Then they’ll raise the price.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

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I might do what you said, column sensitive. A first-pass assembler which does spell checking and makes the corrections. M0V is a single replacement on MOV, MOV8 is closest to MOVB. For registered, R Oh must be R zero. But R Oh will be valid as a symbol name (curse your poor choice of symbol name). Alas, R1 is defined in the symbol table as a mnemonic for 1.

This idiom occurs in TMS9900 assembly (of which I have 2100+ pages to scan)

Indexed addressing into caller's register file: MOV @R1*2(R13),R0

Where R1 is 1, a small offset in #words so the operand is pointer to the word after where R13 points. Yet @RI(R13) is valid if RI is in the symbol table.

So there has to be some heuristic that starts at "is RI a defined symbol?" "Can a symbol be used in this context?" Yes/Nope: it is probably R1.

And R11 is used a lot.

Same curse on people who used I as a counter variable in type-in programs. Countless folks typed it as a 1 in expressions before magazines got better fonts.

They make a strategic investment in the DRAM maker. It's the same idea as buying an equity stake or entering a JV with a flat-panel maker. Or deploying cash to provide the latest EUV tooling to TSMC.

Large famous-brand computer maker has no expertise in running a fab.

I could punch holes in this idea right away. But it seems better than "tilting up your own fab".

I've got a 4" stack of wide-carriage COBOL. I guess it's two revisions of the same system so I only need to scan the newer half. Its probably from a TI Omni 810.

On the other hand, I've got 100 pages of code printed in compressed font by someone wanting to make sure that 80+ char lines fit within margins. So a lot of words just don't come out at all. A frequent error is "A" becomes "H", "O" becomes "U" because the top dots aren't "attached".

And columns of line numbers starting with 0001, or hex? The most confounding thing is OCR that thinks 00 is a sideways 8, and that dominates the uniform block, so it tries to interpret the whole column as sideways text. In another situation, it interprets two stacked lines (each starting with 0) as one line starting with 8 and it just goes off the rails.

So I've been working with automatic skew correction, then clipping it into rows, in order to get each line of text isolated from the surrounding context. When I do that, I get better results, but it is not great either.

I'm considering going all-in on training a new recognizer on snippets. For that, I'll be constructing "The Set of All As" and so on.

“Beers that say their own name:”

Schlitz!

Pabst!

Busch!

Blatz!

Hassenpfeffer sounds like a play on Harnischfegger, a maker of heavy construction equipment in Milwaukee.

Trivia: One of Henry Harnischfeger’s customers was Pabst Brewing Co.

Harnischfeger ran itself into the ground in the 90s. I worked in their headquarters for more than a decade. That building is prime real estate and became an FBI office.

Like great jokes, it has a point.

I've been able to OCR letter-quality printer output to 97% (mostly Os and Xs problems).

But it seems that machine-learning text-recognition is also now biased to reject computer code because it doesn't look like human language.

So any further spokes-person-ment is just more of the same -- no rule of law, just what we decide today or tomorrow.

Everything set by precedent from 1952-present is out the window.

He had to flee the country because his chosen party was purged. He survived a street battle. Then made a final visit to many of his comrades in prison.

Don’t presume that his views were shared with those who had influence.

He had admiration for his comrades in arms, especially the mess hall staff. He was on the workers side, but he was in the banned party, of the losing side of the war.

Above all, Orwell saw through the propaganda at home and the rest of the worlds deliberate misunderstanding of the whole situation. For instance, he saw that France had a tacit agreement with the Soviets to slow-walk supplying arms to the Nationalists, to ensure French financiers had protected investments in Spain’s railroads. And every newspaper outside Spain reported like Fox News.

256K bytes of RAM that way made us $128 in sales. I earned $3.35 an hour. Any inventory I accumulated went out the door next morning.

It was a brief moment, but it makes me wonder if we'll see refurbished memory in fashion next year.

BTW the company, OEM Parts, was one of the last great surplus shops, surviving until just recently. Probably there were still cardboard bins with my handwriting for all the TTL chips that weren't in demand.

.S (pronounced "dot S" or "print S") is for strings.

Both expect input from the stack.

." Begins a literal string you want printed immediately.

.S is a word that prints the stack (not destructively) pronounced "print stack"

EMIT in Forth prints one ASCII character (which byte value comes from the stack).

You are free to redefine whatever you like --it's your own language! Most of the punctuation in Forth has conventional meanings that help (a little) reading comprehension.

DECIMAL

: STAR 42 EMIT ;

: STARS ( n -- )

  0 DO STAR LOOP ;

5 STARS

***** ok