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SNIP They do if you count the ones flogged with PS-2 adaptors. :) here in the UK). To be honest BAH, I suspect you should really...
The Soul of Barb's New Machine was creat
Because you're running a crepuscular old version of Windoze on a box won't even give you WWW access1, and you could have a shiny new...
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box mmmmm...pizza. I've been having the weirdest hunger pangs lately. Yes, I know I have all this help at my request...
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I can never stay at amateur level. I'm an all-or-nothing kind of gal ;-). system. I understand...
Keeping score was The Soul of Barb's New Machine was creat 1126
While I don't thnk most Doctors are dishonest, I can't say that about everyone. A couple of months ago someone sent me an email that claimed the flu...
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In other words, anecdotal evidence from people who have a vested interest in painting a certain picture. (Not that it's easy to find anyone without a vested interesting in some...
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Actuary is indeed one of the most harrowing educations you can take. You start out with a relevant degree (Msc Economics or similar...
Keeping score was The Soul of Barb's New Machine was creat 1129
In other words, given your example and the buttumption that 70% is correct (I can't find...
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Careful design avoids a lot of need for debugging. Hardware cache coherence isn't hard; just...
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Bernd Felsche oops, not exactly. 360-67 had test&set instruction and no caches. charlie, while working on fine-grain locking in cp-67 smp kernel at the science center, invented...
The Soul of Barb's New Machine was creat 1132
glen herrmannsfeldt case. original cas, 370 cache machines were very strong memory model and store-thru...
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It was submitted to a DECUS as one of the pre-DECUS paper presentation seminar proposals but turned down. I haven't managed...
The Soul of Barb's New Machine was creat 1134
There is that. It is also the ability of any CPU to be able to pick up where another CPU left off without having to reexecute the same code to set...
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I think that's a fairly good description of Linus' role in Linux kernel development, at least as I see it from the periphery. One method he's been using is the handing off of...
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That's been my impression. This is a very small step. Note that this is handing out only the knowledge that...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare
Here in alt.folklore.computers, are still actively used in some places. My current workplace still uses both, for example...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare 1138
wrote, in part: JCL is absolutely appalling, from what I've heard. Basically, the problem is that to run a program takes multiple command lines; what...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare 1139
Here in alt.folklore.computers, The clbuttic OS2200 environment had nothing like redirection or piping, either, but it's quite possible now for me to do something similar to The original...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare 1140
John Savard command you something for some of the JCL issue has to do w...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare 1141
John Savard I'd love to see some discussion of Burroughs and Univac vs. IBM. I can't contribute much, me...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare 1142
part: The particular issue I'm referring to here is that there isn't really a "newline" character in MTS as such. Both "line" and "sequential...
IBM, UNIVACSPERRY, BURROUGHS, and friends. Compare 1143
On 10 Jan 2005 18:58:44 -0800, Lawrence Statton N1GAK-XE2 The purpose of copyright is to benefit the public. Copyright is granted to authors to encourage them to produce...
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comes in Hold the phone! You guys are talking about coding technique tradeoffs. I was talking about the tradeoffs made at the "what are we going to implement next?" time...
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From what I have gathered Linus is far more of a Social Democrat than most people understand. (Swedes have a word...
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Wouldn't the work processes established be similar? I don't really wish to pull apart the processes he's using to herd cats. I'm more concerned that the processes...
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Don't take this too personal. It is quite common here in a.f.c. There were lots of efforts in "de...
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I'm not taking this instance too personally but I never had time nor patience to reestablish territorial imperatives every f***ing time I sat down to a meeting with the same people. I...
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That's an aspect of a successful evolution of the technology. The problem, as I see it, is that IBM didn't force old code to "convert" to new the way...
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the post I'm hoping to respond to here didn't actually make it to my cite, so I'm really responding to the first response to it that did. If I've got the attribution...
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I've used it, albeit on a i386 ~20-33 MHz and I didn't think it sucked...
