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From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to ... SC/MP
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:48:50 GMT
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden

In article <kurz.1.47.0@ipa.fhg.de> kurz.1@ipa.fhg.de (Hermann Kurz) writes:
>In article <7123@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> mark-r@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk 
>(Mark Robinson (JO PhD)) writes:
>
>>All this talk of old micros has reminded me..
>
>>Three questions, 5 points each, here's your starter for 10...
>
>>1. What was the proper numeric title of the SC/MP (Single
>>Chip / Microprocessor - often called SCaMP, SCaMPy, SCruMPy, etc).
>>Was it the 1802?
>
>No, if memory serves me well it was the INS 8060

Yes, the INS 8060 was the SC/MP II. There was also a SC/MP I which was
made in PMOS technology, if I'm not misinformed. I don't know anything
about that beast, though.

1802 is a totally different beast.

>>2. Why was it so popular in hobbyist SBC kits and evaluation
>>boards in the mid-late 70's, but then died such an abrupt death?
>
>It was extremely cheap but also extremely limited

And simple to program, as long as one didn't try to do anything
complicated (like write recursive subroutines). 

I think the reason it dissapeared from the hobbyist market was that it
was superceded by superior technology.

It is rather obvious from the 8060's architecture and instruction set
that it was designed as a microcontroller, not as the CPU of a home
computer (no stack, for example). By the early 80's, there were
processors, such as the 6502, that were much more powerful _and_
appreciably cheaper. (Of course, "powerful" is a realtive concept; you
can argue that the 8060 was more powerful than the 6502 as a
microcontroller. But most computer hobbyists want to build
general-purpose computers, not controllers).

>>3. Any details about architecture/instruction set/idiosyncracies
>>would be interesting.

One feature of its architecture was that two or three pins on the
package were connected directly to bits in a processor register. That
made it extremely simple to do simple serial I/O, for example.


BTW, does anybody know if there are still SC/MP's for sale, or have
they disappeared completely? 

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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:35:57 GMT
Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)

In article <1993Jan4.020649.4544@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <STEVEV.93Jan3130839@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
>>
>>Sounds like you need to put in some flight time on a real
>>computer.  DOS does support I/O redirection, but CTTY is not what
>>does it (CTTY supposedly lets you change the console device,
>>although hardly anyone ever uses it).  MS-DOS does not support
>
>Programs like LAPLINK use CTTY.  The remote user types a DOS MODE command to
>set the baud rate, and then the CTTY command to set a comm port to be the
>input source for the command processor, etc.  Then LAPLINK sends the commands
>out and proceeds to install itself.  From then onward, it is running in both
>machines sending/receiving from either end.

Brooklyn Bridge does it by have a slave and a master mode.  You run it
directly on one machine to have it become a slave, and you boot the
other side with a special device entered in config.sys.  When it boots
up, the device configures the serial port for 115,000 baud, and then goes
out over the serial line and seeks out the devices on the other side.  It
then allocates appropriate device letters.

>>The original MS-DOS COMMAND.COM does not provide command history
>>(it does not store previously entered commands for later recall).
>>Of course, there are a lot of TSRs that attempt to provide it.
>
>DR-DOS can do this as a standard option if enabled.  BTW, DR-DOS is totally
>compatible and is a replacement system for all *documented* features.

Except for certain nasty things that Microsoft has done with Windows 3.x.

-- 

Rick Kelly    rmkhome!rmk@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP
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From: monnier+@cs.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier)
Subject: Re: VCS processor (was Re: Game machine processors)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:55:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.204641.24922@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <C09Hq0.Mw@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>In article <8505@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>>>  > In <1993Jan2.180042.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> jbridson@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>>>  > >I forget the name of the VCS's CPU, but I do remember it was 6-bit,
>>>  > >with 12-bit address.
>>
>>I don't know of any 6-bit micros, but sounds like it *could* be a PDP-8
>>clone chip (waits for cjl to put his oar in). That and the 4004 or TMS-1000
>>are the only non-8-, non-16- bit chips I can think of.
>
>There must have been another, since I once retrieved a 12-bit-oriented memory
>board *not* for a PDP-8 micro that had 1702A and other chips on it for a
>12-bit memory buss.  Never saw the CPU other than to know it was expressed
>in HEX not OCTAL.
>
>cjl

There is at least the 'Saturn' processor used in HPs (71, 28, 48 and
maybe some others). It's a 4bit processor with 20bits addresslines
(512K addressable). Some Sharp pocket computers (the 1211 I believe)
also had a 4bit processor, but I don't know it's name ! (sorry :-)

	Stefan
From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What happened to "smart buildings"? and three tangents
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:21:09 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

In article <0fHmIpe00Vp5M6561Y@andrew.cmu.edu> jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro) writes:
>matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy) writes:
>> I understand that in many European countries you still have
>> to get telcom's permission to hook up answering machines!
>
>I've heard that in some European countries you still have to get the
>electric company's permission to leave appliances plugged in for
>extended periods of time.  Is this true?
>
>ObUL: In parts of Germany, government vans armed with RF detectors roam
>the streets sweeping for unregistered home electronics...

