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Greatest Software Ever Written 4244
Cooling and then heating is a very effective way of drying the air. It is used in all large, commercial plants for pressurised air. You need not necessarily spend all that much energy on...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4245
You haven't been unpleasant womaned out until you ask about DIY air conditioning in an HVAC forum. Now that is pretty funny... I know of a gov't facilty last year where as part...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4246
Even "old" CNC machines can have a large footprint. The one I programmed Wednesday nights...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4247
RFID zappers are easy to build. The ability to track individuals based on the signature of combination of tags...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4248
As you noted in another post -- following "best practices" only gets you average results. And if you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten. In your average corporation, hiring...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4249
Well, I didn't expect you to. You said the key word: average. We have all bit a silver bullet: computers (basically). Paul Graham is a also a big proponent and I lean with him on...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4250
Good" academic programs? The ACM's curriculum guidelines * do recommend teaching more than one language: We believe that undergraduate computer science programs must teach students how to use at least one programming language well; furthermore...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4251
Exactly. The most efficient way would have been to fix Michsit. But I decided it wasn't fixable. It's folklore was too entrenched. Oh, but with a TECO macro you can read...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4252
Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj No, it is not. Saying so doesn't make it so, not that that ever stops you. Democrat, Republican, Of...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4253
early rex item in the (internal) vmnews letter (21aug79) another rexx historical reference: object rexx was created in 1997 ...and now available my misc. past postings about doing...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4254
i have numerous examples similar to that now ... earliest record that i have to hartmann and cms pipes is in 87 ... 6-7 years after the posted rex example...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4255
snip Well, they have to figure that out at some point, if they're going to be successful in the field. I guess there could be debate about whether it's good to...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4256
In my case, it was Fortran. I had read stuff about OO before, but tended to figuratively fall asleep while...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4257
On 01 Sep 06 08:27:28 -0800 in alt.folklore.computers, "Charlie Gibbs" Another wildly graphic illustration of time-space tradeoffs. ISAM uses minimal extra space at the cost of (sometimes horrendous) worst case times...
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Impact craters are important, as their shapes give scientists insight into the structure of a system...
middle east was: Greatest Software
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:02:17 GMT, Brian Inglis You would lose a large percentage of the...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4260
in the early 70s ... i wrote a pli program that analyzed buttembler listing ... abstracting code flow, register & variable useage (including looking for code paths...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4261
the abstraction had code blocks that were sequential sequence of instructions ... a code block could be bracketed by control flow leaving and-or code flow entering (from unconditional...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4262
Well, to be exact, they're still "able" but it's a lot more difficult. You wish. Plenty of places around...
Greatest Software Ever Written 4263
Stan Barr Actually, I thought there was a definition of "dialect" but that may be because I'm not actually familiar with the English concepts here. That said, there are certain gray areas, sort...
Please help
okay here it goes my name is ray and i just lost my job just this month and i need help and i will...
Big Bertha Thing blogs 4265
Big Bertha Thing lightcraft Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs 14K Web page Astrophysics net ring Access site Newsgroup Reviews including uk.rec.gardening Lightcraft powered by lasers and microwaves v1.1...
Bell System 1922 "computer logic
In 1922 the Bell System implemented "panel" dial switching in New York City. The system had to handle a high volume of calls and a wide diversity of central offices throughout New York City. This...
Bell System 1922 "computer logic" 4267
You are being overly simplistic and naive. The economics of the hardware that implements the logic drives many design decisions which not only influence the "bottom" of the design but percolate all the way to...
Bell System 1922 "computer logic" 4268
In grad school I learned a lesson from Dr Science: How to attack others where I myself...
Bell System 1922 "computer logic" 4269
With a little help from Google I was able to answer my own question, as well as...
The History of the ALGOL Effort
Tim McCaffrey ... As you said it is *a* history. I did not have the intention to be complete: I have tried to write an historical argument about the importance...
Standard Computer Distribution: world 4271
Sarr J. Blumson On my web page, at I describe a ficticious example computer architecture which was inspired by the System-360 and the Motorola 68000...
Standard Computer Distribution: world 4272
Al Kossow You are, of course, amazing. I've added a description of the RCA 110 to my site, it being a 24-bit computer, it had a high priority. I don't...
Greatest Software, System R 4273
i've commented before that we when we were asked to work with a small client-server startup that wanted to...
