From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 11:18:42 -0800, wmartin  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/3/26 09:47, Phil Hobbs wrote:   
   >> john larkin  wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 16:23:54 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> john larkin  wrote:   
   >>>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 18:29:58 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> john larkin  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:58:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje    
   >>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> john larkin wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:09:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje    
   >>>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> john larkin wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Approximately 2% of all Russian men aged 20-50 may have been   
   killed or   
   >>>>>>>>>>> seriously wounded by Ukrainians, many with smart drones.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> The r/u casuality ratio is over 2:1 and likely increasing.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_emigration_dur   
   ng_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Why dio so many people sympathize with genocidal thugs?   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> tramp is, among many more bad and evil things, a genocidel thug who   
   >>>>>>>>>> killed thousands in Gaza by supplying arms to the religious   
   >>>>>>>>>> fanatic YouWitz sect   
   >>>>>>>>>> Killed people in Venezuela   
   >>>>>>>>>> killed people in boats   
   >>>>>>>>>> Killed US people in Minnesota   
   >>>>>>>>>> Probably had Epstein killed so he would not talk about his sex   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> He wants to do the same in Iran now, wants to kill Cubans, invade   
   >>>>>>>>>> Cuba, steals oil just like double you you bushman did in   
   >>>>>>>>>> Iraq   
   >>>>>>>>>> What a bunch of crap 'merrica has become   
   >>>>>>>>>> World may unload its radioactive waste on those divided states any   
   >>>>>>>>>> time now, the doomsday clock is making noises.   
   >>>>>>>>>> tramp ape has no respect for anything but maybe a gun on - or a   
   bullet   
   >>>>>>>>>> through the empty bubble mounted above his shoulders.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> ego maniac nutcase he is.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> And the more stupid the 'leader' the more the simple minded follow   
   >>>>>>>>>> him: Youws and 'Adam did it with Eve' reciters.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> The best thing Cuba could do for its people is start a war with the   
   US   
   >>>>>>>>> and lose. Of course,  the communist party is dumb, but not that dumb.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> John Larkin   
   >>>>>>>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   >>>>>>>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CONFIRM YOU ARE BRAINDEAD   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Has your keyboard died? Caps lock stuck? Or still using a Teletype?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I mean, it worked for Grand Fenwick.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Cheers   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Phil Hobbs   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You youngsters can't remember the joy of getting a high speed paper   
   >>>>> tape reader.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> John Larkin   
   >>>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   >>>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Well, I did use one, writing a program for an original Data General Nova   
   >>>> for an undergrad physics lab, circa 1978   
   >>>   
   >>> What language?   
   >>>   
   >> Fortran, iirc. To save machine time, Wolf Breuer The Lab Guy set it up to   
   >> run split core, so that we could run two or maybe four people’s programs at   
   >> once, and I expect that having multiple copies of the Basic interpreter   
   >> probably wouldn’t fit in RAM.   
   >>>   
   >>> None of the minicomputer companies survived.   
   >>   
   >> Well, DEC became part of Compaq, and then the Fiorina HP, which if you call   
   >> that survival.   
   >>   
   >Uh-oh, now you've done it. Mentioned the "unmentionable"! Well, I can't   
   >complain too loudly, I survived the era.   
   >>>   
   >>> I had a PDP-8 (4K words of 12-bit core memory) that ran Focal, an   
   >>> intrepretive language. I used it to simulate the throttle control and   
   >>> propulsion system, including hull dynamics, of the 32,000 horsepower   
   >>> LASH ships. I plotted the step responses on the Teletype. We showed it   
   >>> to the owners and got the job.   
   >>>   
   >>> Other engineers said that I couldn't use simple rectangular   
   >>> integration, that I had to use some runga-kuta math or something. But   
   >>> the elements of the control system were mostly unilateral, and simple   
   >>> integration will even work in a circuit if the steps are small.   
   >>   
   >> SPICE uses trapezoidal, which is the same order as rectangular.   
   >>   
   >> But the advice wasn’t altogether stupid. The usual fourth-order Runge-Kutta   
   >> algorithm has faster convergence on smooth solutions, is pretty simple to   
   >> code, and is self-starting like rectangular.   
   >>   
   >> Its main warts are that it’s slower than predictor-corrector or   
   >> Bulirsch-Stoer, and that it supplies no internal error estimate.  Sixth and   
   >> higher orders do supply that, but I’ve never coded them.   
   >>   
   >> Cheers   
   >>   
   >> Phil Hobbs   
   >>   
      
   Two books to read:   
      
   The HP Way by David Packard   
      
   The Journey by Carly Fiorina   
      
      
   John Larkin   
   Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
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