12 Jul
2020
12 Jul
'20
1:58 p.m.
(This should probably be on COFF because I don't think this has much
to do with UNIX.)
On 11 Jul 2020 22:22 -0400, from doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy):
a loudspeaker hooked to the low-order bit of the
accumulator played
gentle white noise in the background. The noise would turn into a
shriek when the computer got into a tight loop,
How did that work? I can see how tying the low-order bit of the
accumulator to a loudspeaker would generate white noise as the
computer is doing work; but I fail to see how doing so would even
somewhat reliably generate a shrieking sound when the computer is in a
tight loop. Please, enlighten me. :-)
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