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Paul Sutton wrote:
LOL I know. Just don't run it on a very early Pentium, just think what would happen if the rocket calculations required some floating point division. [1]-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote:Paul Sutton wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tom wrote:With the mention of the the DCLUG meeting on the 7th that has to finish before the fireworks I hope you don't mind me mentioning there's a North Devon Rocket Club meet on 15th near Barnstaple: http://www.northdevonrocketclub.co.uk/ Not really computing but sort a geeky... Tom te tom te tomDo they have any need for a program that can calculate what happens when you use x amount of fuel, taking in to account rocket weight etc, it sounds the sort of program that a linux user would write to help them if they were in to model rockets etc. Of course it would run on linux and be free software :) PaulNot free as in freedom if it could only run on Linux ;-) What about *BSD, MacOSX, Windows, OS/2, hey, even CPM/86. RobWell what I was refering to was that it would be able to run on linux not like a lot of programs that are windows only. Paul
Yikes! Rob [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html