Re: Robert Chipman, "Theory and Problems of Transmission Lines" available for download

Hi Terry,

Terry Given wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,

[...]

> yay for Anatol and FLS. Actually, my copy of Zverev only turned up last
> week. US$135, ouch. But I have used him before, to great effect.

Mine disappeared some time ago. Someone borrowed it and didn't tell me.
But I have been able to reconstruct some of the graphs from appendixes in
other articles, and I found some of the tabulated data on the web. I'm
still missing the Gaussian stuff, but I got most of the rest.

> OTOH I got motchenbacher (pristine) for about $10, and Pease for about $15.

I've heard lots of good stuff on Pease's book - what do you think of it?

[...]

> > But I end up never having to type in a directory or filename. And the
> > system is hundreds of times faster than any gui OS - Windows or Linux!
> >
>
> fantastic. I have contemplated doing this with .html attachments, and a
> self-compiling intranet. lack of round-to-its, coupled with a distinct
> unwillingness to write code of any form, have hampered my efforts to date.

Just for fun, I did a search on "Widlar". The search uses Boyer-Moore in
optimized assembly and does a little over 100,000 files per second.
That's 10uS per file.

Here's the results. It found five references in 167,000 files in 1.6
seconds:

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Searching for "WIDLAR"

F:\ZSAVE\ENG\SPICE\KEVIN\
2C7312A0 HTM 2C731308 4,653 Widlar Current Source

H:\APPNOTES\NATSEM\
NSC06611 PDF 2C739425 123,877 Natsem AN41 Widlar 1970 Mexico

N:\THEORY\BPEASE\
2EB45504 HTM 2EB45548 4,817 Robert Widlar
2EB45508 HTM 2EB455BD 17,877=What's All This Widlar Stuff, Anyhow?

Q:\4NEWS\DOWNLDS\
314BBDF1 ZIP 314BBDF6 953,730 Bob Widlar

Searched 167,754 files in 3,040 directories

Found 5 hits in 1,593.203 ms

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This is on a 200MHz Pentium with a 5400 rpm drive. I would expect a bit
better performance with a 2GHz machine like the rest of you are running:)

[...]

> hear hear. I have been having a discussion with a company in NZ about
> code space issues - they have used most of the available 8kb "rom" (ram
> really), and a big chunk of the 128 + 128 bytes RAM. I just keep telling
> them to harden up, and write better code. real men only need 1 bit.
>
> Cheers
> Terry

It may be difficult just telling them to write better code. If you have
to tell them, they have no clue what you are talking about.

What you need to do is encourage them to waste as much ram as possible.

Then when the s**t hits the fan, you can be the high-priced hero that
bails them out of a tough spot:)

Mike Monett
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