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Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3721
when I started on hsdt project one of the things that I soon realized that a lot of the...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3722
Based on what AOL tries to stuff down my disk throat, I can imagine :-). Is it possible...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3723
Of course not. No, I was trying to imply that 'GreyCloud' was that stupid. He is...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3724
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:01:15 -0500 in alt.folklore.computers, Charles Aarrgh! Useless error messages. I hate 'em with a vengeance...
DEK was: Why I use a Mac, anno 2006
books. Please do. I just checked on his own web site and see that it actually says: "You are enbreastled to a reward of at least $2.56 if you are...
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David Scheidt wrote Some snagged from various places over the years... You are not expected to understand this. It's...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3727
When they stopped being helpful. Help desks are things IT Debt Management put between USERS and IT Staff to keep work from ending when the PC's hit every desk...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3728
I expect so, because he's absolutely correct. OSX is relatively secure. There have been proof of concept trojans-virus-worms written for it. It's especially susceptable to the...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3729
but never ever found in the wild. big difference. you mean the kind where a hacker brakes into your house and looks for post...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3730
No the virus was actually discovered in the wild and actually infected some system files...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3731
denials, evasions, and rhetoric omitted..)) I've worked on both Mach and BSD (which I gather you're aware are the roots of OS X). I'm aware of...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3732
Wegie Windows wasn't designed to be put on a network from the get go. Windows became the dominant platform over time. The Mac shed market...
Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 3733
Correct, that's why it has 99.999999999999999999% of the Viruses, it just wasn't design for how it is being used today. The Mac never had very much marketshare, maybe 16% tops, that...
IBMMAIN Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on zOS
Marian Gasparovic very Boyd and ooda-loop oriented I sponsored Boyd a number of times at internal corporate seminars in the early 80s (it started out being slightly less than full day, but...
BYTE x87 issues
is 20 years old enough to be considered folklore? if not, then you afc folk can disregard. Found some nearly...
Dual Core CPUs are slower than Dual Single core CPUs
and the multiple threads are conserving cache lines in many cases by making use of the exact same data (so you may be getting...
Alcosser's Book Link
Yes, however the term is the same in the European Union and many other countries. I see Canada...
Miniaturized electronic tubes Distribution: world
Until how much they could have miniaturized the valves, thinking to printed circults with directly soldered miniaturized valves, in which the...
Miniaturized electronic tubes 3739
The story I heard was that some of that was a deliberate choice to reduce the plane's vulnerability to EMP. (Or maybe that was just a fortunate side effect.) Vacuum tubes are...
Miniaturized electronic tubes 3740
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:10:24 GMT, Jitze Couperus Those are different than what myself and (I think) the OP was referring to. The peanut tubes...
Tokenring vs Ethernet 10 years later 3741
Charles Mills re: years later microchannel 16mbit t-r card were going for something like $900-card aggregate...
Tokenring vs Ethernet 10 years later 3742
Anne & Lynn Wheeler re: years later years later the SAA drive was controlling feature-function as part of trying to maintain the terminal emulation paradigm and forestall...
Tokenring vs Ethernet 10 years later 3743
Gilbert Saint-Flour there are a whole bunch of issues. as part of the SAA terminal emulation strategy, the T...
Google Architecture 3744
Bill Richter and the difference between that and loosely-coupled or parallel sysplex? long ago and far away, my wife was con'ed to going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture...
Google Architecture 3745
so the issue is effectively how fast fault isolation-recovery-tolerant technology becomes commodized. this is somewhat the...
Google Architecture 3746
re: we took some amount of heat in the 80s from the communication group working on high-speed data transport and 3-tier architecture (as extension...
Google Architecture 3747
Phil Smith III about ten years ago, i had opportunity to spend some time with people at NIH's national library of medicine. at the time, they had a mainframe bdam implementation...
Google Architecture 3748
Anne & Lynn Wheeler a little drift back to ibm: from above: Safeway and its technology partner IBM were...
Movie Computers
Eugene Miya wrote On 06-05-06 12:19,: Perhaps it shows how much more farsighted movie studios are than computer companies. From early times, it seems, the studios twigged...
