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IBM's mini computerslack thereof 822
I think they (IBM) ignored the low-end of the market. Instead of selling machines like a commodity item to OEM's, they tended to focus more on the end-user application. DEC and Data General...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 823
It seemed, for a long time, that to IBM the only input device was some kind of card reader and the only output device was some kind of card punch...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 824
Yay! That isn't many compared to what a PDP-10 did before VAX existed. It's exactly what I'm talking about. Sigh! It should...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 825
Anne & Lynn Wheeler there was a hack done in the mid-to-late 70s to address this performance issue w...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 826
You can purchase off-the-shelf package units that will sit on a pad on the lawn or in a built for the purpose room. Emergency...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 827
Another clbutt of things lost if not used is that of the basic concepts buttociated with designing a large system. out of an unholy mess created because the data center had been running...
Mbuttive io 828
so the os-360 genre operating systems have been vulnerable to this CKD record write problem with propagated zeros in case of power failure ... because some number...
Mbuttive io 829
note that the journal file system for aixv3 (started in the late 80s) took a database logging approach to...
Mbuttive io was: IBM's mini computerslack thereof
Thank goodness for that; otherwise there would be no bit gods. There nothing that is clbuttic about computing usage. It all depends on the needs of the users. Nobody seems to...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 831
PCs are getting there. The original interface for a hard disk was the ST506 interface, never properly standardized; just happened to be reasonably well documented by IBM. This interface...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 832
Yup. It's the only reason I haven't given up yet. But we do need more mature OS types...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 833
Go see what IBM, SGI, HP (including what is left of DEC) and others have been doing lately. Linux has...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 834
Latency is a problem no matter what the physical layer on the interface. So SCSI has command tag queues and scatter-gather capability, to minimize turnaround on the data bus. Transitioning between states on SCSI...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 835
Mike Ross (I believe it was) wrote on July 8th: Ontario Hydro nuclear plants were designed with the 1800 in...
Cost: Teletype 33 vs. IBM Selectric Terminal 2741
In the 1970s there were two major types of computer terminals available: One was the Teletype 33 (or 35) which used ASCII and ran at 10 chars-sec. It had a paper...
Cost: Teletype 33 vs. IBM Selectric Terminal 2741
As I recall there were two or three different grades of IBM Selectric terminals for various duty requirements. With Teletype you had the Model...
Teletype 33 vs. IBM Selectric Terminal 2741 838
I remember using a GTE badged 2741 type terminal in the early 1970s (late 1960s?) that had a built in magnetic cbuttette type storage. The...
Cost: Teletype 33 vs. IBM Selectric Terminal 2741
Actually, there were a bunch more: - CRT terminals, async as well as sync block-mode - dot matrix printing terminals - daisy-wheel printing terminals Most of these...
Teletype 33 vs. IBM Selectric Terminal 2741 840
The ASR (Automatic Send Receive) 33 had a paper tape reader-punch. The KSR (Keyboard Send Receive) 33 didn't. See was by far the more popular model so...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics 841
Do they give a reason? Unless it requires specialized software from them, and that only works on XP or OSX, it's likely they just don't want to train...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics 842
One story that has gone down well with all such ISPs is that this connection is funded by the employer, and that a dedicated firewall is part of the deal because of data sensitivity issues...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics 843
And a lot of others nowadays, it seems. Except that it can be less than fun when you notice that the ISP's provided things do something that OpenBSD considers...
CPU time and system load
in the pr-sm, lpar, etc ... it tends to be the ratio of instructions that involve overhead ... to...
