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When Does Folklore Begin 4187
snip-- he is a smart guy...if, in the fullness of time, i need to know, then no doubt, all will be revealed more important is the patch inside his head, and the patches...
When Does Folklore Begin 4188
ref: it had support for the same api-semantics as offered by vms dlm ... but internally it kept-piggybacked state in...
The Question of Braces in APLASCII
I have recently made a correction to some illustrations of APL keyboards on my web site. It was difficult for me to find the information which enabled me to...
PBX 607 and 608 cord switchboards
Because some participants have telephone experience, I am posting this here. I wonder if anyone is familiar with the Bell System's model 607 and 608 cord PBX (private branch...
Great news aboute Share Program Library
I'm taking the liberty of forwarding this note from Sam Knutson of Cbttape.org regarding the Share program...
hardware virtualization slower than software
Hardware virtualization slower than software? ... from above: One example given is compilation of a Linux kernel under a virtualized Linux OS. Native wall-clock time: 265 seconds. Software-buttisted virtualization...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4193
Eh, I think it was almost so *at the time* I remember all the magazines falling all over themselves about the new IBM PC, and going "why? what's...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4194
I'm not so sure about the underwhelming part. The 8088 is a lot more powerful than the 8-bit systems that were popular when the IBM PC was introduced. Writing...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4195
Anne & Lynn Wheeler Fun! -- but of course the salient difference is that the Lisp Machine was designed to be used that way (and only that way...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4196
I dunno. Lisp is, I suppose, in some ways, easier to compile than Fortran (particularly if you get to write the compiler...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4197
needed. Yea, well. It was a VAX attack. That's what they called it? Think about it...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4198
the I Right. Now, please listen. VMS was not this simple. It should have been but the pricing nazis created a dozen CATCH-22s with each...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4199
Not easier...Address space estimates have to include a count of what you need to keep track of. That always gives your first back-of-the...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4200
Philip Homburg Peter Flbutt The 286 segmented memory management has been much maligned. I may be the only programmer in the world who likes it. It does have some limitations...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4201
You can do the same thing on a 286. Each process gets around 8000 private segments and there are also...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4202
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:41:28 +0200 Perhaps - OTOH I found MP-M systems with a 6MHz Z80 and 256K of RAM outperformed...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4203
Philip Homburg This is quite true. While the original IBM PC was provided with 128 K of memory, and had an 8-bit data bus, it still...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4204
since how Not that I ever heard of. Anyway, the 8088 address bus is 20 bits. Eight shared with the data bus, four shared with the S signals, and...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4205
One of the things that made OS-9 "Big", was Radio Shack's decision to use the 6809 in their Color Computer", and then added OS-9 to the catalog. The CoCo version (which wasn't a...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer
When dial-up BBSes were still all the rage, I used to have an elaborate...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4207
part of the early migration to c-s and then to 3-tier ... was moving out of the terminal emulation paradigm. ibm-pcs started to see rapid uptake in...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4208
another from long ago and far away in the evolution into 2-tier-3-tier re: 4341 vs. 3033...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4209
other activity from long ago and far away in the 2-tier-3-tier evolution. SJR had a project to build experimental clustered vm-cms system, in part in support of...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4210
one of the things that serial has tended to do is have pair of unidirectional asyncronous connections ... which has helped with...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4211
from long ago and far away ... Harrier is code name for what became 9333 (which later turned into SSA). Note...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4212
True, but irrelevant to the subject (why was the 8088 chosen) at hand. The 80286 laying a couple of years in the...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4213
In the context in which I was replying (...the subject at hand...) yes, pretty certain. See following. Now you're talking...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4214
Around 1984, one of my tasks was to select a small computer system to replace the over-burdened HP87XM calculator-pretending-to-be-a- computer being used...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4215
re: ACM CAN; somebody mentioned the performance measures in the last issue of ACM-CAN. I just got v10n5 today in the mail. .... "In the...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4216
Of course, but still not relevant to the point. Yes, it did. They expected to built 100 or so machines. The Apple I. They had no reputation in the computer industry to protect. If...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4217
Wait a minute. Suppose MOS Technology couldn't have supplied enough 6502's, it still being a startup (though maybe...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4218
And that's crucial to this discussion. MOS Technology made it's mark in introducting the 6502 (actually, the 6500 which was...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4219
misc. old rumors from the archives ... just heard that CMC has directed GSD to come out with home computer ASAP. They are...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4220
As I said, I was not really interested in PCs until 386 systems became available-affordable. However, I can't find anything in the specs that would make a 6 MHz AT a less...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4221
Philip Homburg Our IBM PCs in 1982 came bundled with a "word processor" called PC-Write. I stuck a diskette...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4222
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:06:15 +0200 The MP-M Z80 boxes were designed as multi-user systems and shipped with a...
25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer" 4223
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:02:35 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith It gets more confusing. I have been doing a little more research on the Corollary card. It seems that the old drivers...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4224
Did they give you any other context like why? Was there any specific ordering? My basic guess is that the list was...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4225
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:04:56 -0700, Eugene Miya See the following, esp. the last paragraph. I think Miles has a typo; the architecture is...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4226
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:59:34 -0700, Eugene Miya I think we're saying the same thing, but...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4227
Peter Flbutt Ask an experienced TeX user :) I confess I'm not familiar with Script. But if it had done everything Knuth needed, he wouldn't have bothered with TeX :-) First, there is the richness and...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4228
remove the half just bring us back. Would you rather have Metafont-TeX or vols. 4 and 5....? You only...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4229
Heh. I was going to write a header blurb warning about the earthquake that should be happening. :-) I've been noticing that people take...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4230
Sure. This requires a lot of thinking by a lot of people. Of course. IIRC, TW had these kinds of problems when he wrote disk drive and channel software. That's a parallelism too. Sure. None...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4231
There's no compulsion to learn if the press of a button provides the answer. A...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4232
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:05:30 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Roland Newbies with little history. 1. The first Unix with forks and pipes made the difference. ARPAnet preceded TCP-IP which...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4233
It is certainly true that documenting is a unpleasant woman. At least he lived long enough to realize that documenting was important. No, they...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4234
This is where I have to digress. Making a small, simple interpreter is "programming 101" stuff. If you are doing a large project you will deal intensively...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4235
I feel so crippled when working on a Windows box. Forget perl, lex, etc. - I haven't had time to...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4236
Arrow keys? Hmph. What's wrong with hjkl? I tend to get a lot of off-by-one...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4237
Details below. My thesis is that lightning would have a very defined geometry such as the sleeper feels when sad real sounds...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4238
Of course it's a joke. But at least people are talking and there is some flavor of template to follow. That's...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4239
Right. The key is to not allow those crap walls retain water. I'm contact papering the crap walls...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4240
There is no test that proves hysteria. Yes, it can. Opening a window can be counterproductive since...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4241
I understand that. Our plant's air system first cooled the air, then heated it even in the...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4242
Perhaps to condense water - lower the RH? Some buildings have no heat, rather rely on the electrical load and use...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4243
100 ton penny drops Of course. Elevator. My brain must really be degenerating to not have thought of the obvious. emoticon thinks a bit Now that would...