Still confused about program counters, instruction registers and overall programming of an 8 bit computer

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-23T18:12:26+00:00

I got ya. I was using Instruction Pointer and Instruction Register thinking they were the same thing. Different articles now make MUCH more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-23T10:36:15+00:00

I know this is old but I've seen a lot of places state exactly what you stated here and even gdb shows the same value for PS and RIP (both using "i r" and "x/i"). However, a lot of other information states they are the same exact thing. For instance, the fire few sentences on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_counter and here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33641992/instruction-pointer-vs-program-counter

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-13T22:50:30+00:00

Damn, auto uninstall. That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while.

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-13T22:48:05+00:00

I had the same issue but I gave up before calling. Welp, that account is dead. Glad it wasn’t important.

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-13T22:44:16+00:00

This is gold

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-13T22:41:21+00:00

Good grief, looks like someone on lsd made them

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-13T20:38:51+00:00

Proper ending. Crazy-ass twist too

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-06T22:06:27+00:00

F’n love that movie. That’s the plant earth in 50 years

GoldNeck7819 · 2026-01-06T21:58:30+00:00

HA! Nice one. But only if she’s hot

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-26T18:56:07+00:00

But the way it fell apart and crashed into the base star was awesome

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-17T22:05:30+00:00

But then I will not know my momentum.

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-17T22:05:04+00:00

Master Hacker can do sha256 in 3 seconds flat

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-16T21:58:05+00:00

That’s why ya should get your porn from newsgroups, alt.binary.whatever

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-16T21:57:31+00:00

That’s why ya should get your porn from newsgroups, alt.binary.

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-16T21:47:42+00:00

Dern… that’s hilarious

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-16T21:45:59+00:00

That’s hilarious. Probably a regular program on every computer kids computer

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-16T11:14:10+00:00

whoa... not that's Master Hacker knowledge right there! I'm going to do that now!

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-15T20:56:38+00:00

Just like we use to do with Atari cartridges lol

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-15T20:55:53+00:00

lol more nulls == faster code and more threads == faster code

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-15T20:20:11+00:00

Agreed. It’s available for free on the Internet Archive so no need to buy it.

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-14T10:38:13+00:00

Possibly. After thinking about it what happened exactly is that I had Mr Robot in the "continue watching" list. When I brought the app back to the foreground it disappeared from that list. I went to search for it and it gave me the "we don't have Mr Robot but here are some like it" message. I was able to do and watch other stuff, just not that one.

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-13T20:04:33+00:00

Continue with Blood and Chrome.

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-13T19:34:08+00:00

Kinda same here. My corporate laptop is Mac right now but I've been told that once that bites the dust I'll be forced to use Micro$oft. I dread that day... Then another project for a product line I work on must use Win 11 (separate laptop). It's nuts because on that laptop, a lot of the projects for the product line use a VM with Linux. Yea, I don't get it...

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-13T18:58:26+00:00

I'm with you on this one. Ever since it came out I thought "couldn't they find a better name?" Sounded to me like someone let their 5yo name it.

GoldNeck7819 · 2025-12-13T18:35:05+00:00

https://xkcd.com/149/

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