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I'm not familiar with that gear so I can't help point you to an idea. I do know that your...
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Don't Worry, be Happy! There are only two kinds of contraints in the known Universe: physical constraints and human constraints. The physical constraints cannot be violated. The human constraints are imposed by others (or yourself...
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Speed is usually the item one trades off when security and-or data integrity is a higher priority. I had no intention...
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Thats still not really helping. It does prevent people from easily writing software for the OS...
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Think of it this way: You can write a compiler that targets the virtualized machine that is presented by...
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Oh, so we're talking science fiction then. Ok, so what do I do when the vendor doesn't support the language I want to use? Or do they know better than...
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I'm not necessarily talking about throughput. I am talking about me being in charge of the programming languages I use on my hardware- not the vendor. But...
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snip... It was mentioned that some things simply do not work unless you are SU. Example, and I know there are others but have not encountered them: with Word 97 on Win-XP, spell...
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crapping I think it's more of how we peer at the computing world. You have hardware glbuttes and I have software...
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Ok, but we were talking about Windows' registry, which is not a pointer (FAT), but an ordinary file; a database file, if you will. Ok, but the "registry" is *not* a pointer. It...
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Reload? Or do you mean replace? A reload loses all the ongoing data such as current program counters...
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Yep. :-). I've been thinking about this ever since JMF and TW did SMP. No disruption or...
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No, you got it all wrong. The "three R" of NT-Administration are, in order: 1) Retry 2...
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Or in terms of "systems" meaning the total system, hardware plus software. They don't distinguish the individual parts, or know which ones can be .... Oh. I guess they do know that individual parts of...
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Turn your irony detector back on, please?) You know this. I know this. People who find the "full remote access to a system" innovative do...
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I'm skeptical. People really didn't know that they were sharing physical resources with many other users? or if they knew...
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It didn't matter. When it "mattered" as in poor performance, we treated it as a bug and fixed it. IBM was...
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science center did project in 1965 for virtual machine thing (parbreastioned) called cp40 on a 360-40...
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Fair enough. Interesting. snip snip I think we're sufficiently in agreement that we don't have to pursue this. My experience with early multiuser systems is IBM...
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On Mon, 17 Oct 05 11:43:13 GMT I think you misunderstand what it is - a tar file is just an archive file which can be unpacked (the...
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I don't think I was confused. These, distribution, installation, and end, are three separate procedures (although Java-flavors are mixing them up...
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On Tue, 18 Oct 05 10:53:18 GMT Then it's not a bug the sysadmin doesn't know this, what the sysadmin does know is...
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Something like this could be set up in Unix (multiple "default" configurations, with the choice of which one to use made on .... I can think of a couple of ways...
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snip I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I was talking only about whether all users start off with the same configuration (including search...
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before Good grief! Never on a timesharing system. We aren't talking at cross-purposes; all are part of delivering computing services to customers. Which is the heart of any computing usage...
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Dont think less capable. The P4 Xeon SMP boxes I'm putting in (3ghz 4gb memory dual cpu) could out run all the mainframes...
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No, a huge step forward - because ancient Unix didn't know about package management. Of course, back...
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recent thread on the subject in comp.arch. when we were having arguments about 3274 not providing interactive support ... the 3274 group effectively...
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Fascinating. Thanks. The standard joke(s) about TSO make more sense now. When I was using it (mostly for preparing and submitting batch jobs and checking their output...
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No, not even Redmondware ist that bad. This three step list is just the more escalation order of things to try to get stuff working again. One of the many problems...
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Right. Note your use of the term "lead to". It is a result of a mere bit distribution center pretending to be an OS developer. That is because...
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No. But NT & Co. have a tendency to become so seriously wedged that blowing it all away and reinstalling the whole mess is considered easiert that making it work again. You don't need filesystem damage...
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It's the "indexing" and "background fragmentation" that do it. M'Snot-NT appears to periodically "optimise" hard drive layout by shuffling stuff around. I built a testbed machine with...
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What an awful thing to say to a person. :-) Seriously, that seems unlikely. I started out on mainframes and have really very little experience with operating systems that are...
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Any time a computer system stops delivering computing services and has to reload the kernal forcing all users to redo what they were doing is a crash. This includes power outages. If...
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Cold start. You take a set of computer hardware that has no bits set on anything. You take a set of media that has...
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Well, it (the previous two paragraphs) is an interesting experiment anyway, and IMO not really less clear than DECese for...
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It is not an experiment. It was and is reality. This (cold start) is the most important piece of knowledge that is rapidly getting forgotten. No, there isn't any on-the-fly because...
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snip When I said "experiment", I was referring to "this is what you guys get when I try to strip all DECese out of my sentences." I would have thought the rest of the...
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As an example, the cold-start procedure on the Burroughs-Unisys V-series mainframes involved using...
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These are guesses. Plug'n play implementations. Unknown device drivers in the past and the future. Unix certainly cannot "hardcode...
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No. Not when the code is loaded as a user mode program. IOW, this code is does not have a requirement to be resident...
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snip But code loaded as a user mode program .... Doesn't that limit the amount of damage the code can...
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This is a device driver not an application. That depends on the architecture of the OS. Most device drivers have to be intimate with the kernal...
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snip Maybe what we have here is another translation problem? involving "user mode"? My understanding of How Things Work is that most architectures provide for two modes of end, "user mode" and "supervisor mode...
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Very likely :-). I've been trying to use Unix terms but I think I'm getting the subsbreastutions all f***ed up. Yes. PDP-10s called it exec mode. Right. And these are usually instructions that...
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That, Barb, is an interesting observation. A finer distinction than your usual compiler v OS thinking. Dave Cutler, as far as I know...
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the original (release 1) cp-67 scheduler (what i initially saw when they brought it out...
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To relate this EXACT topic to one near and dear to Barb's heart, Tom Hastings' name appears on both the CTSS...
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The trick was RSX11M and the big boy M+ were real-time OS's that did a little...
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IOW, task. The PDP-10 product line discovered that the two never mixed. Realtime, at that time, required a dedicated...
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At that time, DEC's PDP-11 operating systems were all over the shop, with DOS, RSTS, RT-11 and RSX in perma...
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M for sure. It might have been late 1973 when I saw it. Why not? I think John G arrived with an RK05 pack, maybe two. Later I...
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That sounds better ;-). I was in Marlboro by 1975. Three When I was watching 11 development there were no RK05s. Could they really have taken...
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The problem is packets can be "bad" for a variety of reasons buttociated with different parts of the network stack; IP addresses can be wrong, easy enough for...
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On the -10 you could toggle in a retrieval device code that is "bootable"1. The hardware would then do a block transfer of the first n bits from that device into core...
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snip -- much content replied to in another post Could be. Maybe I'm going into too much detail here, but that ".001% of the...
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