X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from web38911.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.125.117] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.10) with SMTP id 2177405 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:49:39 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.191.125.117; envelope-from=roundrocktom@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 40939 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Jul 2007 15:49:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Zfxm8a/dJNJi70vx0/P28ME2y0m3y7WgKJqiFNiiTFFOrax0Ky73fQJGCt51ySCy/QwSPpYsmPlqvaR0pT2MQNmYUtxciQ8k9D8YsBg7yi1fwRZQ51vhGVJ75TnsYNB9SWgiqBcNyvbMBH60o+eq1s3nxj4Q8WabQ8yJcvBQkBs=; X-YMail-OSG: E6hYJOgVM1lpSkMwC6hq2Ma9meVDHGAQZqfvxUxakgtPfJL1G8yNVamMSl3JHid5N_Hn4DUfMALtn.BrkWMQM8ukbjAMizvNB5RM6w5oVXqgcf9uYM.LQsjusA-- Received: from [70.113.78.152] by web38911.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:49:00 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: thomas walter Subject: Re: EM2 NOP flashing w/RPM and a couple of other questions To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1569592736-1184428140=:40246" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <67000.40246.qm@web38911.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1569592736-1184428140=:40246 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Tracy will have the final say, as he wrote the code, but most likely: NOP = No Operation. or Non Operational. Uh for the life of me I can not recall when I started using that notation, but if you flag part of a schematic, or assembly code, with NOP it is pretty universal comment among geeks (EE's). At least it isn't flashing "Fubar". :) Once I "inherited" some assembly code on a project which had never been commented (debug/maintenance nightmare). Thankfully the previous engineer had a hard copy with his hand written Chinese notation along side the code. Excited as I started to recognize a pattern of hand written characters by the sections of code I couldn't figure out. Thankfully another engineer explained what "fubar" looked like in Chinese. Tom --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. --0-1569592736-1184428140=:40246 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Tracy will have the final say, as he wrote the code, but most likely:
 
NOP = No Operation.  or Non Operational.   Uh for the life of me I can not recall when I started using that notation, but if you flag part of a  schematic, or assembly code, with NOP it is pretty universal comment among geeks (EE's).
 
At least it isn't flashing "Fubar". :)   Once I "inherited" some assembly code on a project which had never been commented (debug/maintenance nightmare). Thankfully the previous engineer had a hard copy with his hand written Chinese notation along side the code. Excited as I started to recognize a pattern of hand written characters by the sections of code I couldn't figure out. Thankfully another engineer  explained what "fubar" looked like in Chinese.
 
Tom

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