   Even further tangental....

   Would anyone from the UK care to expound on "TV licensing"?

   I saw some pubic service announcements and newspaper warnings
   about this on a trip recently.  I'm sure the truth is much more
   bizarre than anything I could make up.  
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From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
Subject: Re: Mass Bus
Reply-To: hdavies@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:26:02 GMT

In article 3232007@zl2tnm.gen.nz, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:

[bits deleted]

>
>Sigh.  Those books were really useful, and DEC used to give 'em away.
>

SIGH. Those books were really useful, and I threw all mine (about 9 shelf feet worth of PDP11 and associated handbooks) away about 2 years ago, 'cos I really needed the room. Why didn't I put them in the loft (US: attic) with all the other junk?

>
>--
>Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
>Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
>Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052



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From: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Number of numbers (Was Re: PI)
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:44:05 GMT
Reply-To: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: Boston University

In article <uzun.725840314@crash.cts.com> uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>
>Did you print out the digits as well?  that takes considerable time
>in this benchmark.
>
>-Roger


	Oh, you HAVE to print out the numbers so you
can check the output when it's done...


			keith
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Number of instructions in microprocessors
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:50:16 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne) writes:
> ARM (RISC):		<30
> 6502 (RISC?):		55
> 8086 (non-RISC):	90+
> Alpha (RISC):		150 (approx)
> VAX (non-RISC):		>400

If anyone is thinking "what's a RISC", the first answer is that it has
sweet F.A. to do with how many instructions it has...


I count 331 instructions on the VAX, +/- 5 or so.  There are a few counted
twice because there are two mnemonics for the same instruction (CLRH & 
CLRO for example -- both zero 128 bits, and are the same opcode; oddly
enough MOVH & MOVO are different; presumably MOVH checks for illegal data
whereas MOVO doesn't).

But what's an instruction?  The 6502 only has 55 instructions if you 
consider LDA, STA, LDX, STX, LDY, STY, TXA, TAX, TYA, TAY etc and all
their addressing modes as separate instructions.  All of the above are
different cases of the MOVB instruction on the VAX.  On a pdp11, 68k, 
any RISC etc, the different cases, are encoded in the same instruction
word. 

I could produce an assembler which had a structure like:

	"New" assembler	   Standard 6502 assembler
	MOV A,X		-> TAX
	MOV #1, A	-> LDA #1
	BR CC, target	-> BCC target
	BR EQ, target	-> BEQ target
	BR A, target	-> JMP target
	PUSH A		-> PHA
	PUSH P		-> PHP
	INC X		-> INX
	INC address	-> INC address

Thus, BR would cover JMP and the Bcc instructions, PUSH and POP would
cover PHA, PHP, PLA & PLP.  MOV would cover a multitude of sins.  The same 
could be done for the set/clear flags, compares etc.  You could halve the
number of "instructions".

Or you could push the number to over a hundred by calling each addressing 
mode an "instruction".  After all, LDA #1 and LDA 1 are different opcodes.
I could call the first LDAI (LoaD A Immediate) and the second LDAZ (LoaD
A from Zero page).  In fact, the standard assemblers assemble LDA 1 and 
LDA 257 as different opcodes (the former is a zero page absolute reference
requiring only eight bits of operand, the latter's operand is a 16 bit
absolute reference). 


Will someone refresh my failing memory?  For the 6502 mnemonics, I get:

Move:	lda ldx ldy sta stx sty txa tya tax tay txs tsx php plp pha pla
Control:jmp beq bne bpl bmi bcc bcs bvs bvc jsr rts brk rti
Arith:	adc sbc inx iny dex dey inc
Bitwise:rol ror lsl asr and ora eor
Flags:	sei sed sec cli cld cld

That's 49.  I can't remember if the Minus, Zero and oVerflow flags had
SEf/CLf instructions.  If not, can someone remind me what the other six
mnemonics were (and/or correct my list).  It's been about six years since
I touched one of these things....

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
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From: sadamson@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (stuart.r.adamson)
Subject: Re: VCS processor (was Re: Game machine processors)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:16:57 GMT
Summary: ZX81

In article <1ic50fINNqqm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
> In article <1993Jan5.134758.15535@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

> Not quite.  The CPU was used for some video stuff as well, so it only
> ran at about 1/3 of its speed when the display was on.  To use it to its
> full power, you had to use the FAST instruction to switch off the video
> display.

