Technical Information

• General Information
  • U.S. and Imperial Weights and Measures
  • Mathematical
  • Meteorological and Geographical
• Programming, C and C++ libraries
  • The things you can do with strings
  • All about <iostream> and <fstream>
  • All about numbers and the mathematical library <cmath>
• Computers
  • Intel Processor (Pentium, etc.) Reference Manuals
  • (Quite old now) Comparisons between different PC CPUs
• Programming Languages
  • BCPL reference manual (1978)
  • Programming in assembly language (intel 32 bit) under unix
• Hardware Things
  • 74-series integrated circuit data sheets.
  • RS232 (serial line) pin connections
• Character codes
  • Five bit: Baudot, CCITT-1, CCITT-2, Murray
  • Six bit: ICL sixbit, DEC sixbit, DEC Squoze
  • Seven bit: ASCII, BS-4730, EBCDIC, Paper tape,
  • Eight bit: ISO-8859, Paper tape, CP1252, Windows codes
  • Twelve bit: Punched card codes
  • Four byte (but only 21 bits): Unicode
  • Named: HTML's Ampersand character codes (&...;)
• Colour Codes
  • Samples of each of the named colours understood by HTML (and X11)
• Official (RFC) specifications:
  • Special Internet Numbers (ports, IP, etc) (96K, text)
  • Specification of URLs (52K, text), and URIs (58K, text)
  • Specification of HTML 2.0 (148K, text)
  • Specification of HTML 3.2 (123K, html)
  • Specification of Cybercash Credit-card protocol 0.8 (114K, text)
  • Specification of HTTP 1.1 (353K, html), and 1.0 (138K, text)
  • Specification of SMTP (122K, text), and sample SMTP session (2K, text)
  • Specification of POP2 (47K, html)
  • Specification of FTP (148K, text)
  • List of all RFCs, in reverse numerical order (273K, text)