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To: Columbo who wrote (156)	10/29/1997 10:02:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

To Columbo - I seriously doubt you know anything about software. I also doubt you you have a four year degree, probably an AS. Since you are such a fan of Excel, I would imagine Dilbert works for you. Would changing "process" to "task" help? Do you know what a Model-View-Controller is w/o looking it up? You are defining what we mean by "ignorant masses". Everything you have posted here makes me believe you are probably a teenager having fun with other people. Obviously you can't respond to my request for a real code fragment. Let me assure you, I could program circles around you, have developed more programs on the Model-View-Controller model than you've had hot meals, and have a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from one of the best schools in the country. Maybe you are just bad at making points. Perhaps you don't have a command of the English language. Most likely you are an engineer with little or no communication skills which will limit your career seriously. Simply calling me "ignorant" is not much of an argument. If you have any real point to make, make it. Otherwise you are just making a fool of yourself.

To: Columbo who wrote (156)	10/29/1997 11:44:00 AM
From: Typhoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Hi Columbo. See you're having fun as well. Here's one of my favorite code fragments. The best part is that it runs great without an operating system. We could have a fun game of "guess the processor". Very few people would be able to guess this one. This fragment contains an unnecessary instruction, but it still works. OVER: MVI A,0 STAW ECNTCUR ;CLEAR ERROR COUNT HOLDING REGISTER LDAW PNTCNT MOV C,A ;POINT COUNTER MXP: LDAX D+ ;GET SCALED DATA POINT MOV B,A ;COPY TO B LDAX H ;GET MAX TABLE POINT DCR C NOP SUBNB A,B ;A <- A-B MAX-DATA JMP MER ;SKIP THIS INSTR IF OK JMP GHI MER: LDAX H ;GET MAX POINT AGAIN SUBNB B,A ;B <- B-A DATA-MAX NOP MOV A,B ;RESULT IN B, PUT BACK IN A ;UPDATE ERROR SUM: