Re: [LinuxBIOS] do_ram_command

[Corey Osgood]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:34:51PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> > No. The binary and is kinda weird, if you have, say, 11100011 and
> > 01010101, the binary and will give an answer of which bits are the
> > same between the two,
>
> Not quite, that's XOR+NOT, exclusive or with inversion.
>
> The truth table for AND is:
> a b y
> 0 0 0
> 0 1 0
> 1 0 0
> 1 1 1
>
> The result is 1 only when both input bits are 1. The result is 0
> otherwise.
> > so 01000001.
>
> This is correct however.
>
> 11100011
> & 01010101
>
> 01000001
>
> (use a fixed width font)
>
> //Peter

Thanks, that was a much better explanation than mine.

-Corey