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It served our purposes at the time; after all it made Mr. Object (one of my coworkers) happy  .
The fact that we're still using VS2008 to maintain these products is a reflection on how engineering management here is hardware-centric and it makes them lose their sphincter control when we mention changing tools.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm sure wored/works for you.
My code won't compile with anything less than GCC within the last 7 years or so, or VS2022.
It took microsoft that long to get their crap together.
Is it really that hard to make stdint.h?
And fix their template syntax madness?
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We build 32 bit executables and dlls in VS2022 from C++ source. We still have to support 32 bit applications.
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Yeah, for some reason when I was looking through installed targeting packs I didn't see x86 for some reason. It's there. I just missed it the first time.
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You can enable Address Sanitizer on Visual Studio to find memory issues such as corruptions or overruns.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It doesn't reproduce on the PC, at least 64-bit. I haven't tried 32 because trying to get 32-bit executables built on a windows machine these days I think requires a VM?
VS 2022 allows building for ARM, ARM64, x86, and x64. I don't remember if all compilers are installed by default, but they definitely may be installed from the installer.
Your confusion may arise because VS 2022, unlike the earlier editions, is a 64-bit application.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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so after months of only getting the daily insider on occasion(once every other week or so). for the past week I have gotten it daily. I do enjoy it alot. interestingly. Not today though?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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It's a holiday weekend in the US. Is Kent in the US?
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The holiday is on Monday though.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Agreed, but from the looks of my office it appears it started today.
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This should be an amusing thread. How have computers changed during your life?
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In 1985, I purchased a $35 USD accelerator for my Zenith Z-100, which bumped the processor speed from 4.67 MHz to 7.5 MHz. It was an amazing change to the PC!!! [I originally put "Hz", which was pointed out as incorrect.]
That same year it cost $150 to bump that PC from 384 KB RAM up to 1 MB. After I got the PC back, only 1 software package (I think it was Turbo Pascal) could use more than 640 KB.
In 1989 I installed a 40 MB HD in our office server, quadrupling the storage space. We were excited, as the price had just dropped to $750 USD. Previously that same HD had cost nearly $1,500.
In 1999 I installed a new HD (can't remember the size offhand), and I did the math. Going by the per-MB cost, at 1989 prices the new HD would have cost $750,000. And at 1999 prices, the 40 MB HD would have cost about $0.02.
In 2009 I did the same thing -- at 1989 prices, the 2009 HD would have cost $45,000,000 ... and Excel didn't have enough precision to calculate the 2009 price of a 40 MB HD ...
modified 30-Aug-24 13:12pm.
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We gotta have somewhere to put all the cat videos.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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First computer experience 1965. Had to wind it up every night. 
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I started that same year. We had to "reboot" first thing every morning, although in those days the term was "feed the master" (as in Master Program).
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"Cold start"?
On core storage machines, with proper programming, you could just hit the start button.
Why did I read this thread, I already felt old.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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My first experience was in 1970, when I got access to the Board of Education's IBM 1130 and wrote some Fortran programs.
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Greg Utas wrote: I got access to the Board of Education's IBM 1130 and wrote some Fortran programs.
To adjust a few test scores?  
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I remember getting a new 40MB harddrive for an AS/400 we had and helping lug that thing into the server room. It was freaking huge. Weighed at least 200lbs
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I started as a consultant to the US Air Force. I recall a classified disk pack (DEC/VAX, I think) being "de-classified". The USAF was diligent about destroying anything that might even remotely contain classified information.
Two airmen carried the pack out onto the tarmac and literally pounded it flat with 12 lb sledgehammers. The remains were thrown in an incinerator.
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This reminds me of something I read on usenet, long ago. The thread was about how to effectively decommision hard drives. One poster related how he had attended some event, and casual conversation of professionals turned to this subject. There were various solutions, including shotguns, large magnets and power saws. One of the participants said something like "I'm with the NSA, and we put our old drives in the N-Test holes, before detonation." They all laughed. Then they realized the NSA guy was serious.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Worked at a small PC build/sell shop. Around 90/91, we ordered a 1000MB (didn't know it was called Gigabyte) hard drive for a local hospital.
It was the older bigger size took two drive bays (height) in the PC.
It was $1 per / MB so $1000 and that was cheap.
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I had forgotten all all about AS/400
And then you had to comment.
The last AIX and Pains systems I worked on was an AS/400 with a failing hard drive.
My job was to export the database.
into Access.
I have LASTING EMOTIONAL DAMAGE from that experience.
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I feel your pain. I was writing SAS code against a data dump from the 400 in an IBM OS2 PC that was freakin awesome. But the Data structure was icky
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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How many hard drives did you have on that AS/400?
I had 5 drives on the one I used, the disk storage was RAIDed. When we had to replace the supposedly failing drives (IBM sent me a note saying that the drives weren’t up to their standard of 1 million hours MTBF so they were going to replace them), all that the service engineer (SE) did was to shut down one drive at a time, remove that drive, put in the new drive, power it up, and wait 20 minutes for data to be re-created on the new disk from the RAID information from the other disks.
Not knowing how trivial the process was, I had scheduled the SE to come in at 12 midnight on a Sunday which I figured was when the computing load would be the lowest. I could have saved myself the trouble of staying up that night and could have scheduled the maintenance for Monday morning 10 AM!
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I honestly don't remember the hardware specifics at this point. That was over 20 years ago.
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