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What shocked me when I saw Elite for the first time, is the huge number of star systems with their own names, population size and descriptions. I knew there was no way such volume of data in the tiny executable file.


If you look at the version in C that Ian C Bell did for the trading engine, you can see how all that was procedurally generated. It is fascinating.


Also got such email from FastSpring.

I dislike this $150 payment requirement from them!


Thank you for mentioning Wasniak book! I really enjoyed iWas.

Another great book is “Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer” (Second Edition) 2nd Edition by Paul Freiberger (Author), Michael Swaine (Author)

And I like as well a book from Merrill Chapman. “In search of stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters”.


I like that the plugin creates my own dictionary. It was the way I learned many words.


I remember Turbo Pascal 3.0, the one that generated COM files for MS-DOS (like EXE files, but about 2KB smaller).

I loved that Turbo.com and COM files 30 years ago!

later I started to use Turbo Pascal 5.5 with OO support and a good IDE.


Not only that, but Turbo Pascal was very efficient as a linker too, linking only library code that was actually used in the program, as opposed to Turbo C/C++ that would link the entire library. As a result, "Hello, World" was ~2KB for TP vs. ~15KB for TC. I may not remember the sizes correctly, but the difference was dramatic. Of course, for bigger programs the difference was a bit smaller. And it was fast!


Jeff Duntemann's book on Turbo Pascal is still one of my favorite texts of all time. He combined his enthusiasm for the subject with a deft hand at explaining concepts intuitively.

And of course, there was Peter Norton's Guide to the IBM PC. The bible, back then.


I have seen these pages few years ago. But I could not find source code for these examples


> The source code implementing the projections below is only available on request for a small fee.


There are IP cameras with a microSD card slot. A memory card allows you to store the archive directly on the camera itself or duplicate the recording if a failure occurs in the local network. Simultaneously, many Video Management Systems , in the event of a loss of connection, can copy the missing archive from the camera memory card after restoring the network connection.


If you have multiple disks it does worth to use them in RAID5 or RAID6 array.


60 days is another very popular archive depth.

In some countries, for some types of buildings, the archive depth can be regulated by law. These can be buildings with a requirement for anti-terrorist measures, for instance, including sports facilities, facilities with a mass presence of people, and railway striations / airports.


It seems it is very useful free tool!


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