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That's Ok - I never read your posts. 
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Would explain why you didn't get the CCC today then.
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I have a head full of cotton wool today, I didn't even get close!
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OriginalGriff wrote: cotton wool
Hopefully, your ovine friends won't find out about that comment.
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All jokes just go round and round, before eventually falling flat.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Mercator my words, orbit your tongue, but no one will give you any latitude on the quality of these thoughts. Not that IMAPI to say that about your posts, but the continent left me no choice.
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This one is getting repeated at the morning stand-up! Brilliant - hope it doesn't fall flat.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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That explains why some people are nervous in ball room dance.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: ball room dance.
I thought that's a private area in a brothel used for lap-dances.
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If one pulls over to the side of the road to ball their eyes out, is it becuz they needed a shoulder to cry on?
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
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ball? bawl.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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BALL!!! We've eyeballs.... 
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
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Yes, but what you wrote does not mean what you think it does.
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But it'll still all end in tears.
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Indeed, with a degree in English, I purposed it just as written. So, ROLL with it! haha 
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
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MacSpudster wrote: with a degree in EnglishAmerican
FTFY 
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So, you have a degree in English and came to study literature on Codeproject?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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MacSpudster wrote: pulls over to the side of the road to ball
Classic.
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I always wanted to ask such a *smart* question, especially right here. I will take care of the codez myself, but I need an idea, which file system to use once I get this working.
I'm building my own IDE/ATA port. The hardware part is almost too easy: A Intel 8255 parallel I/O port provides 24 I/O lines, enough for the ATA interface. Let's keep everything in CMOS, so it's going to be the 82C55. Hooking this up to the processor's bus is nothing special. It will get one of my chip selects and a 16 byte address space for memory mapped I/O.
So far, so good.
Now I have downloaded the ATA specifications. Bla, bla, bla, data registers, bla, bla, bla, status register, bla, bla, bla, command register...., bla, bla, bla, cylinders, heads, sectors, bla, bla, bla, or better use LBA mode...
It all comes down to setting up the 8255 to read or write 512 byte sectors from or to the disks, a 16 bit word at a time. Does not sound so hard. Let's add in some status and error checking.
Now comes the really tough part: Up to here I can identify the connected drives, read sectors and write sectors. I need a file system. This simple ATA interface can support drives up to 128 GB. FAT16 or FAT32 would not be sufficient and I would not really enjoy implementing something as FAT as NTFS (pun intended) on a 8 bit computer.
Any ideas for a lightweight alternative?
Edit: FAT32 may work, but then I would have to partition the drives into up to four partitions of max. 32 GB each.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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FAT32 supports bigger than 32GB - unless you listen to Microsoft!
I have several 128GB FAT32 single partition SD cards, simply because they are accessible by both Windows and Android. FAT32 128GB - Google Search[^]
Individual files on a FAT32 drive can’t be over 4 GB in size—that’s the maximum. A FAT32 partition must also be less than 8 TB
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That would probably more than what I would ever need. Let's hope that FAT32 does not demand more than a 8 bit processor has to offer.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's going to be down to your choice of processor, and your coding abilities! 
What processor are you using? I'd have thought a eight bit was a bit too much of a PITA given the normal address space is so limited.
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