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Nope. A theory is an idea that has already been unfalsified. This doesn't make it true nor...
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First I have to say that I started writing my response without reading everything you had to say. After reading your last paragraph, some editing was needed. The first draft was a...
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Hey! A whole paragraph with which I completely agree!! This sounds to me like an example of exactly the bad atbreastudes I thought you were saying aren't a factor -- men buttuming...
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I'm fairly sure that it will be difficult to muster political support for the idea of leaving children to fend for themselves. And I'm not even sure it can be defended...
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Them...Parents and their kids. And I'm sure it will be difficult because a Liberal's goal is to diminsh all self-responsibility. And you certainly jumped to a...
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snip Ah. I misunderstood. (If I'd been reading carefully, I'd have realized that in the sentence you were responding to, "them" means parents in one place and kids in...
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If you saw the typical parents of preemies and other seriously-ill babies and toddlers at the world-clbutt (no irony here, it's a fact) pediatric hospital here, you would rapidly come to the conclusion...
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I once read an editorial that cynically suggested that such welfare moms are effectively employees of the State. They're paid to...
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Oh, someone who works in one of those hospitals was telling me of one of the "Less standard occurances". Don't be alarmed, these are...
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Yup. Thanks that the name I couldn't think of. He got paid for that and was out in the field supervising whatever was...
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I haven't studied the infrastructure of Tammany yet. As far as I can tell, this kind of political infrastructure was much better at training future national politicians...
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I see. So it's some sort of clairvoyant-mystical thing, then. Great. I'd like to see the DOCs on that. Please provide a link. "Physician, heal thyself." "Memory management" (in the sense you mean it...
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I didn't think I was talking about memory protection at all. emoticon scrolls back then returns Oh, I see where...
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I was in the south of england (Kent) when it hit us. We lived on the side of hill, with a view of the woods below us. Went to bed...
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Yep. The worst weather to have hit inland UK since 1703. It started with a temperature rise from 11 to 19 degrees C in a matter of...
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Or at least brick and tile houses. While the wind speeds were exceptional for the UK, they were not that strong by some standards. The strongest gust recorded over the UK was 100...
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You have got to be kidding. Go learn something about the internals of a couple other operating systems, then come back and talk about this. What if I want to put a FAT...
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See, there's the crux of this whole problem: you and Babs come to the discussion with...
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An operating system IS supposed to protect itself from user apps. If the hardware won't...
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I think we are in agreement about the difference between Debt Management and protection. DOS does provide...
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I wouldn't pick Unix for a first self-study of internals. I'd point somebody as OS-8, RT...
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No, I don't suppose you would. I picked Mini Unix as an example because it seems to me to be a counter-example to GregM's opinion about what...
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Choosing any timesharing OS would probably be a bad idea for first exposure. Things get complicated quickly when you start dealing with more than one processfor want of a...
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They're just bargain basement computers, cheaper and smaller than a PC. They do offer a more...
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On 24 Nov 2005 09:27:48 -0500, Greg Menke I did a bit with an XBOX last year or so, at that time there...
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Yea, that's the word. Thanks :-) Wang had a business model that had to support everything they ever...
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The BIOS basically is the boot rom plus some hooks for video-comm system calls. They were invented back in the old days...
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More like a score of systems (the MS windows stuff is also different from release to release). So we got W98, W2k...
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Yes, DEC went through this but managed to make a mess of it. Some of it was good; some of it was bad. Things seemed...
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:12:11 +0000, jmfbahciv The firmware and software facilities to do that are...
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DAmmit. I wish you would stop stripping. IIRC, we were talking about ...can't remember. I wanted you to...
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You might well wish this. I will not comply. I try to keep to USENET norms of minimal quotes and at...
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:08:37 +0000, jmfbahciv *I* am coming across as an idiot? I'm pointing out to you, or trying to, that your cryptic comments, "That's...
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Exactly. That's why I can't teach you. My recommendation to acquire more experience, so you get an idea of what we talk about, was to go play with Multics. The most important piece to learn...
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Sigh! Not quite. Help, I don't think he's getting what I mean and I don't know how to tell him. You're thinking like application...
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Its a low-budget x86 only non-symbolic debugger wa very limited buttembler built in. You can use it to load programs and single-step, print and modify memory, print...
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Or there is an aspect of hardware and software combinations that hadn't been stress tested or the phase of the moon was just...
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But this isn't any way to analyze a problem. This is just crap shoots. Don't you ever have to find out precisely what...
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First what happened. This was sometime during 1988, during a PM session a saturday (early morning ) where amongst others a dead ESMD (winchester; ISTR it was a CDC 496 MB, but I may misremember...
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The board shuffle discussed above, is what happens in the field. Debugging happens in a vendor lab. But many vendors of cheap peripherals may not have...
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Nope. People work with what they've got. Think about long-term bit flows, work flows and people flows. Your...
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Both of you miss an essential part here. The people the IT industry roughshodly labels as "sysadmins and users" are the ones designing and running...
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Linux is well SMP'ed by now. I'll let Linux show off a 'top' listing : top - 21:49:27 up 2 days, 8:16, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.18 Tasks: 123...
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I think you *can* use gdb to debug the kernel if you have it running inside another kernel. One neat trick in Linux is that you can run the kernel...
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The debugger companion to the gnu toolchain is gdb. It has a number of incarnations, but they appear pretty similar; the differences are those dictated by surroundings. It has graphical front...
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I think they achieved fundamental brokenness by accident- by trying to be different and innovative, but not making performance and quality and utility of primary importance, they succeeded in making things...
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To clear up vocabulary; Linux handled MP in 1.3; but to call it symmetric is a stretch. It was one processor for the kernel, and severeal in userland. There were...
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Ah, I missed that. Multi is definitely not symmetric unless the system can run with any one of the CPUs and all the others dead. IOW, each and every...
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Here in alt.folklore.computers, Just a word from the peanut gallery, but that's our working definition of "re-entrant" in the Unisys transaction (TIP-HVTIP) world. A shared copy of either an instruction bank (IBANK...
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:01:35 GMT, Morten Reistad Marconi UK : we have stopped making SW transmitters and...
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snip Sure it is -- in a few places, anyway. It's taught mostly in theory clbuttes (*), at...
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Well, proposed proofs can be wrong. Maybe that's your point? Also, proving that an algorithm meets a specification tells you nothing about whether the specification was meaningful, nor does...
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Versions of DEC BASIC that I've seen (BASIC 11, Vax BASIC, et al) had a different underlying philosophy than most microcomputer BASICs from the late 1970's...
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it is possible as the heads flew closer it was easier to polish a flat disk to tolerance than it was to manufactor a drum...
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snip Indeed. One of my favorite old-time war stories is one I call "how I learned the difference between MS-DOS and a real operating system." It...
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What he's getting at is there isn't any hardware protection available for DOS- at least on...
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It would be wonderful if it did do a clean crash. MS-DOS does not; again, I will...
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