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Contents 1 Toshiba TMPZ84C015 2 Answer for inner functions in Perl 3 Bass 4 Svensk jazz 5 '8085 architecture, which resembles neither CISC nor RISC' 6 So which language was C's enumerations influenced by? 7 7400 series 8 bytecode

[edit] Toshiba TMPZ84C015

Not sure why you re-uploaded Image:TMPZ84C015AF.png — the original one was removed from the article, but hasn't been deleted yet. BTW, it's probable best to upload any GFDL or Creative Commons images from other versions of Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons when you use them. Cheers, --StuartBrady (Talk) 18:56, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure I understand completely what is happening here, but the first time I uploaded this image (a week ago) I forgot to select a license, so I immediately uploaded it again, but this time under the name TMPZ84C015.png (without "AF") because I didn't know how to erase the previous one (or change attributes, if possible?) and that is the version currently displayed on the Z80-page. I probably should learn a little about Wikimedia Commons, and other stuff as well — I'm still a novice here at WP... -- HenkeB 21:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Take a look at Image:TMPZ84C015AF.png, and choose 'edit this page'. You should see the licensing information is specified with templates. {{no license}} was added by OrphanBot when it removed the image from the Z80 article. You'd have had to change {{don't know}} to the correct template — in this case, it's {{GFDL}}. Wikipedia:Image copyright tags has a list of them. --StuartBrady (Talk) 22:24, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I've tried that (on both files), I suppose the one with {{no license}} will be deleted soon(?).

I will probably use Wikimedia Commons next time — thanks for your guidance! -- HenkeB 23:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Answer for inner functions in Perl

at http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilisateur:Stefp

[edit] Bass

The early bass players used the slap to add volume in between the bass notes and it seems clearly imitative of a snare drum "backbeat." By saying "percussive" this implies that it's a deep, drum-like sound and there is an element of this due to the fact that the wood of the bass body will vibrate sympathetically with the slap. However, the slapping of the thick metal-wound strings against the hardwood of the fingerboard, in all the traditional jazz and rockabilly bands I've heard who use this technique, it produces a strong trebly metallic "click," as opposed to a deep "thump" Badagnani 00:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

With gut strings, are the lowest strings wound or just pure gut? How would you describe the sound produced by the slapping of gut strings? I've seen the clip of Cab Calloway's "Reefer Man" and it sounds similar to the more modern examples I've heard. Badagnani 00:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Interesting to hear about this music in Sverige. I think you're describing the difference between the technique as done with gut and metal-wrapped strings. I'd agree with you on the sound produced by the gut strings. I think we could split the difference in the description, while acknowledging that with either kind of string there's a sharpness (maybe somewhat like a "crack" of a snare drum rather than a "click") to the attack which is contrasting to the mellow, round depth of the bass string's plucking -- though the metal strings create a sharper attack. So it creates a substitute for a snare drum when a band doesn't have a drummer. I think another reason it imitates the snare drum is that if one slaps more than one (or all four) of the strings against the fingerboard, they don't all strike at exactly the same instant, creating a complexity of sound that is similar to the sound of the snare drum, with its many wires jangling against the bottom drumhead. By the way, I listen to a lot of Swedish folk artists, one of my favorite being Garmarna who do old Swedish songs with modern instrumentation. Badagnani 02:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Svensk jazz

I'll look for that music! I heard of something similar, but it may have been Norwegian songs that were learned and arranged by Art Farmer, I think, maybe in the 1960s or 1970s. Badagnani 04:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it's here: http://www.amazon.ca/Sweden-Love-Art-Farmer/dp/B00000IWNQ Do you know this one? Badagnani 04:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

You can try this one (it's working for me now). One phrase in "De Salde" reminds me of a phrase from Grieg's "Peer Gynt." http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6764228/a/To+Sweden+With+Love%2FLive+At+The+Half+Note.htm Badagnani 05:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Good night? Have you got the midnight sun these days?  :) Badagnani 07:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] '8085 architecture, which resembles neither CISC nor RISC'

tell me whether 8085 is a RISC or CISC design? It's CISC. When the term RISC was invented, CISC was invented to describe all the other conventional architectures of the time. Thus, it meant approximately non-RISC, and means much the same today, although VLIW, dataflow, and some other minor categories would typically be excluded. The 8085 is not particularly odd for a CISC design, although it certainly differs from a VAX or 68000. The latter are late developments of the "CISC" design tradition, but their predecessors like PDP-11, Nova, PDP-8 show more resemblance to the 8085. RISC and CISC are not great categories, but trying to reform their meanings at this point is hopeless; better to just let them wither. -R. S. Shaw 20:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad you belive those are not great categories, but how can they wither away if we continue to re-establish them over an over (particulary on WP)?

Regarding their more concrete technical meaning: I assume you can agree that one of the central ideas behind RISC was to leave complicated addressing modes out, as such addressing was normally implemented by varied length microcode routines, which, at the time, was very hard and/or expensive to fit into a pipelined execution model.

With that in mind, it's a little hard to digest that architectures with even simpler addressing modes (such as the 8008) should be labeled as complex. I have no problems with the term "RISC", as it means something. "CISC", on the other hand, is a sloppy retroactive label (as implied by yourself), which can meaningfully describe only a subset of all non-RISC computers. As such, the term should be used very sparingly and only for machines that fits the description. To just give up, as you suggested, and quietly accept whatever usage of terms and language, is wrong :)

HenkeB 22:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] So which language was C's enumerations influenced by?

By the time enum was added to C, in a typically integer-oriented way, other Bell Labs staff were contributing to C in various ways, and presumably some of them were familiar with Pascal. Note that Pascalisms like case ranges were never picked up for C. My objection to the addition of Pascal as an "influence" is that whatever influence it might have had occurred only after C was substantially complete, was indirect, and was not as significant as the other listed influences. — DAGwyn 01:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 7400 series

Hi. I've been watching several rounds of edit-revert-restore happening on 7400 series. May I suggest that rather than continuing the Wikipedia:Edit war, you discuss the issue on talk:7400 series and come to consensus that all can live with? Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I made two edits - with sensible comments, hardly a war... Thanks. / HenkeB (talk) 04:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I've seen edit wars. This is not one. I don't think the proposed addition adds any content to the article, that's all. Too many Wikipedia articles are written like school assignments that have to hit 1000 words. It's just padding. --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I suppose I once wrote that because I felt many (computer oriented) people had a far too rigid, "modular", or "square" (pardon my limited English) view on what electronic components really are about; and, regarding padding, check out some of the articles on history, countries, or similar topics... / HenkeB (talk) 04:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] bytecode

I've looked into google and I think it's seventies, smalltalk has it, p-code too, may be some lisp implementation. May be I'll just ask RMS about it, likely to be on old paper only and not accessible to google. Guerby (talk) 21:45, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

RMS = Richard Stallman Guerby (talk) 17:20, 11 June 2008 (UTC)