Virtual Virtualizers
re: so the original VMA (virtual machine buttist) was done on the 370-158 (and then replicated on the 370-168...
The Power of the NORC
One of the web pages about the Naval Ordinance Research Computer constructed by IBM for use at the Naval Weapons Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia claims that its performance was unsurpbutted until...
The Power of the NORC 3752
wrote, in part: You have a very good point, although I tend to be inclined to disagree with you. (This doesn't mean I do disagree with you, just that I wish that...
The Power of the NORC 3753
The quality of Wikipedia articles reflects the inputs and the people who have taken the time to edit. This is the first...
The Power of the NORC 3754
That *is* a valid point. On a smaller scale, one could imagine, in the old...
The Power of the NORC 3755
General purpose timesharing is not a supercomputer. We had one customer who shipped compiler jobs from IBM 3033s and 4341s to the PDP-10 system to...
The Power of the NORC 3756
in part: On the Motorola computers, they put 80-bit extended in a 128-bit storage...
The Power of the NORC 3757
in part: In that case, you *will* know more about this sort of thing than I do... The 6, yes. The 4, 7, 9, and 15 can be left out. Generally, in terms of...
The Power of the NORC 3758
CONTROL's program was functionally equivalent to an empty program. It was simply the optimizer to work it out. Oh you had not...
The Power of the NORC 3759
I'm not clever enough to appreicate fully what you just wrote. But I sure have an itch of wanting to run...
The Power of the NORC 3760
The idea was that Fortran unlike other labeling was constrainted to 99999 digits. This is a small number on most computers. In part...
The Power of the NORC 3761
Well I have seen optical correlators for synthetic aperature radars. What they do is amazing. So are many analog machines which most people never get exposure. A friend...
The Power of the NORC 3762
wrote, in part: In that case, the computer architecture that I describe on my pages...
The Power of the NORC 3763
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:10:26 GMT, Brian Inglis Yes; I've seen information about that. I...
The Power of the NORC 3764
John Savard) wrote, in part: I was too hasty. SR-3108 9.1, the buttembly language manual for the T90 and its predecessors, does give opcodes in an appendix. Reviewing the table of...
The Power of the NORC 3765
All of them. The couple of EE degree programs were a joke, too. (This was in the late 60s and early 70s.) With the space program, EE degree programs became a production line of churning...
The Power of the NORC 3766
Of course. But our biz' roots stem from that kind of small thinking. It was the time when production line BSs became normal. The...
edu was: The Power of the NORC
Quite true. business man, and another boss once told the architect of the Convex to leave the supercomputer business and sell their great compiler technology...
edu was: The Power of the NORC
I meant "production line" literally. The goal was numbers not contents of each memeber's brain. I...
The Power of the NORC 3769
in part: Yes, and I can understand why. Back when Grosch's Law ruled the Earth, you still couldn't spend twice the price of a 360-195...
The Power of the NORC 3770
4x in the supercomputing world isn't significant. My old office mate wanted increases on the order of 50x. 8-16x only starts to get interesting. O(n^3) and O(n^4) are HEC applications. This...
KA10 PDP10 front panel diagram added to web site 3771
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:20:36 GMT, John Everett And I thought that the DEUCE computer had an...
KA10 PDP10 front panel diagram added to web site 3772
Huh? Bzzzt. Wrong. Thank you for playing. Systems Concepts were extremely successful at building a PDP-10 clone, thank you very much. (As the systems manager of the facility to...
Computer History Museum 3773
Quite true. The problem is that public insbreastutions like the Smithsonian are not set up very well to record technology...
Computer History Museum 3774
I went to the Computer Museum in Boston three or four times. The first shortly after it opened. Again some years later...
Computer History Museum 3775
No, the dissolution had very little to do with DEC. The problem with all museums is the education vs. Debt Collection perspective. TCM became that's termed...
Computer History Museum 3776
If we want to present "the experience" to today's youngsters we do not need close access to the actual hardware. The terminals and the...
Computer History Museum 3777
What I am saying is that the physical, external appearance of the computer was a...
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