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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by onetimertwo on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:24PM (#30971132)
That reference would fit the zphd label. But it's _very unlikely_ that Zaphod Beeblebrox himself shows his head(s) here.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by qzw on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:30PM (#30971207)
Would you go so far as to say the improbability is infinite?
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by justinjlynn on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:34PM (#30971246)
You'd need a very hot cup of tea to calculate just how infinitely improbable.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by salawat on Saturday April 09, 2022 @06:12PM (#30972627)
Or a bistro waiter...
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by egberts1 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:52AM (#30975438)
in form of a cow, offering herself as a menu
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by thwarted on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:50PM (#30971922)
And "Thumb" mode. A solid set of HHGTTG references in this.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Pico: What is this code doing in its boot RO... by sixstringtheory on Saturday April 09, 2022 @06:14PM (#30972642)
Just in case anyone doesn’t know, Thumb* is a subset of the ARM microarchitecture designed to use 16 bit instructions.

A very pleasing coincidence!

* https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0210/c/Introducti...

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