VCF questions

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Fred Cisin wrote:
>>>>>>Well, our well known friend Sallam Ismail does the main VCF
>>>>>
>>>>>Surely that's his lesser-known brother, Sellam? ;-)
>>>
>>>Actually, isn't the preferred Arabic spelling Salaam?
> 
> 
> No, those are NOT the letters that are used in the Arabic spelling.
> But that may, indeed, be the canonical anglicization, or English
> transliteration.

That is, of course, what I meant.  As my own name is a transliteration 
from Sanskrit to English.

>>Jup, that's another one. It seams to depend what
>>area they're from.
> 6+ years ago, he spelled it differently:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
> 
>>straightforward.  The simulator simply steps through the code space you
>>give it based on simulated clocking and executes the instructions as
>>would the actual CPU.

I think that was him going by a nickname, no?

> However he wants to spell it, he does a hell of a job with VCF.
> I'm unhappy about missing it again this year.
> (may all college administrators get what they deserve)

I'll be at VCFE this year, I think.  I missed it last year, but I was at 
VCFE 1.0.

Peace...  Sridhar