09:00
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Surplus Computers
Parking Lot Sale
This is at their new warehouse location, not at the site of their
old retail store!
27 Bonaventura Dr., San Jose, CA 95134
(Off Interstate Highway 101, cross streets are Trimble & First Street.)
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10:00
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Coffee and a Chat
The talks will begin at 11am to accommodate those who want to go to the Surplus
Computers parking lot sale. Coffee will be served at Cogswell for those who
want to have a cup and a chat.
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11:00
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F# Revisited - CH Ting
Ting will discuss the various functions of his current F# Forth implementation
and the problems he's seen with it . He's pondering revisions and will explore
the direction the project is headed. He is eager for discussion, critique, and
input before he proceeds.
- "Attached is the tutorial of Mandelbrot
plots on F#. I added the floating point computations and more comments. I
think it will be useful for those who want to make use of F# in Windows."
- Regards, Ting
- support-at-offete.com
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12:00
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Lunch
Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos.
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13:30
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Introductions, announcements, rumors, and
random access
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14:00
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Minimal Instruction Set Computers: A Tale of
Quirky Little Machines - Don Roberts
"Over the years Moore and Ting have developed instruction sets that
carefully balance a minimalist philosophy against the needs of program
development and efficient execution. Practicality aside, what's the minimum
number of instructions needed to support universal computation? Rather than
theory, I'll discuss a couple of examples including an actual machine built in
the late 1960s with only 8 opcodes."
- Powerpoint slides - 224 Kb
- Wikipedia article:
One
instruction set computer
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15:00
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- Break
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15:15
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Shareware, Freeware, and Trialware -
All Assembled
Bring in the name of your favorite bit of download. Anything from violin tuners
to packet sniffers is fair game.
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15:45
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Discussion of presentation ideas for the
July SVFIG meeting
This means you!
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16:00
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Adjourn
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Other items:
- Ultra-Slim
Wireless Presentation and Multimedia Remote
- Computer Documents Archive by
Al Kossow
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