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Jean-Charles Pomerol
Microprocessor 5
Software and Hardware Aspects of Development, Debugging and Testing – The Microcomputer
Philippe Darche
First published 2020 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Quotation
Every advantage has its disadvantages and vice versa.
Shadokian philosophy1
1 1 The Shadoks are the main characters from an experimental cartoon produced by the Research Office of the Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF). The twominute-long episodes of this daily cult series were broadcast on ORTF’s first channel (the only one at the time!) beginning in 1968. The birds were drawn simply and quickly using an experimental device called an animograph.The Shadoks are ridiculous, stupid and mean. Their intellectual capacities are completely unusual. For example, they are known for bouncing up and down, but it is not clear why! Their vocabulary consists of four words: GA, BU, ZO and MEU, which are also the four digits in their number system (base 4) and
