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    Binary Square Root

    u want it in assembler, I Google-searched "successive approximation root assembler" and found http://www.finesse.demon.co.uk/steven/sqrt.html which even had the code for several different ASM routines, varying in method and runtime. Howard
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    FORTRAN 77 Microsimulation at traffic signals

    Matlab Simulink, GPSS, or whatever for simulation - are they really that expensive when you consider that you begin with a system that already understands basic simulation concepts, probably has a built-in graphic display to show the simulation while it is running, and allowa you to define...
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    Hardware Interfacing thru C..

    Since you mention "an LED," and a parallel port, I assume you're tinkering with physical hardware. As of NT4 and 98SE, Windows added a Virtual Device Manager layer in the executive between programs and hardware. It's much more difficult to bit-bang to physical hardware than before. I/O...
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    Visual Basic

    If you know pointers in C, you DON'T know pointers in VB. Bluntly, it's difficult to use pointers in VB, and I've had a lot of problems with memory leaks trying to use pointers and SET POINTERNAME=NEW(OBJECT) / SET POINTERNAME=NOTHING. For linked lists and insertion sorts, VB is OK, but don't...

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