Price/Performance of time

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

>  This from the guy who brought core memory to a LUG show-and-tell.
>You always end up topping all the "I remember when" conversations.  No
>fair starting them, too.  ;-)

Sorry Ben, I really don't mean it to be a contest.  I just do it every
once in a while to put some reality back into what has become a very
surreal industry.

I know there are guys on the list who can top my "$128,000.00 purchase
of 64 Kilobytes of core in 1978" story.  Come to think about it, even I
can top it. :-)

By the way, I am going to put in a plug for Bill McKeeman's talk
tomorrow night up at Dartmouth (announced earlier to this list).  Anyone
who can make a compiler out of MATLAB is definitely someone we should
drink a beer with.

But if you plan on going, RSVP to Bill McGonigle (address below) and not
me.

md
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                              From: 
Bill McGonigle
<bill at bfccomputing.com>
                          Reply-To: 
gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
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                           Subject: 
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] A
Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB
- DLSLUG       Monthly Meeting -
2008-10-02
                              Date: 
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:21:31 -0400


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               Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
                        http://dlslug.org/
               a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:

                  Thursday, October 2nd, 7-9PM
at:              Dartmouth College, Carson L02

                  All are welcome, free of charge.

                              Agenda

7:00  Sign-in, networking

7:15  Introductory remarks

7:20  A Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB
         presented by Bill McKeeman

       Bill McKeeman will give a talk about an ordinary compiler (lex,
       parse, tree, gen, emit, asm) designed for teaching the
       principles of compiler writing. There are a few surprises, such
       as load-and-go, integrated bottom-up and/or top-down parsing, a
       LaTeX based pretty printer, an LR(1) parse table generator, an
       Intel x86 emulator for debugging, and the like, all in MATLAB.
       He will survey the 15meg or so free download, give demos, tell
       war stories, and answer questions. And yes, it does run under
       Intel based 32-bit Linux (and Apple and WIN).

       Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and download
       materials from:
         http://tinyurl.com/matlab-teaching-compiler
         http://dlslug.org/downloads/meetings/2008/10/cxcom.zip

       Bill has taught compiler writing at Stanford, University of
       California at Santa Cruz, Wang Institute, Harvard and Dartmouth.
       He has written more than 100 compilers, some for money,
       including the current MATLAB JIT. His website is at
       http://cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman .

8:50  Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make
         announcements or ask a linux/oss question of the group.

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