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John breastor was right IBM 5100
The "real native code" is PALM code. PALM was a board-level processor. The acronym stands for "Put All Logic in Microcode". It's a fairly simple processor four banks of sixteen 16-bit registers. One...
VMS coming back to life 1295
wrote, in part: While I do think that OpenVMS for the Itanium may not lead to a stampede of people adopting it, I am, despite the...
VMS coming back to life 1296
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:24:25 +0000, John Savard I think you're the only one on the planet who...
VMS coming back to life 1297
part: On the other hand, I have to admit that I see no evidence that the people in "the...
The first PC circa 1965 1298
CBFalconer Very interesting. I'm somewhat familiar with the Monroe-Litton calculators of around that time (I have...
The first PC circa 1965 1299
Tim Shoppa And the Wang. Those all appeared later than the DAC. The DAC was preceded by the Mathatronics, which was effectively about 1-8 the DAC...
The first PC circa 1965 1300
Inductive. U.S. Patent 3,381,279 ("Read only memory") describes a simpler form of the HP 9100A ROM. Conceptually similar to the IBM TROS (Transformer Read Only Store) used as the control...
something like a CTC on a PC
Between Pascal-VS and EPM Pascal? I don't know the former, but it was for the S-370, whereas the latter was for the AS-400. Different platforms. EPM...
Books and Videos related to computer history 1302
On 21 Jan 2005 07:46:20 -0800, Ringo Langly Wonder if he will do a new edition, updating to Linus? Cringely is good, specially when misremembered with the cartoon...
Books and Videos related to computer history 1303
Michael Black my hi everyone, Thanks for all the awesome book suggestions, and Michael I am an avid Linux user too (can't believe...
Show and Tell 1304
Spaces embedded in an e-mail address? That's an interesting anti-spam tool. At least I hope that's what it is... We would have just called it a splicing tool. Nope, sorry...
Show and Tell 1305
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:32:38 +0000, Alan 'A.J.' Franzman My take on it: If you look at...
Show and Tell 1306
Among the wreckage we found a fragment on which had scratched: I used this gadget, or something similar...
360POO
note that the principle of ops was one of the major mainstream documents (other than the cp and cms documents) that was put into cms script softcopy form. one of the original...
360 DIAGNOSE 1308
If one were *very* careful there were a few specialized situations in which a customer could...
360 DIAGNOSE 1309
real" diagnose tends to invoke machine specific microcode whose operations aren't defined in the POP (aka the POP says something about diagnose functions are defined as being model specific). I had...
M.I.T. SNA study team
i got a new toy that i'm just learning to use (especially trying to cleanup the OCR bit) ... an epson 2480 flatbed scanner note that...
End of Eternal September predicted film at 11
YOu obviously haven't seen what google is doing. They took over dejanews's archive some years back, and while I...
Replying On Google
Note I've taken out the other newsgroups The problem is "merely" that the default on the new interface is not to quote. Another indication they've set it up for their "groups" where you...
WordStar or the Like 1313
Not very. I used jed for a while several years ago and, despite (or, perhaps, because of) the fact that my spine knows WordStar, I've...
WordStar or the Like 1314
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:55:09 GMT, Mikko Nahkola They should be.... My WordStar 6.0 was configured for an HP LJ III (July, 1990 -- $1,872.50) under DOS (5.0?) on an 12MHz AT-286. I...
Personal Computer" Why haven't the email bobmers been shut down by no 1315
Like you, I see no "nostalgia value" in Wintel-clone x86 kit. I have one "old" (1999-vintage P3-500) PC doing pretty good service as my home LAN's general...
Personal Computer" Why haven't the email bobmers been shut down by no 1316
it's not the size, it's what you do with it, mate Same here. The powersupply of my Indigo2...
Personal Computer" Why haven't the email bobmers been shut down by no 1317
Exactly. But we disageree to what "elegance" is, and what is an old wreck. A little rundown on what I kept and what I let go; so you get to see what I...
Personal Computer" Why haven't the email bobmers been shut down by no 1318
Many. I've enjoyed using their kit for about the last 15 years, and hope to continue doing so (probably a generation or two behind) for a while longer yet! Wrecks, I'm afraid. 4-330s are...
Personal Computer" Why haven't the email bobmers been shut down by no 1319
Who said anything about giving *you* SGI hardware? For all I care, you can do your increasingly annoying, off-topic L*n*x proselytising...
