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09:44:53 <CIA-98> retro: 03crc <crc@questor> * rcrc@questor-20120408164428-s4tfjfyjk597zbqt 10rx/www/index.html: fix a misspelling on the index page
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11:14:29 <erider> hi all 
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20:13:07 <jyfl987> crc: why nagro vm use big endian?
20:47:48 <crc> jyfl987: it's not, the standard dictates little endian
20:48:24 <crc> some implementations can handle big endian, but this is considered non-standard
20:49:02 <jyfl987> On disk, images are stored in little endian format, but the VM may convert them to big endian internally.
20:50:46 * crc thinks the oly vm implementations actually using big endian are common lisp and java
20:51:13 <crc> once loaded, it doesn't matter much
20:51:14 <jyfl987> ok then i think the android version is so funny
20:51:44 <jyfl987> i checked the code, and makes me amazing for its short code
20:51:54 <crc> the android version is mostly the same as the html5/javascript version
20:51:59 <jyfl987> yes
20:53:27 <jyfl987> why dont you make a real android version? i noticed that the in/out cmd makes easily to communite with outer devices(or virtual devices)
20:55:12 <crc> time is the main reason. it's a lot less effort to maintain the current version than to learn the varient of java used for android, then test and implement the vm from scratch
20:56:48 <jyfl987> ok, if i someday learnt android java, i will implement that one for you
20:58:25 <jyfl987> crc: there's another question, what do you want retro to be used for?
20:58:58 <crc> I use it for building tools I use on a daily basis
21:00:02 <crc> mostly small things for work, occasionally as an aid in solving logic puzzles
21:00:15 <crc> small games for my kids
21:00:43 <jyfl987> have someone considered to use forth/forth-like language as an glue language?
21:02:32 <jyfl987> for example, consider apache/nginx  as a virtual machine, it accept http request which will be treate as a in port
21:02:48 <crc> minotaur explored forth as a glue language: http://equi4.com/minotaur/minotaur.html
21:02:52 <jyfl987> and when you want to response, treate that as put data to out port
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