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Forum: General February 24th 14, 08:11 PM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/23/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
On 23/02/2014 6:15 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 2/23/2014 4:41 PM, charlie wrote:
The front panel on many of the old mainframes and minicomputers
allowed
...
Forum: General February 23rd 14, 11:45 PM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/23/2014, J. P. Gilliver (John) posted:
In message , charlie
writes:
[]
At the time, the only out we had in order to meet contract
...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 07:34 PM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/21/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
On 21/02/2014 9:23 AM, Robert Redelmeier wrote:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Yousuf Khan
wrote in part:
But it goes to...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 05:23 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Paul posted:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 20/02/2014 8:19 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Looking briefly at http://ref.x86asm.net/ and
http://www.sandpile.org/
gives me the...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 04:02 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
On 20/02/2014 8:19 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Looking briefly at http://ref.x86asm.net/ and
http://www.sandpile.org/
gives me the impression that the...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 03:46 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
On 20/02/2014 8:19 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Looking briefly at http://ref.x86asm.net/ and
http://www.sandpile.org/
gives me the impression that the...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 01:35 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 2/20/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
I was asked this question recently, and I just realized that I
really don't know the answer to this. I may have known at...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 01:29 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 2/20/2014, Gene E. Bloch posted:
Looking briefly at http://ref.x86asm.net/ and
http://www.sandpile.org/ gives me the impression that the *isn't* a
...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 01:26 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Gene E. Bloch posted:
Looking briefly at http://ref.x86asm.net/ and
http://www.sandpile.org/ gives me the impression that the *isn't* a
...
Forum: General February 21st 14, 01:19 AM Posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 38
Views: 14,925
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How many x86 instructions?

On 2/20/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
I was asked this question recently, and I just realized that I really
don't know the answer to this. I may have known at one time, but I
don't anymore, as...
Forum: General February 2nd 14, 12:37 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 37
Views: 1,938
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How do I compare CPU speed versus number of cores for performance?

On 2/01/2014, Ken Blake posted:
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:21:20 -0500, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 31/01/2014 2:36 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On 1/31/2014, Yousuf Khan...
Forum: General February 2nd 14, 12:34 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 37
Views: 1,938
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How do I compare CPU speed versus number of cores for performance?

On 2/01/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
On 31/01/2014 2:36 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/31/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
Don't know which "townie" you live in, but up here in Canada, 4WD
is
...
Forum: General January 31st 14, 07:36 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 37
Views: 1,938
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How do I compare CPU speed versus number of cores for performance?

On 1/31/2014, Yousuf Khan posted:
Don't know which "townie" you live in, but up here in Canada, 4WD is
actually useful inside the town. Snow, ice, freezing rain, etc.

"Townie" is slang for town...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 13th 14, 07:41 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 51
Views: 1,840
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
OT How safe is a 7-zip passworded file?

On 1/13/2014, The Razor's Edge posted:
88 to the power of 30 is a Vigintillion or Centillion range.

Or maybe 2.16x10**58, which I can understand :-)

I didn't know the terms, so I looked them up...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 9th 14, 03:41 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 887
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How to prefix comments in a Windows registry (*.reg) file?

On 1/08/2014, Mike Easter posted:
Sometimes I prefer one syllable when it will do, such as the
efficient 'crunch' for the pound/number/hash or 'bang' for the
exclamation mark/point (which has...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 8th 14, 10:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 887
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How to prefix comments in a Windows registry (*.reg) file?

On 1/08/2014, Paul posted:
On 1/8/2014 4:45 PM, Mike Barnes wrote:
John Doe wrote:
The pound sign "#" seems to work, is that correct?

I've always used a semicolon.

BTW in the UK,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 8th 14, 10:29 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 20
Views: 887
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
How to prefix comments in a Windows registry (*.reg) file?

On 1/08/2014, Mike Barnes posted:
John Doe wrote:
The pound sign "#" seems to work, is that correct?

I've always used a semicolon.

BTW in the UK, and elsewhere I suspect, "#" is a hash...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 7th 14, 08:02 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 51
Views: 1,840
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
OT How safe is a 7-zip passworded file?

On 1/07/2014, Paul posted:
On 1/7/2014 2:06 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Paul typed:
On 1/7/2014 11:28 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 7/01/2014 6:46 AM,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 7th 14, 08:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 51
Views: 1,840
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
OT How safe is a 7-zip passworded file?

On 1/07/2014, BillW50 posted:
I personally find that story very hard to believe myself. Desktops
back then the power switch actually physically disconnected the power
(just like pulling the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 6th 14, 10:46 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 51
Views: 1,840
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
OT How safe is a 7-zip passworded file?

On 1/06/2014, Mr. Man-wai Chang posted:
On 6/01/2014 11:38 PM, Paul wrote:
On 1/6/2014 10:11 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
And BTW, your government could always arrest your physical body...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 4th 14, 07:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 14
Views: 1,063
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
Create a bootable ISO image file from a bootable CD/DVD?

On 1/04/2014, David posted:
At Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:48:47 -0500, Paul rearranged some electrons to
write:

On 1/3/2014 1:27 AM, John Doe wrote:
Practically every search result changes the...
Forum: Dell Computers December 17th 13, 12:44 AM Posted to comp.sys.laptops,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 2,736
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
SSD - is it ok to use in XP laptop

On 12/16/2013, J. P. Gilliver (John) posted:
In message , Gene E. Bloch
writes:
On 12/16/2013, (PeteCresswell) posted:
Per...
Forum: Dell Computers December 16th 13, 08:23 PM Posted to comp.sys.laptops,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 2,736
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
SSD - is it ok to use in XP laptop

On 12/16/2013, (PeteCresswell) posted:
Per (PeteCresswell):
Also, is there anything to be gained by having Windows use several
paging files? I've got 3 2-TB discs used for media plus a 1-TB...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 16th 13, 08:10 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 78
Views: 2,168
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
Microsoft's perennial incompetence...

On 12/16/2013, John Doe posted:
It may be a matter of semantics as many respondents have
indicated,

I love semantics.

They make some great antivirus software.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling...
Forum: Dell Computers December 13th 13, 06:24 PM Posted to comp.sys.laptops,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 2,736
Posted By Gene E. Bloch[_4_]
SSD - is it ok to use in XP laptop

On 12/12/2013, Ken Blake posted:
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:47:41 -0800, Todd
wrote:

On 12/11/2013 07:18 PM, ps56k wrote:

My biggest concern, is that when a SSD goes...
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