Another Another One Bites the Dust
long ago and far away .... the dasd engineering lab (bldg 14) and dasd product test lab (bldg 15) had these "testcells" where tested stuff under development. that...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 846
Paul Okay, I had a go...no trees or dragons (I'm not Rolf Harris, don't push it! ;)...but it's a castle with...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 847
Evenbit Sorry to drag this thread into an ANSI discussion, but I'm still trying to understand this. I learned computers as...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 848
JohnnyMrNinja The MS-DOS era block-drawing characters, happy faces & such belong to IBM Codepage 437, also sometimes referenced to as "IBM Extended ASCII". Codepage 437 already contains many...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 849
Jukka Aho UNICODE is completely identical to ASCII for the first 127 character positions...which, yes, means that it's all "control codes" up to 20h (space)... But, one of the intentions with UNICODE was to...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 850
On 2005-06-16 JohnnyMrNinja said: Look, Johnny, this is all ((( ` very simple. ` ) (^ ) ) 'ANSI' has nothing...NOTHING ~-( ) to do with what 'characters' '((,,,))) are displayed...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one
Those would usually be the "Shift Out" 1 and "Shift In" 2 codes. If implemented on a terminal, they will exchange the glyphs in code positions 33...126 for another set of...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 852
Annie The previous post: "'ANSI' has nothing...NOTHING ~-( ) to do with what 'characters' '((,,,))) are displayed on the screen. ,-' ` ( , ANSI is just a way to control `-.-'`-.-'- different things that HAPPEN...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 853
I think the point in this discussion has been that, without referring to the actual standard number...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 854
Jukka Aho You'll note that I used the word "standards" (emphasis on plural here). The point I'm making here is not *which* particular character set...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 855
No, in the above I was just further emphasizing what this thread was originally about. OK, fair enough...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 857
Randall Hyde I'm not the one inventing these standards; I'm just trying to explain how they work in relation to each other. :) But if you feel someone might still be confused about it, I...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 858
You feel compelled to agree because you feel pressured to be "one of the guys" in...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 859
jmfbahciv What "touchie-feelie" interactions would those be? I never said anything about anything being "touchie-feelie...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 860
anyone Not when it's to promote Hitler and his thugs' goals. to itself Your intentions were to promote an evil which, unfortunately, was not eradicated with the...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 861
jmfbahciv me is is done' Oh, this is precious... First, you call me "touchie feelie"...when this fails to "silence the unorthodoxy", the next thing you try is to "invoke Godwin...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 862
jmfbahciv Oh, is that what you think I'm saying? Oh, no wonder you got slightly "upset"... No, sorry...exactly...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 863
I'm not slightly upset. You are threading dangerous trends. I am the one who is...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 864
jmfbahciv More contradiction in your logic: You post to defend "consensus", you claim...but then form a minority of ONE...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 865
CBFalconer Silly insults are not at all productive... But, as well EVERYONE reading here knows perfectly well, "being productive" and "conversing with BAH...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 866
You are welcome. BAH has a unique experience from a coordination viewpoint in one of...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 867
You guys usually make me feel like a young whippersnapper when you yak about hardware. And those houses...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 868
I have done that on purpose. I never touched windows XP, except as a naive user on other people's machines. I took the...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 869
87? 87? That system probably has MFM drives. (Maybe ESDI or SCSI) The oldest ATA drives that I have are from 1990. I don't think that anybody still makes MFM...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 870
This is getting to be a pretty good exercise in the hazards of PCitis and the extraordinary lossage...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 871
Wonderful. Not my bits are distributed globally and not locally. Now I have to depend on all kinds of comm systems...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 872
It is worse than this. We have developers who do not know what sources are! It has nothing to do...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 873
these development and how My point is that nobody in his computer clbuttes told him about machine language. I think...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 874
Of course. My intent is to get him to "see" it on paper. My second intent is to get him to be aware that there...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 875
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:34:10 +0000, jmfbahciv Less worrisome than not considering it useful to learn ANY machine language. As for myself, I am...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 876
OK. I'm still not sure that the sound I hear implies stuck. When did the SOS flash? After each and every disk request? Or just at...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 877
It may not. This was a problem that only occured on power up. If the drive starts making funny noises and misbehaves after you're up...
Long posts was: breastle screen for HLA Adventure 878
That's clever. I've never seen that reaction to the "stiction" problem. Hmm, I never tried that. I've gotten a...
breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 879
Take a read of the Magna Carta or the American Consbreastution sometime...thus far, you demonstrate "fascism" in far greater degree than I have...
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