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06-23-2013

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What would Johnny do?

This year is the 110th birthyear of John von Neumann (born "Neumann Janos"). Interestingly, despite his achievements, both in number and in profoundness, he is hardly known among the general public. He played a fundamental role however in the development of the computer, being the first to understand that a computer program is a special type of data and that therefore a program fits as much in memory as does the data it works on. This is where the name "Von Neumann architecture" is from. This idea lead him to design a computer and he subsequently set out to build one. It was used in ballistics calculations and weather predictions.
He possessed a blazingly fast mind and a fearsome intellectual prowess:

He designed a self-reproducing program and is therefore considered to be the theoretical father of computer virology.
He is the co-inventor of Monte Carlo simulation methods and developed the field of cellular automata.
Among others he understood that having a faulty component in a machine, does not necessarily make it less accurate. This lead him to develop a random number generator by debiasing the output stream using an algorithm that he invented.
Then there are his many contributions he made to the fields of mathematics (both pure and applied), quantum machanics, nuclear physics and geometry, among others.

The fields most of us work in have an inherent level of problem solving that is required. Whenever I encounter a problem which even after a day seems intractable, I try to step back and think and wonder what he would have done. When faced with the same problem, no doubt a solution would have come to his mind which would have been both instantaneous and structural.

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kcemu

KCEMU(1x)																 KCEMU(1x)

NAME

       kcemu - The KC 85/4 Emulator

SYNOPSIS

       kcemu [-123478sthdlvLW]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the kcemu command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have a manual page.

       kcemu emulates various versions of the KC85 homecomputer series which was quite popular in the former east germany.  It already runs  quite
       some original programs and even boots an special old CP/M version.

OPTIONS

       -1     Emulate Z9001 / KC 85/1 computer.

       -2     Emulate HC-900 / KC 85/2 computer.

       -3     Emulate KC 85/3 computer.

       -4     Emulate KC 85/4 computer.

       -7     Emulate KC 87 computer (KC 85/1 with color expansion).

       -8     Emulate LC 80 computer.

       -s --scale
	      Scale display (only values 1 and 2 allowed).

       -t --tape
	      Attach tape on startup.

       -h --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -d --datadir
	      Set data directory (for ROM images).

       -l --localedir
	      Set locale directory.

       -v --version
	      Show KCemu version and configuration.

       -L --license
	      Show license.

       -W --warranty
	      Show warranty.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Torsten Paul <Torsten.Paul@gmx.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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