Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 25

We decided to take a long weekend in November 2014 to spend some days in the beach… A bit of evidence!

On November 14, as a great way to say goodbye to a semester, a good friend came to my class again to present a topic to the group; a good way to sum up the contents of this talk is “everything you ever wondered about persistent storage”. As people who follow my blog know, I like inviting my friends to present selected topics in my Operating Systems class. Many subjects will stick better if presented by more than a single viewpoint, and different experiences will surely enrich the group’s learning. So, here is Rolando Cedillo — A full gigabyte of...

The line of BASIC code that appears as the subject for this post is the title for a book I just finished reading — And enjoyed thoroughly. The book is available online for download under a CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 License, so you can take a good look at it before (or instead of) buying it. Although it’s among the books I will enjoy having on my shelf; the printing is of a very enjoyable good quality. And what is this book about? Well, of course, it analizes that very simple line of code, as it ran on the Commodore 64 thirty...