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Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3837
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:02:41 -0500 Just each row, hitting a row refreshed the...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3838
That might have been the case in the earliest DRAMs, but by the time they were...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3839
Surely you're thinking of The Digital Group, out of Denver. I had the impression (I don't know from what, other than the name) that they might have started like a club, pooling...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3840
box one I liked the looks, and specs, for the OSI's but I never worked with one at all. I lusted after those Digital Group systems. I never got close...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3841
You realize that in the case of this thread, your response to me, you actually *were* wrong, several times. Right? Note "both" and "they." Yet your response was: You speak of a single...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3842
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:09:30 +0000 (UTC) The first mainframe semiconductor memories were built with 1103s and in 1970 I think that was pretty much the only market for dynamic...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3843
Eric Chomko In 1975, I moved from the University of Copenhagen academic computer center to a commercial systems house (doing minicomputer real-time systems). As it happened, my first project was...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3844
The point is that mainframes and minis used core memory but never any microcomputer. As microcomputer technology expanded it did so in the mainframe and mini...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3845
In one of my earliest jobs as a programmer we worked with Nova 3's with...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3846
alt.folklore.computers The downside was that they shut down on PF more often than a machine not equipped with PF interrupt. I used PDP-8s as embedded controllers for power station...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3847
The obvious thing was as a "solid state drive". I certainly saw at least two of those described in the hobby magazines, though the bubble memory was...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3848
When I heard this old joke, it inspired me to react to it. There are, to a first approximation, two types of people. People of the one type take international...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3849
There were an abundance of reports of just how miserable life (and rest) was under...
Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff 3850
David R Brooks wrote On 06-28-06 19:18,: Seems to me there were many technologies and techniques that "made the PC possible," and that singling out just one of them is a risky business. The high...
First time poster, Rules and topic list. 3851
2^ ^1^ Unmoderated group. Very few. They are more conventions and netiquette than rules. 1st and foremost is not to...
First time poster, Rules and topic list. 3852
Use, netiquette, and usenet aren't consistent. I had reasons for maintaining the misc.jobs.* FAQs (I wanted an edge for hiring the best people, and it was useful. And...
First time poster, Rules and topic list. 3853
This is in the past. There was a period of at least six months when...
Curiosity
Jim Mulder there are many cases of searching list of n elements ... which can result in non-linear overhead increases. this typically happens when the frequency of searching is possibly related...
Calling all Music Lovers! Just another addressing mode
In my never-ending quest for new ways to modify the instruction formats in my example architecture so as to minimize the memory bandwidth used for fetching instructions, I have come up with yet another...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
On April 7, 1964, International Business Machines announced System-360. The initial announcement comprised models 30, 40, 50, 60, 62, and 70. The last three models were replaced by models 65 and 75...
Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print 3857
so most of the early cp67-cms work was all done with 2741 terminal keyboards reference can be found here delete .... lower case key to the right of the "P" key (found at the above...
Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print 3858
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:46:28 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler I happen to be familiar with that site! I hope it was in jest! My university, which used MTS, used a PDP-11...
Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print 3859
re: a couple past posts mentioning the MTS and PDP stuff this has a picture of the 67 running MTS ... although the comment is...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3860
I kind of doubt the 360-20 was even in the same league as an 8 MHz MC68000. IIRC the 8 MHz MC68000 had a 0.5 usec. memory cycle time accessing 16...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3861
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:06:23 -0500, Charles Richmond My original defense of the Model 20, such as it was, was a reaction to some articles...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3862
While this example does prove that long file names are supported, it illustrates another major "broken...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3863
Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj A copy-b command should not add any ^Z. Theb switch tells the copy process to continue past any ^Z in the source file...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3864
Well, it's like this: xx0.txt .. xx9.txt are what my Nortons file recovery program named the fragments. Norton did not...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3865
Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj As pointed out elsewhere, they are in the cmd.exe on Win 2000-XP, not command.com. That's irrelevant to me because I only use cmd.exe. If you...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3866
This is on a Windows 98 box? MS didn't invest much in DOS after 6.2. Since that version of Windows depended on DOS for its CLI, it suffered badly...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3867
Peter Flbutt Ok, when I say that principles that govern the operating system are in most parts the same, I don't want to say that timesharing is the same thing (or that timesharing has the...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3868
My interviews with old officemate from Livermore continue. We have been talking about early OSes: they...
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Your fairy dust is not working. Competing fairies have counter spells in place. Use is changing, evolving. Kicking and flogging are ineffective means to attaind lift. Morale will not improve...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3870
They do not remember the bad ol' days. They were bad. There is no way that I would ever wish for those days...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3871
360-67 had high resolution time so that the low-order bit tic'ed at about 300*256 times-sec, approx every 13mics ... as opposed to tic'ing one of...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3872
different operating systems were structured in different ways ... most of the "batch" systems tended to have minimal security, in...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3873
I didn't program it. I can't remember precisely what data I was using, but I can remember that it was at...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3874
Not all physicists. And that was not a typo. It was the psychology dept. where I...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3875
I didn't misread what you wrote. I know. There is also a good way to train them. The key was timesharing and allowing them to shut their office and make...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3876
Think bank account information. How are the numbers stored? Does the old-new software work well with negative numbers. Does it do its...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3877
That's OK. It is not. What is worse, people selling the compilers, etc. are no longer held to standards. In the olden days, everybody who wanted sell a FORTRAN...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3878
snip snip Judging by other responses, "application regression testing", or at least "regression testing", is recognized usage. But it's not what you mean, or it's not all of what you mean...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3879
It's a whole bunch of things. It would also be tests of stuff that bit the individual. If kid is in physics, his sanity checks based...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3880
snip Replying to this separately because it might be an interesting enough point not to get lost -- in some ways this seems like a trivial point, and in...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3881
snip There seems to be something vaguely wrong with the above paragraph ("the software"? "same results between two compilers...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3882
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:17:01 -0400, "Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj" I'm not aware of any, offhand. One could, for example, have a print train with, say, four repebreastions of the 48-character set (instead of...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3883
thread about using custom character sets on a 1403 train lots of snippage everywhere Not necessarily...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3884
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:36:31 +0000 (UTC), Joe Morris If you start with *five* copies, you're already limited to the 48-character set. But most of the...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3885
1403 was from 1401 comptuer and adopted for 360. there were several 1403 models. 3211 printer followed the...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3886
My first student job was to port a 1401 MPIO program to 360-30. MPIO did the unit record (cards) to tape and tape to unit record (print-punch) front end for the univ...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3887
I think the character set would have been called pica type (12 pt). I never dealt with the ALA until the 90s, but was aware of them and have attended ALA...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3888
The first internal (to Bell Labs) success of Unix was in displacing such a dedicated...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3889
On 7 Jul 2006 08:45:38 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, also Universal Character Set Buffer on IBM printers with loadable character sets; from CP LOADBUF command docs...
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writes: Even worse, many of them are proud of it. This is what led to my...
sorting was: The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3891
in the late 70s, we were sitting around some drinking hole late one friday night trying to think of something that would help promote online computer use inside the company (for...
sorting was: The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3892
says... We (hardware design engineers) were using computers long before that. I was a spearhead in...
sorting was: The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3893
ref: in that period, getting a 3270 on your desk required VP approval and the terminals requests also had to go into the fall budget plan. then one short period...