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Computer History Museum 3778
Then there are the LOTS users from Stanford. The Low Overhead Timesharing System had 3.5 FTE: The half-time Director, and the full-time System Manager, System...
DEC's Hudson fab 3779
At that point it wasn't clear that the facility would ever be needed. In a depressed economy and during mbuttive layoffs stockholders take a dim view of...
DEC's Hudson fab 3781
East Germany was always in Germany. :- But, in the October 3rd 1990 unification the BRD...
DEC's Hudson fab 3783
Yes, yes. We had similar restrictions with disk packes. This not covering the face makes no sense. It is the source of tons of crap. A face is constantly generating organic materials. Think spit, sputum...
DEC's Hudson fab 3784
A long time ago, and several employers ago, I worked in a semiconductor-related company. This...
PDP15 singleprecision floatingpoint format corrected on web site
wrote, in part: By restyled, I simply meant that the panel had a white background over much of the expanse, and that the blue zones over the switches, instead of simply being rectangles...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3786
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:42:17 -0500, Charles Richmond The right time *was* early, if you had the money to afford a computer that was powerful enough to be...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3787
I always wanted an M6809 machine, and now I regret disposing of it.... Why not if they are...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3788
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:42:17 -0500, Charles Richmond Although I'm not going to condemn you for being...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3789
at the university in the late 60s, we had 2702 telecommunication controller with type-I line-scanner (2741) and type-III line-scanner...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3790
Charles Richmond There are two separate issues here, which should not (imho) be conflated: namely DIY computing, and Z80s...
An OutoftheMain Activity
It was the same in Australia a little earlier. Late 60's, early 70's The only modem you could lease was...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3792
They were NOT available.... because of this. Very few kiddies had any opportunity to read code. Think...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3793
I Barb then replied: As others have said, the BSDs were available in the early 1990s despite the copyright battle going...
An OutoftheMain Activity
Michael Widerkrantz Things were comparable in Finland, though I think Finns and Swedes mostly preferred different BBS...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3795
People were taking a chance. This doesn't make code readily availabe to regular people. Hobbyist code, with due respect to those hackers^Wexperimentors, is not code that has been...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3796
A company called BSDi did a lot of work to bring the BSDs to the marketplace. They released BSD-386 as a commercial...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3797
On Fri, 16 Jun 06 10:03:33 GMT Yes they were - I first downloaded and installed FreeBSD and NetBSD towards the end of 1993. The...
An OutoftheMain Activity 3798
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:08:22 +0000 (UTC) FreeBSD 1.x was based on 4.3BSD - there never was a 4.4BSD other than 4.4BSD Lite and then later 4.4BSD Lite...
Large Computer Rescue
long ago as a student programmer, i had a summer job to port 1401 MPIO program to 360-30. basically MPIO acted as front-end they could run 360-30 in 1401 hardware emulation mode and run...
The ANFSQ31 Did Exist
I was looking through my copy of Jean Sammet's famed book on programming languages, my interest sparked by coming across a reference to compilers for the...
Computers in the movies
I don't know whether anyone is collecting computer sightings in movies, although there's certainly been enough discussion about it here recently...
Computers in the movies
I was there, see "Larry Luther" in programmer's credits. We ended up with a Cray XMP. Production was late, scenes were redone only...
Combining Drum and Core
A single CPU operates on one word of information at a time, in general. When such a CPU is attached to a large random access memory, a condition exists...
Combining Drum and Core
John Savard Sort of. Your average x86 CPU probably has around 20-120 instructions in flight at any given...
The ANFSQ31 Did Exist
John Savard) wrote, in part: Of course, I was thinking of the famous post by Robert Firth from comp.arch: ** Indeed it was. Here...
KDF9 was: The ANFSQ31 Did Exist
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:31:37 +0930, Mike Hore OK, I *did* see a reference to that somewhere; but that seemed to be *only* for subroutine return addresses or something like...
KDF9
Hi, Brian! Yes, but the 96-bit floating point format was range-defined; being used, e.g., for DOUBLE PRECISION variables in...