Yeh remember that, as used in such games like 3D Monster Maze or Mazogs where
the screen would state "You are entering the Mists of Time". The computer
would then goto fast mode, and when it returned, you were playing the game.

Ha Ha.


Stuart Adamson
AT&T NSI Malmesbury
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: NeXTstep not running on Cyrix 486DLC (was Re: Apple IIGS...)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: USA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:14:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.192417.1371@afs.com> tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.091513.7530@news.columbia.edu>  
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>> BTW, there is also a 16-bit version of the Cyrix chip, so that boards
>> designed for 386SX can also run 486-only software.  And of course it
>> allows 387SX-type FPU's to be used.  Since this is a 16-bit system, maximum
>> RAM is 16 MBytes, and performance will be much lower, but it should still
>> be compatible in every meaningful way.
>> 
>> cjl
>
>What about a 32-bit address space? I'd like to see NeXTSTEP 486 run in 16bits.
>And I'd also like to see Congress work for free. :)
>--
>Jonathan Hendry  Anderson Financial Systems
>jon@afs.com  (Nextmail Welcome!) or hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu

You apparently don't understand the difference between SX and DX restrictions.
The 386SX is a DX with a 16-bit buss and a RAM limit of 16 megs.  While there
can be some applications where that's a problem, I doubt if I am interested
in too many applications that would matter :-).

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught)
Subject: Re: "Stringy Floppy"
Reply-To: faught@berserk.ssc.gov
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:33:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.201706.27670@EE.Stanford.EDU> siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU  
(Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
>   Among the collection of bizarre early computer artifacts is the
>"Stringy Floppy" (that was its product name) that was once marketed in
>the Northern California area.  
>
I still have one! Does anyone recalls the Motorola color development board? ( I  
think it was a 6809 ) I still have that as well! My brother had some kind of an  
operating system written for the stringy floppy that ran on the Motorola board.  
I believe this would also have run on the R.S. Color Computer. The stringy  
floppy drive itself contains a 68xx of some kind, I forget which one.

--
Ed Faught  WA9WDM  faught@berserk.ssc.gov
 Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
From: d40937@boole (Jean Yves Desbiens)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Number of instructions in microprocessors
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:18:17 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Don Stokes (don@zl2tnm.gen.nz) wrote:
: 
: Will someone refresh my failing memory?  For the 6502 mnemonics, I get:
: 
: Move:	lda ldx ldy sta stx sty txa tya tax tay txs tsx php plp pha pla
: Control:jmp beq bne bpl bmi bcc bcs bvs bvc jsr rts brk rti
: Arith:	adc sbc inx iny dex dey inc
: Bitwise:rol ror lsl asr and ora eor
: Flags:	sei sed sec cli cld cld
: 
: That's 49.  I can't remember if the Minus, Zero and oVerflow flags had
: SEf/CLf instructions.  If not, can someone remind me what the other six
: mnemonics were (and/or correct my list).  It's been about six years since

From the C64 programmers reference guide (stowed away in my historic 
books archive :-)) the MCS6510 has the following instruction set :

move       : LDA,LDX,LDY,STA,STX,STY,TAX,TAY,TSX,TXA,TXS,TYA,PHA,PLA
control    : BCC,BCS,BEQ,BMI,BNE,BPL,BVC,BVS,JMP,JSR,RTI,RTS,BRK,NOP
bitwise    : ROL,ROR,RTI,RTS,LSR,ORA,EOR,ASL,AND
arithmetic : ADC,DEC,DEX,DEY,INC,INX,INY,SBC
tests      : BIT,CMP,CPX,CPY
flag       : CLC,CLD,CLI,CLV,SEC,SED,SEI,PHP,PLP

This makes 58. I don't know how different the 6510 is from the 6502
(i don't think there is any difference in the instruction set).
--
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From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to ... SC/MP
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:06:12 GMT

Are cheap&sleazy hobby computers good for nothing but messing around with
still available?
From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Operating System Destiny
Date: 4 Jan 1993 18:50:07 -0800
Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: columbia.cs.ubc.ca

In article <1992Dec31.113216.1911@mixcom.com> Jeffrey.Thorson
<Jeffrey.Thorson@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes: 
>succ(V) = W
>succ(M) = N
>succ(S) = T
Hmm...

succ(U) = V
succ(N) = O
succ(I) = J 
succ(X) = Y

Well, I can't stick around here. Gotta write VOJY and make my money
(maybe I could sell it to Novell?) 
-- 
\    Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca>      "There is no law that vulgarity and
 \   Computer Science, Langara College     literary excellence cannot coexist."
 /\  100 W. 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada (604) 324-5205  -- A. Trevor Hodge
/  \ Co-author of ``The Schematics of Computation'', Prentice-Hall, Jan 1994
From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: "Stringy Floppy"
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:57:50 GMT

In <1993Jan9.201706.27670@EE.Stanford.EDU> Anthony E. Siegman wrote:
>    Among the collection of bizarre early computer artifacts is the
> "Stringy Floppy" (that was its product name) that was once marketed in
> the Northern California area.  

