-2008, 12:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Ron61 & Excaliber, you are no longer tops!
I noticed on the top 10 stats that you two have been bested by FASTRRRR, who now has 4294967295 posts. Of course, there's magic to that particular number for anyone that counts without using their fingers....  |
08-25-2008, 07:27 PM
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Beam Me Up Scottie
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Squantum (part of Quincy),
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF1049 Titanium w/black stripes, 351W with Trick Flow Heads, Tremec 3550
Posts: 7,592
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Warren
'Liberals are maggots upon the life of this planet and need to get off at the next rotation.' (Jamo 2008)
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08-25-2008, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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If FastRRRR posts one more time, it will roll over to zero. |
08-25-2008, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Northport,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, KMP178 / '66 GT350H, 4-speed
Posts: 10,362
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His user name should be Fast FFFFFFFF |
08-25-2008, 08:28 PM
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6th Generation Texan
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Devil's Backbone,RR 32,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Lone Star Classics #240,Candy Apple Red,Keith Craft 418w - 602 HP,584 TQ
Posts: 8,157
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I think it's all pretty simple...Ron & Ernie have turned into a couple of slackers.
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08-25-2008, 10:03 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: McKinney,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF #867 gone....
Posts: 1,272
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The real question is posts-per-day. Who's clipping along at a rate sure to catch anyone.
I've got $10 on the post whore, Joe Wicked!
PS-you know i love you joe!
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MadMiles442 
She said, "The only thing I'll ask of you, you gotta promise not to stop when I say when..."
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08-26-2008, 02:44 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Shasta Lake,
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Patrickt,
Until this morning I hadn't even noticed the post count. If you just counted the posts that I have answered questions or actually helped anyone with a problem I would most likely have around 1,500. My knowledge of cars and especially fuel injection and the newer stuff is extremely limited and my knowledge of anything is very limited. So most of my posts are of the conversation type and don't really contribute to much. I can only answer questions abut stuff that I went through on my car when I had it.
Now Ernie on the other hand has answered a ton of questions and is a mechanic and he should be far ahead of me in posts.
After looking at that number I don't think I could just sit and type one letter in that many times in a year. He must be the fastest keyboard in the world.
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08-26-2008, 07:09 AM
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Beam Me Up Scottie
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Squantum (part of Quincy),
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF1049 Titanium w/black stripes, 351W with Trick Flow Heads, Tremec 3550
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4,294,967,295 this morning
4,294,967,295 last night
No posts in almost 12 hours. What a slacker!    
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Warren
'Liberals are maggots upon the life of this planet and need to get off at the next rotation.' (Jamo 2008)
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02-06-2009, 12:30 PM
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OK, I can't wane my curiosity.
Why such a high #? What am I missing?
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02-06-2009, 12:58 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 02roush
Why such a high #? What am I missing?
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In a 32 bit environment that is the largest number that a single register on the CPU can hold (a doubleword). In other words, it is 11111111111111111111111111111111, or in hexadecimal FFFFFFFF, or in decimal, 4294967295, or "zero minus one." Back in the old days, your 8088 computer (the one with two 5.25 inch floppies and no hard drive) had a processor with registers that only stored 16 bits, or 1111111111111111, or FFFF, or 65535 (the magic 640k limit of real mode computing, because we used "segments" and "offsets" to reference memory and FFFF was the bigest number you could stuff in to a register). So in the old days, his message count would be 65535. It was just a hiccup in the software that stuffed -1 in to his "message count." |
02-06-2009, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: California,
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
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Wgas............
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As you slide down the Banister of Life, may the splinters never be pointing the wrong way
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02-06-2009, 01:42 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Wgas............
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Well, he did ask. |
02-06-2009, 04:43 PM
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Location: Manchester,
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almost afraid to ask what time it is.
Knowing the work that PatrickT has put into his build, maybe I should ask him to explain Vroom-Vroom. I would get a new car in the process
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02-06-2009, 05:16 PM
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... maybe I should ask him to explain Vroom-Vroom.
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Mostly I just enjoyed bugging Rick P. with my answer.  |
02-06-2009, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Jacksonville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #570 w Shelby FE
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16 bits? 8088 was an 8 bit processor, like it's cousins the 8080, Z80 and the guy across the tracks, the Motorola 6800.
You guys would be suprised how many industrial controls out there are still running Z80's. Even as we speek there are thousands of Z80's and 6800's dilligantly making sure your "lumpy" water makes it to the sewer plant.
Sorry, couldn't resist a chance to get my post count up. |
02-06-2009, 07:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronbo
16 bits? 8088 was an 8 bit processor, like it's cousins the 8080, Z80 and the guy across the tracks, the Motorola 6800.
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No, Ronbo. The 8088 microprocessor has 16-bit registers, 16-bit internal data bus and 20-bit address bus, which allows the processor address up to 1 MB of memory. The 8088 uses the same segmented memory addressing as the 8086: the processor can address 64 KB of memory directly, and to address more than 64 KB of memory the CPU has to break the update into a few parts - update up to 64 KB of memory, change segment register, update another block of memory, update segment register again, and so on.
Source: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8088/ |
02-06-2009, 08:54 PM
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OK you got me going, I'll have to dig a little.
The link you posted doesn't state the instruction set used. Far as I remember the 286 was the first true 16 bit CPU in Intel flavor.
My bad, it's on the "architecture" page, 16 bit instruction code...
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02-06-2009, 09:03 PM
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Far as I remember the 286 was the first true 16 bit CPU in Intel flavor. |
No, the 8086 was a true 16 bit processor, the 8088 dropped the external bus width to 8, but was still 16 bit in every other way. Perhaps you're thinking of the really old 8008, which was 8 bit. The 286 had the ability to address 16 megs of memory by kicking the processor in to protected mode, but hardly anything was written in PM back then. What you could do (and you might remember this) was to referece the first 64k of extended memory even though you were in real mode. You did this by opening the A20 gate and then using a segment register loaded with FFFF to address the memory. It was called the "High Memory Area" and you used to load himem.sys to do that and "Load DOS High." Coming back to you yet?  |
02-06-2009, 09:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Cincinnati,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance, Roush 402R and CSX 6029
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Bo and Luke show?
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02-06-2009, 09:23 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JWilly
Bo and Luke show?
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If Ronbo keeps this up, I'm gonna start writing in assembly language soon.... |
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