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The 8080 had a way to derive stack access, but not the Z80. Nor was the M1 a reliable code-data separator, since M1 was not butterted for all code fetch cycles, only the first...
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And what about (curse, spit) segmented architectures *wasn't* "interesting"? Also, as we all recall from Intel's marketing material - Nobody would ever program these amazing new processors at the machine level -- we'd all be writing...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1154
Ok, let me go a little further. How are you going to load the code memory from the I-O device? You can't write to code memory using the DS-ES registers because they're...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1155
Indeed. It's a very old idea. I fear that it's been neglected too long because of the "cost" of implementation. Of course; spending an extra...
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emoticon gets sudden cold shower Ewww..I don't like that. A goodly part of a program is to ensure that static values (or messages) stay that way. Another large part is...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1157
This was implemented in OpenBSD a few minor versions ago. (3.3?) Primos also got it a few versions after BIND was introduced; (20.2?) Didn't Multics (eventually) implement this right? What extra cost? There...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1158
And "executeable" file may consist of one or more of the following "block" types: Executeable - being pure machine instructions which may only be referenced by...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1159
Yup. I didn't intend to imply it hadn't carried the file protection scheme over. There had to be some way to "convert...
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No, tops20 had protection on individual pages, and the loader set them right. The instructions for that is in the .exe file. Malignant code, either by purpose or my...
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Partly right. First; the collective code base for PCs that consbreastute Linux and the more PC-centric FreeBSD are still absorbing innovation from the last 30 years into a consolidated code base. They started...
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I didn't know what to snip..sorry. Sigh! My point, which I wrote badly, was that there isn't any emoticon groops for word conglomerate...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1163
On the several boards I've evaluated in detail, if ECC logging was enabled, the system did take control at the BIOS level, usually via the SMI interrupt, and log at least the...
8086 memory space
the default was called "autolog1" .... near the end of the boot procedure would call to the autolog command processor ... pbutting the command "autolog autolog1". It was expected that the installation would have installed...
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back in the 1970's, i helped out a guy who had two floppy disk TRS80's in his office. they came with this single-program, single-file 'inventory...
8086 memory space was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine 1166
Ahh, the 8080 and 8086 were never intended as general purpose computer systems. They were originally...
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Stuff having to do with data entry and forms. Note that "forms" has a specific meaning back then and I don't know if the term's definition has changed. I've...
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They need a lot. I noticed; it's going to be an Achilles' heel of Open Source. That's what happens when there is...
The Soul of Barb's New Machine was creat 1169
And will crash on just about all 'modern' sites. No thanks. Read carefully, I recommend this only once: - Buy a small form-factor peecee that is advertised...
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IIRC, there still are in those packets. What I wanted to do sometime (when I had spare cash to blow and energy to play) quality bits leak through so that I can play my...
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Morten Reistad This of makes me think of Max Matthews' work on controllers that convey musical gesture to the machine, and follow-on...
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Bah. Contrary to common misconception, vi has only added modes quite recently. Insertion was an escape terminated command. However, with the vim extensions (and possibly in other variants), it is now possible to...
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and Guess where RDH works? Good ideas travel fast. I just don't understand why Linux doesn't have address break and a DDT flavored debugger. By flavor, I mean the features, not the program...
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Today I went in Circuit City, and I've done the typing test in CompUSA and Best Buy too. Some of the keyboards have interesting functions...
Model M keyboards still made was: creat
Really? I suppose that I *could* go upstairs and peek on the bottom, but . . . but my...
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Charlie Gibbs ... snip ... You should have had the following around :-) Take 1 from column A, and 1 from column B ... * Routines to reverse a file, char by char. *-* by C.B. Falconer, 19 Dec. 2001...
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Well, there's also the organ that could be used as a study in human-interface design. Long but steep learning curve (training time measured in years or decades), fairly unforgiving (if you accidentally brush...
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tymshare had a unit called tymnet that had their own backbone and lots of local dial-up numbers...
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