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This page is linking to a full copy of the book, copy wish i think is ilegal to distribute in most countries, what's wikipedia's policy about this ?
I guess this is technically legal, but probably not what Wikipedia should be encouraging. DJ Clayworth 17:27, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
A frontleaf of the book states that it comes from "count zero interrupt", an interrupt that triggers the decrementing of the counter to zero. Whoever wrote here that the counter reaches zero thus exiting the loop must not have read that. The text of this article should be changed OR deleted, because what's written is backward: Instead of a zero count terminating a loop, a loop termination that sets the count to zero is what's intended by the novel's author. 198.49.180.40 00:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I've updated that section of the article to say that Gibson apparently invented the term. -- Quuxplusone ( talk) 08:22, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
This discussion explained a lot to me. I'm a programmer from way back, and have worked on real time systems at the processor instruction and interrupt level. Gibson's explanation doesn't make much sense. I suspect that Gibson's explanation has a sub-text of "hey guys, this is fiction -- enjoy the ride." A more reasonable real world explanation would have been an interrupt triggered when a counter decrements to zero. These are actually quite common. Ferritecore ( talk) 15:47, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
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Can some enterprising editor provide links to mainstream reviews of this novel? Barton Foley ( talk) 18:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Confusing: the 1987 Nebulas are for books from 1986. Now go read the sentence in the intro. Does it use the right wording? Maury ( talk) 20:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm about to delete some material at the end of the Bobby Newmark section because it relates not to Count Zero but to Mona Lisa Overdrive. I understand that "spoilers" are inevitable in encyclopediac content, but that applies to spoilers about the work being discussed -- I think it's unnecessary (and a little thoughtless) to include spoilers about other works as well. It's certainly appropriate to mention that Bobby appears in Overdrive, but I think that fact was accompanied by way too much detail. HMishkoff ( talk) 03:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
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This page is linking to a full copy of the book, copy wish i think is ilegal to distribute in most countries, what's wikipedia's policy about this ?
I guess this is technically legal, but probably not what Wikipedia should be encouraging. DJ Clayworth 17:27, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
A frontleaf of the book states that it comes from "count zero interrupt", an interrupt that triggers the decrementing of the counter to zero. Whoever wrote here that the counter reaches zero thus exiting the loop must not have read that. The text of this article should be changed OR deleted, because what's written is backward: Instead of a zero count terminating a loop, a loop termination that sets the count to zero is what's intended by the novel's author. 198.49.180.40 00:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I've updated that section of the article to say that Gibson apparently invented the term. -- Quuxplusone ( talk) 08:22, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
This discussion explained a lot to me. I'm a programmer from way back, and have worked on real time systems at the processor instruction and interrupt level. Gibson's explanation doesn't make much sense. I suspect that Gibson's explanation has a sub-text of "hey guys, this is fiction -- enjoy the ride." A more reasonable real world explanation would have been an interrupt triggered when a counter decrements to zero. These are actually quite common. Ferritecore ( talk) 15:47, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 21:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Can some enterprising editor provide links to mainstream reviews of this novel? Barton Foley ( talk) 18:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Confusing: the 1987 Nebulas are for books from 1986. Now go read the sentence in the intro. Does it use the right wording? Maury ( talk) 20:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm about to delete some material at the end of the Bobby Newmark section because it relates not to Count Zero but to Mona Lisa Overdrive. I understand that "spoilers" are inevitable in encyclopediac content, but that applies to spoilers about the work being discussed -- I think it's unnecessary (and a little thoughtless) to include spoilers about other works as well. It's certainly appropriate to mention that Bobby appears in Overdrive, but I think that fact was accompanied by way too much detail. HMishkoff ( talk) 03:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
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