Personal Computer" Why haven't the email bobmers been shut down by no
The first Linux 386 I built was compared intensively to a Prime 4450 and a 2755; both machines that cost similar amounts to a DEC20. It beat the 2755 on all...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary
They did need certification by '83 or so... May have been legislated earlier... but I remember 1983 or 4 as the year gasketted 11-780's started taking pieces...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1322
and Only because you're reading my posts through 2" rose-colored glbuttes. Most of the experienced developers knew to ignore Bell and his spouts. The IBMesque managers who...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions 1323
True enough. As one of those customers we hit a wall at eight COBOL programmers online. The 2040 was a joy to work on, compared to the 370-138 it was supposed to (but...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions 1324
In-house it was MACRO-10. This should have been a very strong clue and I still don't understand how this aspect of non-thruput...
Little Endian 1325
Tom Linden Little topic shift, just curious when, how and why Digital adopted this addressing scheme? John Sauter...
Little Endian 1326
I can't speak to how or by whom, but why I can explain. Many computers before the PDP-11 were "little-endian" to a limited extent...
Little Endian 1327
Or, you could get the least significant bits of the mantissa. Mantissa-last ordering was common on 24-bit computers. This was...
Little Endian 1328
BCD data is numeric data. The most significant decimal digit in a byte should be stored, consistently, in exactly the same place as the most significant hexadecimal digit in a...
Little Endian 1329
That's not how it was done on the Burroughs Medium Systems; addressible to the nibble, the...
Little Endian 1330
A belated entry in the discussion. but absent all the smoke and flames that erupted...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1331
Big deal. I still can't plug my stove in and listen to 1030AM radio. :-) That sounds familiar. VT05s did not...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1332
Well, the BSD that Ultrix was based on just came out in 81 or 82. I suspect it took a...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1333
it I gave you the specs for that project. You keep trying to portray that this was awful. 3 req for the -10 work vs. 12 reqs for the -20 work. Your smoke...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1334
Really? How many TOPS-10 vs TOPS-20 customers were there in 1980? Now I know that you are in a fantasy world. Perhaps the real...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1335
That count doesn't matter. What mattered in 1980 was how many -10 customers would go to other manufacturers with their open and well-filled pocketbooks...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1336
I take exception to some of Mark's statements, and disagree with others. Mark Crispin: Bottoms...
Anyone remember FCC Regs on emissions was Tops10 disk quota quandary 1337
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, John Sauter Reasonable people can agree to disagree. That certainly does not mesh with what's written in...
Want a Fast Computer 1338
You don't have to be so destructive. They work perfectly well as soon as you...
Want a Fast Computer 1339
Morten Reistad SNIP firewall with current any My work laptop died sometime before Xmas and I've been using this here unloved Windows XP laptop instead... Fully patched + up to date, Adaware, Spybot and AVG...
Want a Fast Computer 1340
CBFalconer I remember the day, I think it was in fourth grade which would have made...
Want a Fast Computer 1341
Charles Richmond) writes: We graduated from pencils to pens in the 4th or 5th grade, which for me would be 1960 or '61. But although our desks had the holes for the...
Want a Fast Computer 1342
Except, for some reason, they are not quite solid at all. There are a couple of weak links in most designs I have seen. First of all, there is a removable cap to cover the...
Want a Fast Computer 1343
Our '89 was a 2.2l turbo, which had to kick in just about any time you...
Want a Fast Computer 1344
Again, someone is presenting their views on Linux : The new flashcards from Sony are about the size and weight of a fingernail, and carry half a gigabyte of data. When a...
Kildall's BIOS 1345
CP-M's BIOS was radically different than what had been done for OS-8 and RT-11. At the time, you had to buttemble your OS-8...
Kildall's BIOS 1346
You might be interested in an article I published on Feb. 2, 2004, in the Computer Collector Newsletter -- turns out that the inventor of the IBM PC's BIOS was the same...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1347
D. J. Bernstein Oh its worse than that -- there apparently exists exactly 2 platforms which could use two different representations for a pointer...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1348
When you don't know what you're talking about, it is better to remain silent. Now we have yet another error that if let stand would mislead more programmers. The C standard does allow memcpy...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1349
Douglas A. Gwyn Read carefully. What you said and what I said are not contradictory. The problem is for pointers of *different types*. Its...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1350
Douglas A. Gwyn The 64-bit desktop uses 32-bit int. Specifically: Definition 2.4, page 3P-1 (64...
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