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Any resources on VLIW 4359
re: i don't have any left ... and am not aware of any online resources. possibly somebody has some old field engineering manuals with...
DASD Response Time on antique 3390 4360
David Day recent post regarding number of users supported by vm370 on old 32mbyte 3081 system Personal Computer...
DASD Response Time on antique 3390 4361
re: 3390?) part of this is global cache-lru vis-a-vis local cache-lru. i had been doing global cache Debt Management nearly 40 years...
Nice Print
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:02:22 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Steve Looks okay to me! Change your default browser font and-or size. Okay, here goes. instead of using paras and fonts...
Old Primos Documentation
During a major cleanup of his home Bill Gunshannon Have you contacted Bitsavers1 ? They have an archive2 with scanned docs. I believe they might be interested...
Your Mother Saves Data on EightTrack Tapes
No, not that kind of eight-track tape. This is a reference to one of the latest manuals to hit Al Kossow's site. The seven-track tapes used with IBM mainframe...
The Question of Braces in APLASCII 4365
RAV it most certainly was not fun! I did my master's thesis using that text system (666 TEXT, IIRC) -- after the...
The Question of Braces in APLASCII 4366
TaliesinSoft You are quite right. This page was written some time ago, and I carelessly included some buttumptions I had then made; I was...
The Question of Braces in APLASCII 4367
When I first ordered some Memorex terminals for use by the APL-700 team no specifications had been made t that time by the APL community of...
NRZI tape recording
Hi, thank you all for the valuable comments! After your answers I think that it...
Tape drive vacuum switch membrane, was NRZI tape recording
That is how life is for people who have the disease I have. A normal day for me is to plan which...
Tape drive vacuum switch membrane, was NRZI tape recording Comments: This message did not originate
However, you can send four dollars in change or twenty-five cents in pennies was not legal tender. Therefore, it could be an interesting grad paper...
Your Mother Saves Data on EightTrack Tapes 4371
I had wondered about this as well. Here is the justification given in the ansi x3.22-1973 9trk 800bpi spec: a2.4.3.1 the track numbering is logically buttigned...
Your Mother Saves Data on EightTrack Tapes 4372
Al Kossow Although that hadn't been the original focus of my page, I decided that I would dig among the information I had, much of it from your site, to add as many formats as...
facial expression survey request
Hi all, this post is requesting your kind participation to a survey that Gianluca Antonini and I have prepared in the study of human perception and clbuttification of emotions. The survey consists in spending...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4374
Anne & Lynn Wheeler, Presuming for a moment that the results have been "normalized" to the new test (no simple matter, and no...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4375
so in the original post referenced several previous posts mentioning some aspects of the subject. a few of the previously mentioned posts...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4376
Anne & Lynn Wheeler IMHO the "dumbing down" and educational declines were worst in the 1970s as a result...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4377
Whereas I think the problem is much simpler. I was educated in school. I was also educated at home. My children go to school...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4378
Oh no, I did not simply mean book learning. I meant ALL learning. I grew up in Brooklyn, where I met a LOT of...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4379
Agreed. Oh boy, do we ever agree on this. The current welfare system in the US is designed as a new form of slavery. Once you're...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4380
I was held back because my father wasn't and he wasn't ready to advance. Isn't this what I just said? It is in the...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4381
i just did google looking for sat historical references, i found a couple the first item returned ... from above ... National score data for the SAT are first available...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4382
Anne & Lynn Wheeler The challenge is that there are so many different social factors out there. I get nervous with statistical...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4383
kkt To some extent that's true, but the issue isn't so simple. Other factors include: 1) Many once "trade" jobs now require a knowledge of electronics and computers--and the ability to read and understand...
SAT Reading and Math Scores Show Decline 4384
One of the things that you learn early on when you work as a teacher is that you get what you test for. (This is a...
Arithmetic units
CB, Sometimes called the FOCUS number system, there is plenty written about this and even some logarithmic DSP chips for sale. All arithmetic (except integer) is...
Why no double wide compare and swap on Sparc 4386
charlie had invented compare&swap as part of his work on fine-grain locking (leading to some number of lock free operations) for cp67 (360-67...