Yup, I remember these.   There was a period around 1979 when they looked
like they might be serious competition to floppy disks, then an *extremely*
crude and limited technology (capacities around 80K per disk).
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com>
Subject: Re: CLI/GUI wars
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:46:06 GMT
X-Xxdate: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:49:09 GMT
Organization: Apple

In article <19096@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy Reimer, Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca
writes:
>But, for a change of pace, why not rate some of the various GUIs and CLIs in
>use, and note which systems can use both?  Why not waste some net.bandwidth
>in a slightly different way than mere flame wars?

GS:

CLI:  other people were mentioning third party utilities so I will too.
      GNO - preemptive multitasking UNIX clone from Procyon, Inc. 
	        (check out comp.sys.apple2.gno for more info)
      APW - Apple's "Apple IIGS Programmer's Workshop".. hasn't been supported
for
	        a while.
	  Orca -- Byteworks' APW-work alike.. mostly a development environment, but
	        the shell is useful like any other CLI.
      ProSEL 16 - haven't used the shell enough to give judgement of it.
	  there are other shells not mentioned here including free ones, but GNO is
	  definitely the best.
	  
GUI:  same Apple GUI you know and (possibly) love as the Mac has.

that's one of the advantages of the GS with GNO. You're not *stuck* in the
GUI as you are on the Mac.. (that is, even without any of the aforementioned			
shells, you still have good ol' text mode.. windows aren't always necessary)
--
unknown@apple.com                         Apple II Forever
unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu   These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: what does the 'RS' in 'RS232' stand for?
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:30:29 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

In article <TSINGLE.93Jan5164125@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov> tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tim Singletary) writes:
>It's not "Radio Shack" or "Real Slow" -- what, if anything, does the
>RS (in RS232) stand for?
>
>Someone here suggests "Recommended Standard"; does anyone know the
>full story?
>
    Give 'em a prize, that's the correct answer.  
    HOWEVER it indicates antiquated useage.....

    Straight from the horse's anatomy....from
    the "NOTICE" prepended to June 1981 "EIA-232-C".

    The official name of the standard is EIA-232-C or D or whatever.
    The "RS" term did indeed mean "Recommended Standard" of
    which 232 was only one of many.  The prefix "RS" was changed to
    "EIA" in all of the EIA standards as they were re-affirmed,
    created, or re-written.  It was a change to identify the source
    of the standard and made no technical change to the standard.
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: What happened to "smart buildings"? and three tangents
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:13:57 GMT

r.evans@ic.ac.uk (Rob Evans) writes:

>In article <184887@pyramid.pyramid.com> lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) writes:
>>Would anyone from the UK care to expound on "TV licensing"?

The stupid thing about TV licenses in the UK, is that if, as a visitor who
knows nothing about this little quirk, you go to the local hire shop and
rent a TV for a year, they _don't_ sell you a license.  They don't even tell
you that you have to get one!

(Speaking from experience...)

>The technology used in TV Detector Vans can also be used to snoop on
>computer screens in much the same way. So, beware, if you have sensitive
>information on your screen, look out of the window for vans with a variety
>of aerials on the roof!

Obviously you haven't read Spy-catcher.  In Spy-Catcher, Peter Wright talks
about how MI6 put plastic panels on some vans so that they could have the
antennas _inside_.  (They then used these vans to verify that the Sovs were
listening in on the ``Watchers'' - the people who tail Sov embassy
personell.)

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read"
 -- Joshua Heller (heller2@husc.harvard.edu) on rec.humor.funny
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From: rayes@Goat.mcs.kent.edu (Mohamed Omar Rayes)
Subject: Parallel Numerical Algorithms Text Book
Organization: Kent State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:09:43 GMT

 A friend of mine who is involved in applied mathemtics problems that
require intensive computing power is looking for a good and introductry
text in parallel numerical algorithms. If you know of a text that
emphasizes pratical as opposoed to theoretical algorithms, please send
e-mail to rayes@mcs.kent.edu. Thanks in advance.

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