[Liverpool] Liverpool Digest, Vol 175, Issue 8

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>    1. Re: Talk Proposals (Tim Dobson)
>    2. Place to drink (Paul Leech)
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> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 16:32:20 +0100
> From: Tim Dobson <lists at tdobson.net>
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Talk Proposals
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> Hey I've also got a talk proposal though at this point it's little more 
> than statement at the moment.
>
> I (possibly a small group us actually) would like to give a talk at 
> livlug about DFEY related stuff sometime before mid july if you'd be 
> interested at all?
>
> I'll be a little more specific about what it'd be about shortly, but at 
> this moment in time my hands are tied with several other things.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Tim
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> Simon Johnson wrote:
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> About a month ago I said I was planning to do a talk on simulating 
>> computers in Python. Most people said there's no way I'd have that done 
>> in a month and they were right!! In fact, I'm probably further away from 
>> having a useful talk than I was last month :)
>>
>> It turns out that as you get in to the nuts and bolts of trying to 
>> simulate the circuitry of a computer using software that there is rather 
>> a lot to it. As you might expect, the circuit is pretty complicated.
>>
>> The upshot of this is that to try and communicate how the whole circuit 
>> works in a single 40 minute slot is pretty tough. Instead I would like 
>> to do two talks.
>>
>> In the first talk I'm going to focus on the circuitry of the machine. 
>> The outline is given below. Rather than tackling the whole circuit, I'm 
>> going to focus on a few interesting parts of the circuit.
>>
>>     * A brief, high-level description of the computer and its parts.
>>     * The ALU - the bit that does the computation.
>>     * The program counter.
>>     * A simple memory circuit.
>>     * An overview of the input and output devices.
>>
>> At the end of the talk we'll have a little program running on the 
>> machine that says: "Hello World!"
>>
>> In the second talk, I'll walk through the steps required to build a 
>> compiler that targets the machine. The initial plan is to make a 
>> "Python-like" language that compiles down to machine code for the simple 
>> computer I've put together.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
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ref: Paul Leech
"I would welcome some constructive criticism to add to my armoury "

Are Microsoft a scum sucking bastard of an organisation?"
Is that not a suggestive question rather than a question?
"Micro$oft"
There is no dollar sign in there name and this type of thing is childish!
"Also, I didn't get the job I went for as they were still struggling 
with micros$hit did not see any need to change(peasants)..."
You know Paul these types of comments make you no better than a Windows 
zealot.