Why no double wide compare and swap on Sparc 4387
the traditional locking on 360 multiprocessors had been test-and-set. charlie was doing a lot of multiprocessor fine-grain locking work for cp-67 at the science center when he...
What part of zOS is the OS 4388
Alan Altmark writes: so one of the motivation for original dual-address space ... was that lots of mvt services (like hasp-jes...
What part of zOS is the OS 4389
Anne & Lynn Wheeler ref: this brings to my mind somebody's line that goes something like "it isn't...
old hypervisor email
from long ago and far away. To: wheeler On our previous subject . . . yes, I think you should contact Dr. Bill Worley. He has 801, new interactive software and some low end processors...
OT handheld security
pbuttwords and other shared-secrets paradigms are "something you know" authentication ... out of the 3...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4392
Tom Marchant pretty much all during cp67 ... at least tss-360 group was trying to cancel it ... since the 360-67 (w...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4393
the vicious circle. If they toned down the politics, I would take a full time job. if...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4394
Yea. I understand. Boy, I could have used you as my sounding board. I never knew when I was in the middle of politics or...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4395
Growing up in Brooklyn instills one with a rather accurate bullpoo detector, it has stood me in good stead...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4396
the rich Didn't you say "kicking and screaming"? ;-) I read about Tiberias at supper yesterday. I had this atbreastude. Then I started trying to find...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4397
kkt Yes, 30 seconds of bi-partizanship, followed by 3 years of denial and recriminations. I'd rather have had the Democrats vote against the war that vote for it only to spend every minute...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4398
Eugene Miya I don't even know what's going on in Ira any more. For a while it seemed clear that the persons were trying to force us...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4399
No, they weren't. The goal is to never have a successful government based on capitalism. I haven't figured out why their timing is so atrocious and self-defeating...
Materiel and graft 4400
in fact, 6670 could be considered a (ibm) copier3 with computer interface. it did inherit "duplex" (being...
Materiel and graft 4401
re: and for some additional drift ... from the TeX Users Group web site an old "TUGboat" v6n2 (from 1985...
Materiel and graft 4402
re: After success of 360, the technical gurus were really riding high, and they were given some labreastude for FS (which i somewhat characterized as the inmates being in charge of the insbreastution...
Materiel and graft 4403
warning ... lots more drift ... re: a few web references mentioning los gatos lab turned up by search engine An early microcomputer (Was: Original Origins of Intel 4004) IBM 3624 IBM...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4404
helped After self-defeating. I don't understand your question. No, it is not. There is a definite loveual perversion. I still haven't figured this...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4405
Do you want me to swallow those ASCII bytes? Somebody politely requested I not distribute them anymore. spit was the shortest way to indicate I've done done this. spitting is better than...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4406
This doesn't make any sense and its timing makes even less sense. Did they get complacent because Israel was moving out of the Gaza and ceding back what...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4408
That's actually a more accurate description of the M-3 Lee (Grant in British service). It was cobbled-together contraption with a 75 mm field gun in a sponson and a 37 mm...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4409
D.J. The long 76.2 mm was a lot better than the short 75 mm, though not as good as the British 17-pdr (on the Sherman Firefly). The T-34 up-gunned from...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4410
There is no life limit to structural steel. There are relatively few structural steel buildings...
was change headers: The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4411
Right. IF. Organizing brings a flavor of communism which degenerates into some kind of dictactorship because only the viscious continue to...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4412
kkt Which is VERY sad, as we removed a truly dispicable dictator who actually used WMD against his OWN people. No, it is exactly why politics is so bad...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4413
kkt Goota start somewhere. As I said, it was right for other reasons. One day, I...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4414
kkt And here my friend is where you and I shall simply have to agree to disagree. I simply think the people do not always have the ability to stand up...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4415
Those are interesting cases, yes. Germany less so, because they had a democratic government for several elections before the nazis stopped elections. Several things that made Japan an exception: they fought hard...
The Fate of VM was: Baby MVS 4416
kkt So is it the motivation that determines whether a people should be freed from a despot? Same war. He came across the border into Suadi Arabia, but US troops...
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