More weather...
Jun. 8th, 2008 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoThere really should be a mood "wet" and one for "dry", especially since they have "hot" and "cold". ;p
More heavy rain, more thunder, more alarms and warnings and watches. Everything is like a swamp here now, including the temperature. Low 80s becomes low 90s with the humidity.
Because we couldn't work in the garden, I "wasted" much time working on a programming project, namely getting output from the M80 assembler (a Microsoft product, but a very old one) under CP/M that can be used on the TRS-80 Model 100 computer. This may sound weird, but I have no working assembler for the Model 100 and need to build some custom code for it. I have several decent choices of assembler on CP/M, and since CP/M uses the same CPU family, it seemed logical. Turns out it can be done, but you have to sorta stand on your head to make it work. Still, it's a start. (The big issue is that CP/M is very primitive and assumes that all programs load at one fixed address at the bottom of memory. The Model 100, on the other hoof, wants them to load at the top of memory and won't let you go low at all. I ended up using an assembler pseudo-op that I've never in my life had to use before: .PHASE and .DEPHASE are made to do more or less just what I need.
BOINC is giving me so many little irritations that I'm about ready to just kill it. Several of the projects I've been participating in are generating defective work that puts the computer in a loop for hours and hours or else locks up and won't release the CPU for other uses. It requires constant attention to purge these bad work units when they show up.
Anyway, before the power goes out for yet a third time this evening (it just flickered again) I'll stop here.
More heavy rain, more thunder, more alarms and warnings and watches. Everything is like a swamp here now, including the temperature. Low 80s becomes low 90s with the humidity.
Because we couldn't work in the garden, I "wasted" much time working on a programming project, namely getting output from the M80 assembler (a Microsoft product, but a very old one) under CP/M that can be used on the TRS-80 Model 100 computer. This may sound weird, but I have no working assembler for the Model 100 and need to build some custom code for it. I have several decent choices of assembler on CP/M, and since CP/M uses the same CPU family, it seemed logical. Turns out it can be done, but you have to sorta stand on your head to make it work. Still, it's a start. (The big issue is that CP/M is very primitive and assumes that all programs load at one fixed address at the bottom of memory. The Model 100, on the other hoof, wants them to load at the top of memory and won't let you go low at all. I ended up using an assembler pseudo-op that I've never in my life had to use before: .PHASE and .DEPHASE are made to do more or less just what I need.
BOINC is giving me so many little irritations that I'm about ready to just kill it. Several of the projects I've been participating in are generating defective work that puts the computer in a loop for hours and hours or else locks up and won't release the CPU for other uses. It requires constant attention to purge these bad work units when they show up.
Anyway, before the power goes out for yet a third time this evening (it just flickered again) I'll stop here.
