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chrisv
Ed Cryer said:
Too bad a spell checker won't tag non-words instead.
Too bad a spell checker won't tag non-words instead.
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Char Jackson
I believe the quote you referenced above refers to 640K, not 64K.
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Bill Bradshaw
I had a Tandy 1200A with a 10 meg which at some point I upgraded to 20
meg. In 1990 I bought a computer with a 100 meg harddrive wondering
what I would ever use 100 megs for.
<Bill>
meg. In 1990 I bought a computer with a 100 meg harddrive wondering
what I would ever use 100 megs for.
<Bill>
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Ed Cryer
How would 640K relate to any IT hardware architecture limitation?
Ed
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Paul
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Leala
Yes t-burp speel chucker has hiccups once in a while.
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XS11E
"Allot" - you know, to meat out
"Meat out" = to OD on steak?
Thanks allot! <GD&R>
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Gene E. Bloch
To tell the truth, I didn't assign (in my mind's eye) any meaning to my
funny spelling
But taking a cue from you I'd have to say "to OD on steak at a
restaurant".
Your wellcome <small smile>
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choro
Well, I'm old, I guess. I got my first hard drive, a whopping 10MB, when
the price got reasonable at last - a mere $800.
Yesterday I bought a 4GB USB drive just to have one for sneaker net use,
and I carefully perused the shelf to find one for only $7
Never mind the change in hard drive cost/byte...
BTW, I still have an ST-225. I am using it for a doorstop - literally:
the door to this room tends to shut itself, thanks to gravity (no, not
the newsreader).
Sir, how have you managed to skew your house?
Was it yesterday I was reading about a church tower (was it?) in Germany
that is more skewed than the Tower of Pisa. How does your house compare?
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choro
To tell the truth, I didn't assign (in my mind's eye) any meaning to my
funny spelling
But taking a cue from you I'd have to say "to OD on steak at a
restaurant".
Your wellcome<small smile>
It is amazing how many times the spell-checker suggests the correct
spelling and I look at the word I keyed in and the spelling suggested by
the spell-checker, and I say to myself, "WTF is the difference?" because
I want to and my eye sees the mis-spelt word in its correct spelling.
Unfortunately I have to go through this rigmarole as sometimes what the
spell-checker suggests would change the meaning completely or make the
sentence incomprehensible.
It is a pity that we cannot add our own personal dictionaries to the
standard dictionary all the time.
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Gene E. Bloch
Probably just by letting my aura affect it.
Not nearly as spectacular.
To be serious for a moment:
1. The skew is not visible without a level, and the door moves slowly.
2. Anyway, I live in the ring of fire around the Pacific Ocean, so this
house has lived through a few earthquakes. The last one that I felt was
only a few weeks ago, mid January, IIRC. It was quite noticeable, but
mild.
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Gene E. Bloch
I have a friend who is a medical technologist and is a bit dyslexic.
Since, along with letters in words, she tends to exchange digits in
numbers, she has trained herself, by dint of hard work, to be *very*
careful.
Can't afford to reverse digits in that field
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Lewis
In message <[email protected]>
I suggest you walk, no run to your nearest dictionary and look up the
word allot, which has been in the English language a very long time.
500+ years.
I suggest you walk, no run to your nearest dictionary and look up the
word allot, which has been in the English language a very long time.
500+ years.
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Char Jackson
Say what? Every spell checker I've ever used does exactly that.
Non-words are tagged, suggestions are offered, and the user can choose
to accept one or none of the suggestions, etc. Where people sometimes
get into trouble is when they 'accept all' and simply let the spell
checker make its best guess for each misspelled word.
Regarding Andy, specifically, I've seen his posts for well over 10
years now and it's obvious by his spelling and grammar that he doesn't
use a spell checker at all.
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Char Jackson
He might have been referring to "alot" rather than "allot".
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R. C. White
?Hi, choro.
Depends somewhat on your mail/news application. In the oft-maligned WLMail,
the spell checker offers to Add any word that it does not recognize. And,
while it is not always easy, we can delete or correct entries that sneak
into our personal dictionary.
In the current WLMail (build 15.4.3504.1109), on the Spelling tab in Options
| Mail, there is a nice Edit button under Custom dictionary. Sadly
(infuriatingly!), it doesn't do anything but blink when we click it. :>(
But we can find our own custom dictionary. For myself, it is at:
C:\Users\RC\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Proof\lang0409.lex
The "0409" in the filename is a hex number that translates to 1033 decimal,
the code for the English (US) language, so it may be different in your case.
