VCF questions

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>>> I'll be at VCFE this year

You mean next year.  :) 

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Sridhar Ayengar
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:26 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: VCF questions

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