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Curt Palme
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| garyfritz wrote: | No way. Curt only drinks foo-foo girlie drinks.  |
Damn straight!
Actually I rested the camera on the projector and shot. Too lazy to set up the tripod..
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perisoft
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The interesting thing is that Electrohome obviously used a long int for the total hour counter, or it would have rolled over at 65535... so they have some confidence in their kit! Now we just have to get somebody to pass the 16.7 million hour mark and we'll really know how they coded...
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Heywood Jablome
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| perisoft wrote: | | The interesting thing is that Electrohome obviously used a long int for the total hour counter, or it would have rolled over at 65535... so they have some confidence in their kit! Now we just have to get somebody to pass the 16.7 million hour mark and we'll really know how they coded... |
Or a packed integer... Don't laugh: I've had to use packed ints in one of my many roles (embedded micro interface design) within the last couple years. Chrysler stores their part number in packed form, at least on their J1850 bus vehicles.
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Curt Palme
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: |
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I usually have pretty good success when I tell women I have a packed integer. Dunno what you're talkin' about...
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AnalogRocks
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Is that anything like an impacted wisdom toenail?
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Heywood Jablome
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2 bytes collapsed into one, since 0-9 can be represented by four bits. IBM used this a lot on mainframes when disk was expensive enough for government and large insurance companies, and lots of embedded stuff still uses it (even tho flash, PROM, and other Non-Volitile storage has enjoyed exponential growth also.)
11170 can be represented by three bytes rather than five... 11 17 0F (this is IBM packed int format, with hex F always padding out the last byte.)
And, yes... each half-byte is called a nibble!
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Curt Palme
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| Heywood Jablome wrote: |
And, yes... each half-byte is called a nibble! |
For ONCE the computer industry makes perfect sense..
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