Use Notepad - or your other favorite text editor - to add, delete or change
any words that you choose. You can even copy'n'paste all the words from
your own custom dictionary into here, if you like.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
[email protected]
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-9/30/10)
Windows Live Mail Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3504.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64
SP1 RC
"choro" wrote in message
It is amazing how many times the spell-checker suggests the correct
spelling and I look at the word I keyed in and the spelling suggested by
the spell-checker, and I say to myself, "WTF is the difference?" because
I want to and my eye sees the mis-spelt word in its correct spelling.
Unfortunately I have to go through this rigmarole as sometimes what the
spell-checker suggests would change the meaning completely or make the
sentence incomprehensible.
It is a pity that we cannot add our own personal dictionaries to the
standard dictionary all the time.
--
choro
*****
"choro" wrote in message
It is amazing how many times the spell-checker suggests the correct
spelling and I look at the word I keyed in and the spelling suggested by
the spell-checker, and I say to myself, "WTF is the difference?" because
I want to and my eye sees the mis-spelt word in its correct spelling.
Unfortunately I have to go through this rigmarole as sometimes what the
spell-checker suggests would change the meaning completely or make the
sentence incomprehensible.
It is a pity that we cannot add our own personal dictionaries to the
standard dictionary all the time.
Depends somewhat on your mail/news application. In the oft-maligned WLMail,
the spell checker offers to Add any word that it does not recognize. And,
while it is not always easy, we can delete or correct entries that sneak
into our personal dictionary.
In the current WLMail (build 15.4.3504.1109), on the Spelling tab in Options
| Mail, there is a nice Edit button under Custom dictionary. Sadly
(infuriatingly!), it doesn't do anything but blink when we click it. :>(
But we can find our own custom dictionary. For myself, it is at:
C:\Users\RC\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Proof\lang0409.lex
The "0409" in the filename is a hex number that translates to 1033 decimal,
the code for the English (US) language, so it may be different in your case.
Use Notepad - or your other favorite text editor - to add, delete or change
any words that you choose. You can even copy'n'paste all the words from
your own custom dictionary into here, if you like.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
[email protected]
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-9/30/10)
Windows Live Mail Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3504.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64
SP1 RC
"choro" wrote in message
To tell the truth, I didn't assign (in my mind's eye) any meaning to my
funny spelling
But taking a cue from you I'd have to say "to OD on steak at a
restaurant".
Your wellcome<small smile>
It is amazing how many times the spell-checker suggests the correct
spelling and I look at the word I keyed in and the spelling suggested by
the spell-checker, and I say to myself, "WTF is the difference?" because
I want to and my eye sees the mis-spelt word in its correct spelling.
Unfortunately I have to go through this rigmarole as sometimes what the
spell-checker suggests would change the meaning completely or make the
sentence incomprehensible.
It is a pity that we cannot add our own personal dictionaries to the
standard dictionary all the time.
--
choro
*****
"choro" wrote in message
To tell the truth, I didn't assign (in my mind's eye) any meaning to my
funny spelling
But taking a cue from you I'd have to say "to OD on steak at a
restaurant".
Your wellcome<small smile>
It is amazing how many times the spell-checker suggests the correct
spelling and I look at the word I keyed in and the spelling suggested by
the spell-checker, and I say to myself, "WTF is the difference?" because
I want to and my eye sees the mis-spelt word in its correct spelling.
Unfortunately I have to go through this rigmarole as sometimes what the
spell-checker suggests would change the meaning completely or make the
sentence incomprehensible.
It is a pity that we cannot add our own personal dictionaries to the
standard dictionary all the time.
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Ed Cryer
Ah, thanks for that. IBM, eh? Their original home PC wasn't a byte
machine then. Was it based on a 32-bit word? With 20 bits for RAM
addressing?
No wonder "IBM-compatible" became a buzz-word.
Here in the UK we had ICL, and their 1900 series had a 24-bit word
architecture.
Ed
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relic
Lewis said:
It was obvious the OP meant "alot" which is NOT in the English language at
all.
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Tim Slattery
Don't know what you mean by a "byte machine". The basic unit of memory
was, as it still is, an eight-bit byte.
The original IBM PCs used a 16-bit word. Intel engineered a kludge to
allow 20-bit addresses, therefore the machine could use 1MB of RAM.
Only 640K of that would be made available to the user.
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Gene E. Bloch
The PC has always been byte-addressed, with variable length instructions
and data "words" (fields).
Addressing was via a 20 bit base address in a base register plus a 16
bit offset. The low order four bits of the base address were by
definition zero, so that address was held in a 16 bit register.
In the hardware, the base register value was shifted left four bits and
added to the unshifted offset to get the 20-bit effective address.
There was also relative addressing, where the address value in the
instruction was added algebraically to the current program counter to
get the effective address.
All the above is still true, with changes to the lengths of fields and
the addition of mapped memory addressing.
Assembly language programming was a lot of fun in that system.