Greatest Software, System R 4274
Brian Inglis lots of system-r related posts i had done a lot with os-360 as an undergraduate .... and then visited pok quite a...
Barcodes... Ever wondered how it works
Barcodes encode numeric or textual information in a printable, machine-readable form. The use of barcodes can significantly reduce cost of warehouse Debt Management and inventory. Two main forms of barcodes exist today: Linear...
Please participate in a nonprofit academic research
Dear all: We are researchers from Shih Hsin University and we are currently launching the 2006 New Energy and Environmental Media Issues Survey, this is...
EMULEX UC07 PDP11VAX QBus SCSI DiskTape Controller for swap
Do you want to get rid of size limitations and constant troubles with old disk and tape drives? Save space and reduce your electricity bill by using SCSI drives...
The history of private datacommunication 4278
Peter Bjørn Perlsø For the UK, I have online a manual on Post Office Datel services dated May...
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:37:14 -0800, Floyd L. Davidson AFAIRemember, and the books are in a different room, and in an unstable...
The history of private datacommunication 4280
Correct. Of course *long* before that there were a number of others developed. Teletype machines replaced manual telegraphy, and as various forms of Frequency Division Multiplex became...
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Al Kossow The book "IBM's Early Computers" is the main source and is strongly recommended. Also by same authors "IBM System-360". A summary book is "Building...
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Were the messages actually routed? They were sent to all machines on a regional network, and only those that were addressed would in fact turn on...
The history of private datacommunication 4283
This is really a shift between technologies that is obfuscated by the speeds. The term "Baud" is probably misused here without the poster realising it. Baud is the rate (per second) of state changes...
Barcodes... Ever wondered how it works 4284
Salketer MS Word vers 6 had a postal zip code barcode generator for addressing envelopes. This...
Barcodes... Ever wondered how it works 4285
I must have come across them 25-30 years ago when I worked for the UK Health Service and was sent to rescue a project for the local Blood Transfusion Centre. They were introducing...
Overweight truckers stopped by tech checks
The Cortina was produced in five generations (Mark I through to Mark V though officially the last one was called the Cortina 80) from 1962 until 1982. From 1970 onward, it...
An alternative history... 4287
Well, I can live with Comic Sans, so I did read (most) of it, and I really didn't come away...
An alternative history... 4288
Sir Ray, Some interesting points. Some I don't understand, some I can explain, some... OK, so there has been several people complain about Comic Sans. I was...
Comic Sans was An alternative history
Brian, OK, now for the REST of the story: There are only 4 fonts that are absolutely guaranteed to be on EVERY computer that is used on...
Comic Sans was An alternative history
Brian Inglis Not exactly true. Microsoft used to have a set of ten common TrueType fonts (including Arial and Comic...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4292
Peter Flbutt Briefly (okay, not briefly), here's what they're discussing, and the point is a valid one. outlines for some number of glyphs. If you want to set 1 pt type...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4293
Peter Flbutt No, hinting fixes an entirely different problem. An outline is a continuous function. That is, it is a smooth curve on a plane with real axes. A...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4294
It isn't only dpi that's relevant, it's ppm. On a 1000 dpi output device, text printed at small sizes will still render at a low enough ppm where hinting can...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4295
Here in alt.folklore.computers, No, I'm afraid that's not really the case. This box (running IBM's OS-2 Warp 4) does have that font, but I think I went out of my way...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4296
Sir Ray, It really gets down to whether there is a flaw in the concept somewhere. All I really did...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4297
Well all the world is NOT a Microsoft Windows box, or even a Mac. Nope. Wrong. Linux (for instance) does not have Ariel, since that's a Microsoft-only font...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4298
Gene, While I do use the Internet a lot, I also spend a comparable amount of time actually IMPLEMENTING applications on it. No, I don't mean using Front Page or some such tool...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4299
Joe, There isn't one - at least you won't find "Comic Sans" in any RFC that I know of. The ONLY "standard" regarding what fonts should be there is what uSoft has put out. Some...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4300
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:24:06 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Steve Firefox ran fine on my Win95 machine and still rnus fine on...
Comic Sans was An alternative history... 4301
Brian, Is there any thought that they might be enforceable?! Thanks. Very interesting. I recently ran onto W3's proposed standards for speech I-O, that were SO badly conceived that they would effectively...
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