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To: John Mansfield who wrote (897)	1/15/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

police tape From C.S.Y2K ;-))) John ------ >On the flip side, has anyone else used police tape to keep PHM's out? >-- RonKenyon Yes! We have. I didn't have enough of the yellow "Police Line - Do Not Cross" tape so I xeroxed it onto yellow paper, cut it into strips, taped the strips together and put it up when no one was looking. It looked pretty cheesy but everyone recognized what it was. I put it across the office door of a couple other guys. They left it up for a week, entered their office by carefully ducking under the tape. Cory Hamasaki

To: John Mansfield who wrote (897)	1/15/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Everything you wanted to know about processors ...but were afraid to ask. This is a very nice document. Contains: - lots of background reading on processor families - architectures - history - Forth being a language well suited for embedded systems; I was not aware of this fact. Has it really been used a lot in embedded sw? etc John ----- infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu ----- Forth: Stack oriented period . Forth was developed over several years around 1970, by Charles Moore, for controlling telescopes (it was intended to be a fourth generation language, but one computer he used (the IBM 1130) only accepted five character identifiers, so it became "Forth"). It's a fast, small, and extensible language, which makes it good for embedded systems, and since forth code is interpreted by a virtual machine, it's also extremely portable.