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Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2850
I hear you, brother. Ironically, these people wind up spending every bit as much time "learning the computer". Unfortunately, their form...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2851
Charlie Gibbs I don't agree. First of all, most of us simply do not have the time or energy to gain a technical understanding...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2852
The thing is; it doesn't add more stuff to study if you have a basic understanding. It actually saves time and makes people more productive and *independent* in...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2853
Bernd Felsche Certainly some basic understanding is desirable, but where does it end? I have no idea how my word processor stores and parses the stuff I type in. Do I need to know...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2854
Still, I look at users taking courses in Word, Excel, or whatever, or struggling to master the many bells and...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2855
Charlie Gibbs Your point is very well taken. The new bells and whistles, mostly unecessary IMHO, do not make things easier...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2856
Alex You're certainly not alone with these views. Personal computers have become mainstrean. The technical limitations (and, on the other hand, the potential of being able to discover new things and...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2858
I think it depends on what you mean by "supply" and "development language". 1. Windows-2000 and Windows-XP include a scripting engine that allows "batch files" to be written in...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2859
Jukka Aho I don't agree. While the foundation technology has changed, the overall principles of hobby computers remain the same. Audiophiles had to change from tube amps to transistor...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2860
I don't think I am. I still have discussions from those days stored away in rotting archives...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2861
Yes, it's certainly possible, but not quite as likely as on a traditional dial-up BBS with local...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2862
I have found a number of co-posters across the approximately two dozen newsgroups that I follow. I think that this is because: 1) most newsgroups that I follow have, at least...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2863
Then I have no choice but to strongly disagree with your disagreement. The difference lies not so much in the ability to tinker but in...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2864
Alex But I don't have to do it myself, I can pay someone to do it for me. Now if my hobby was tinkering with my engine, I...
Computer movie Weds night "Hot Millions
William Hamblen S P O I L E R S I saw it last night and was kind of disappointed. Even though I like Karl Malden and Bob Newhart, I didn't find the film...
2006, THE YEAR OF THE ZX81
Bonjour, 2006 IS THE 25th YEAR OF THE ZX81 for all the ZX81 users and Timex Sinclair TS1000...
Mount a tape 2867
my first programming job was to implement a 360-30 version of 1401 mpio (rather than running 360-30 in 1401 emulation...
Mount a tape 2868
Louis Krupp i had some stuff from the late 60s and early 70s replicated on three different tapes (over the years copying from 800bpi to 1600bpi to...
Australia's first computer
I took a vacation to Australia last week, and visited the Melbourne Museum. I was delighted to find an excellent exhibit on the history of...
Vintage Computer Festival East 3.0 update
Okay, Evan here again. I apologize for the incomplete original message. I was so excited about speading the announcement news that I just...
Expanded Storage
note if you have 16gbytes of expanded store and 16gbytes of regular storage ... then only stuff in the 16gbytes of regular store and be used-executed. stuff in...
SPAM} Expanded Storage 2872
that was one of the issues that happened in the initial morph from cp67 to vm370. i had introduced global lru into cp67 as an undergraudate...
SPAM} Expanded Storage 2873
ref: minor addeda to what went wrong in the initial morph from cp67 to vm370. as i mentioned, LRU is based on the reference history being an correct predictor of future...
SPAM} Expanded Storage 2874
re: ok, and for even more drift. one of the things done for the resource manager was a...
SPAM} Expanded Storage 2875
re: and minor addenda to actual (implementation) benchmarking results corresponding to theory-model-prediction ... the modified predictor not only specified the workload profile (things like batch, interactive, mixed-mode, etc) and configuration ... but...
Coleco Adam Diak Manager question
Don't confuse "Disk Manager" (a Coleco product, supports 160K disks and 256K digital data packs only) with Tony Morehen's "File Manager" (which supports all known ADAM disk, tape, and hard...
Slashdots new policy
sprachen: Yup. Not as bad now, when we're all (I am) on broadband 24h. On pay-per...
Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL 2878
iverson and falkoff were at the phili science center and phili was supporting apl-360. cambridge science center took apl-360 and ported it to cp67-cms and virtual memory for cms...
Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL 2879
aleph0 no offense taken wandering OT: it's interesting how the quality of the site operation is taken as a measure of the quality of the hardware to some extent, this is justified -- Amdahl...
Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL 2880
info.freeserve.co.uk (phil chastney) writes: I give the latter group the breastle "Official Worrier". I've been in the same...
Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL 2881
I was once told to go sit at a customer site for six months. I was on good standing with several people at the...
Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL 2882
That's right. My first job out of college was going to be working on Xerox APL, but employed by Honeywell as the transition mentioned in earlier posts had already taken place. I...
Have an 8bit computer looking to use compact flash for IDE drive
It's best to quote something of the message you're replying to when using Usenet. There's no guarantee that anyone can see the message which led you to post the above...
Make over $10,000 a month, using PAYPAL
Make over $10,000 a month, using PAYPAL and a proven process, with just a $6.00 investment. It's easy, quick and simple, and can...
Big Bertha Thing blogs 2885
Big Bertha Thing dwarf Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs 42K Web Page Astrophysics...
another blast from the past
they were looking at doing things on a chip. I don't know if it is conflict...
CHM panel: Social Computing 7:00 Tuesday, Feb 14, 2006
WHAT The Computer History Museum Speaker Series presents Social Computing: From Messages Boards to Blogs & Beyond with...
Seeking Startrek Game in Magazines
I have in my Debt Collection the following 8.5x11 paperback books: 1) 101 Basic Computer Games, David H. Ahl, Digital Equipment Corp., 1973 2) Basic Computer Games Microcomputer Edition, David H. Ahl, Workman Publishing...
All Good Things
i did much of the original virtual machine install at boeing. three people from cambridge science center had come out to the university the last week in jan. '68 to install cp-67. I did...
Australia's first computer
Charles Richmond There was an article in one of the popular trade mags in the mid 1970's (it may have been Datamation) about the 20th...
Mainframe Jobs Going Away
David.Speake VM. I nor how know all? I I know recent posting on macrocode that amdahl implemented original hypervisor ... tge eventual response was pr-sm on 3090. the low-end and mid-range 370s...
Multiple address spaces 2892
Johnny Luo 3033 had a gimick ... it was still 24bit virtual (and real) addressing (aka 16mbytes) ... however, it offered a 32mbyte real storage...
Multiple address spaces 2893
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. expanded store was introduced in 3090 ... the memory was the same as regular storage ... the problem was physical packaging with the amount of memory...
Multiple address spaces 2894
Johnny Luo in the initial translation from "real-storage" MVT operating system, to VS2-SVS ... single virtual storage, a single...
Multiple address spaces 2895
MVS ... a long history from above ... OS-VS1 provided a single virtual storage address space system, while OS-VS2...
Multiple address spaces 2896
re: somebody just reminded me that access registers didn't ship until 3090 (they weren't on 3081). i have some recollection of various architecture discussions about access registers...
Multiple address spaces 2897
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. the semantics of the statement didn't preclude systems w-o paging but with...
Cache Memory Chips
Steve O'Hara-Smith At first there was the CPU 1)Then they added index registers 2)Then...
Military Time 2899
John D. Slayton 360s had a 32bit, binary timer ... located at location 80 (hex '50') in real storage. it was about 15hr period...
Military Time 2900
Gene Cash note that the 360 just had the cpu timer (at location 80) ... and...
Military Time 2901
Gene Cash originally, why i don't know. 360-67 had high-resolution timer option .... 13-some mic. version for use in accounting and time-slice. cp67 would stuff value for something...
The dissolution of Commodore 2902
Charlie Gibbs Yes a sad tale indeed. Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali milked Commodore and the Amiga dry. However I think it is hardly likely that the Amiga would have been an alternative...
The dissolution of Commodore 2903
I like to think that part of the problem was that the heads at Commodore didn't think so...
transputers again was The dissolution of Commodore 2904
MIPS is widely used in embedded applications. "baroque 68ks" ?? Wash your mouth out. :-) FWIW the...
transputers again was The dissolution of Commodore 2905
Well your problem was that you were using a 68030. Workloads are a different issue from single app time to solution. I was not part...
transputers again was The dissolution of Commodore 2906
ref: key escrow backed (certified) repositories that archived-backed-up keys ... that could be served with federal court warrants. commercial companies could view them as protecting corporate buttets; gov. could...
NIH again was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore
It was definitely underpowered at the time. It was far from the only one. And where is RISC? Well intended. Oh yes, I know, I have to collect them...
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