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[econjack]

I just couldn't resist this:

[DungeonMaster]

LOL! that defines my conversations with my wife.

[cynwoody]

Here's a project for your Irving ISD English class:

[PushinTin]

All octal numbers can be define in 3 bits vs 4 for Hex. This helped with 30 bit registers. The old Air Traffic Control computer was a Sperry Univac programmed in Octal in 32 bit registers. 15 bit upper and 15 bit lower with 2 parity bits.

[Lazamataz]

Best programmer joke in the world:

The wife tells her programmer husband: “Go to the store, and get me a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”

The programmer returns home with 12 gallons of milk.

[Mannaggia l'America]

The early Motorola chips (e.g., the 6800) used octal in their development work, but I forgot why they opted for that numbering system.

Octal was popular on older systems that has 12-bit, 24-bit, or 36-bit words, but hex became popular once the industry standardized on 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit words.

But octal hung around as a legacy thing for some systems. I cut my programming teeth on a DEC PDP-11 system, which was a 16-bit CPU, but octal was used in most of their system docs and in the MACRO-11 assembler.

Wikipedia says that the 6800 was modeled after the PDP-11 CPU, so that may be why systems programming docs and tools used octal early on.

Later I moved on to 6502 and 8080 and x86 programming, and hex is much easier to deal with in my opinion. I always disliked octal.

[SeekAndFind]

Ahh... Object-oriented programmers...

THE ROMANTIC O-O Developer ....

[tophat9000]

A true programmer would not use “10” (2 bits places) for 2 logic states. ....instead use a bit switch, one bit place (in 0 or 1) for the 2 states... i.e those that know binary..... those that do not know binary

[Lazamataz]

A .NET guy also knows that there are three states to a binary variable: 1, 0, and null (unassigned).

[Vendome]

a 1-bit joke, in an 8-bit parity world...

[HeadOn]

LOL! Way to go! That’s the first thing I thought of!

[Vendome]

ping

[Dalberg-Acton]

Wouldn’t the answer be one minute? The boys move half the distance and the girls move half, so the entire distance is covered on the first move.

[tophat9000]

Many years back I was doing hardware inventory..

And I couldn’t figure out why my count was coming up one short

Till I realized I was counting everything starting with zero

[cynwoody]

Speaking of programming jokes, have any of y’all ever heard the expression ‘he did a BAL to the brain and got an 806’?

What fraction of internet billionaires are younger than that error code?

Although, I see it's still in use.

[tophat9000]

ever notice its only computer people that really use the word “nor” in everyday conversation

[DungeonMaster]

Wouldn’t the answer be one minute? The boys move half the distance and the girls move half, so the entire distance is covered on the first move.

I was trying to minimize typing. I should have said "Half the distance to the center".

That's a whole SW engineer thing, read those requirements closely ;-)

[dfwgator]

I still remember the old joke, “What’s a SOC4?”

To keep your feet warm.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Programming is like a woman, one missed period and it all goes to crap.”

It works better and is more “hysterically” relevant to preface that sentence with “COBOL”.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Much better than the OP, which was good.

[econjack]

I taught in the CS department at a Big 10 university and it is the second form that is really scary. Debugging was often willy-nilly changing things with no plan but sometimes it worked and they had no clue why. Not good.