KDF9
On 19-6-06 05:22, in article I still have my 40-year old KDF9 Programming Manual: "(C) All rights reserved English Electric Computers Limited price: five shillings" I can confirm that the manual says that...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting 3809
since I've rarely heard of similar problems under tcp-ip implemenations on other platforms, it is possibly bugs in the vendor's tcp-ip implementation ... check with your tcp-ip vendor about possible bugs in...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting 3810
I have had years of problems with TN3270 and typeahead. Try telling people that it *does* *not* *work* is pointless...
Setting up raid 0 on Asus P5WD2E Premium
Hi, I just finished building my new computer. Here are the specs: Asus P5WD2-E Premium Pentium D 805 2.6GHz...
Setting up raid 0 on Asus P5WD2E Premium
I stupidly bought a 800 meg 8" ESMD hard drive thinking that I was going to expand...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on zOS 3813
Ed Gould re: (Was: Using Java in batch on z-OS?) a lot of the original hasp-jes2 networking code running...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on zOS 3814
Paul Gilmartin SNA isn't networking ... at least in the sense used by most of the rest of the world. SNA is quite good at...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on zOS 3815
Ted MacNEIL there were some amount of dirty tricks ... not all that can be repeated in polite company. with respect to the previous post about running sna thru a real (peer-to...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on zOS 3816
Ed Gould we did a lot of work for vm originally on 138-148 .... besides ecps there was a lot of investigation trying to make it almost as transparently...
One or two CPUs the pros & cons 3817
Brian Westerman you can easily see in the LSPR numbers that as the number of processors increase ... the relative thruput multiplier (as a function of a...
One or two CPUs the pros & cons 3818
Gerhard Adam couple previous postings in this thread cons cons minor topic drift, for a long time the corner stone of SMP operation...
One or two CPUs the pros & cons 3819
Ted MacNEIL the redbook "effective zseries performance monitoring using resource measurement facility" gives LSPR ratios for lots of stuff...
One or two CPUs the pros & cons 3820
Charles Mills for two processor SMP ... an SMP kernel can add possibly 20-30percent overhead (your mileage may vary) compared to uniprocessor kernel running on a single...
Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on
in hsdt i had one effort to ship a peer-to-peer networking operation that had...
A statistic
I have set infinite expiry on this group in my news spool, and it dates from Nov 12th 2002. Correcting from multiple email addresses I get the...
Strela: The First Supercomputer
Technology in the Soviet Union, especially in 1953, was significantly behind that in the United States. Thus, it is hard to believe that the Soviet Union made the world's first supercomputer...
Mainframe Limericks... 3824
os-360 ... pcp. i don't remember that you could "sysgen" mvt until release 12. boeing huntsville had custom modified mvt version 13 with virtual memory support running on two processor 360-67. the system...
Mainframe Limericks... 3825
That agrees with my recollections. And one other event at release 12 was that the sources were all resequenced...which wasn't really that much...
Mainframe Limericks... 3826
Van Dalsen, Herbie minor ref: from above: The seeds of a minicomputer revolution were planted as...
Mainframe Limericks... 3827
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:43:07 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Anne & Dec Other claims: Manchester Mark I went into operation in June 1948--becoming the first stored...
Mainframe Limericks... 3828
Hunkeler Peter , KIUB 34 multics started about then. lots of early 545 tech sq folklore ... mostly about cp67 and vm370 ... in melinda's...
Mainframe Limericks... 3829
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. re: refers to posting refers to abbreviated quote from Melinda's history paper...
Old Hashing Routine 3830
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. 360-67 shipped with virtual memory supporting both 24-bit addressing and 32-bit addressing options (i.e. you could have 4gbyte virtual address...
Old Hashing Routine 3831
Jim Mulder re: in past posts i've told the story both ways ... both of the unused bits by architecture allowing PTEs to address up to 2**14 4k...
old 3b1 UNIX games
If you guys don't mind, I'll plug the 'SDF' which ran on AT&T 3B2s and currently is on...
Nanodata vs Microdata
I have a hard copy of the second edition of Microdata's manual; those less fortunate can find it on Al Kossow's web site. But my memory being not what it should...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff
I recently bought, cheap, second-hand, an old issue of a British astronomy magazine. It had reviews of the Meade RCX400 telescope, and the Cape Newise telescope, both...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3835
This has been discussed here before. While NASA certainly bought a decent number of early IC's, it was ICBM R&D that...
Display memory types was: Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff
John Savard The CTC Datapoint 3300 terminal used MOS shift registers for the character memory, with...