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Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4531
For mission-critical stuff, you build in redundancy. I can pay a lot of dollars for a system that will run forever with no downtime, or I can pay a lot fewer dollars for...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4532
It is not ugly or inelegant. You take cheap hardware, and throw the book on it in terms of good protocol, software and software design, and...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4533
Trust me, they do. Not in some ideal world where all your HW is the same and you can run the same OS on all your boxes and they all run the same...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4534
No; but any of the discussed systems have a pretty firm lock on their root file system. *n*x systems...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4535
the vm370 based commercial timesharing services started running into this problem as they started acquiring customers...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4536
Right. I think PMs were in our contracts to occur once-month. Yup. That was one approach. Our SMP implementation allowed tightly coupled to SUSPEND the system, split...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4537
Modern USB or Firewire is a lot faster than what disks need, and they are designed for being hotswapped. *n*x does not like "-" going away. This can...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4538
Several concepts are getting confused together -- one is the "boot media", and one is "the root filesystem". It is common for them to be the same, but...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4539
Yes. Now you got it :-). It was in our shop because of the way we had to have a system up and...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4540
if the boot medium cannot go away" does not parse. The boot medium CAN go...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4541
Well, you could do that in Unix, but it's generally not done - the disk(s...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4542
AncientHacker Somewhat off-topic, but it might have been a firmware thing: The Burroughs TD850 was a smart block-mode poll & select terminal successor to the (in my opinion...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 4543
it had lots of other issues ... very complex algorithms. when a task became runnable (say somebody doing input editing) ... the virtual...
Linux More Secure on System z
lots of past posts discussing typical c language programming and end ... resulting in lots of buffer related vulnerabilities. part of this is that implicit string and buffer lengths tend to be...
Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust
re: the future system project was going to have lots of stuff like that (as well as gobs of other stuff) ... and would have replaced 360 (and early 370). however as...
MUDs 4546
Al Kossow There's more from Richard Bartle himself at Typical of that is this snipped from a 1988 interview: WABIT How did it all...
MUDs 4547
I only found 1 error on the IAC in Katie's book, and I had a chance to meet Matt before he died. I think Katie is now on husband #3. The...
3200 _bpi_ ... that insolent format
As students of the history of computing know, IBM invented the vacuum column for the 726 tape drive, used on the IBM 701 computer, also known as the Defense Calculator...
Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4549
I was broached with the question in May. The answer came back, oh it was delivered in March...
Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4550
Someone paid for and published in part of the Datamation article after Seymour's rest an...
Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4551
Bernd Felsche It is quite clear from the history that they well understood the concept of critical mbutt. They had other problems 0. Fission research funding was...
Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4552
Depends what you mean by old fashion. Two ways. There are a number of way to answer by comparison. 1...
cold war was : Cray1
You and he mean Soviet style. 25% of the world still is: PRC, PRNK, Cuba, Vietnam, 2 more left leaning Latin American...
cold war was : Cray1 4554
Of course. That's what we were talking about. Yes. The politics dictated the laws of physics...
cold war was : Cray1 4555
Oppenheimer's brother also lost his job and took up cattle ranching, but von Neumann, Metropolis, Fermi, Feynman, Bethe, Bradbury, Segre, Einstein, Bohr, Kistiakowsky, Wilson, Bacher, Manley, Kellog, Weisskopf, etc all went on...
cold war was : Cray1 4556
During the war, Gen. Groves knew he had a good percentage of Communists in his staff, but he signed for both of the Oppenheimers. It was war...
cold war
They made Pu-239. This is where neutron contagioning was learned. They were kin to ORL. One nice history book exists about them. It's selection was an interesting choice...
cold war was : Cray1 4558
Eugene Miya Our productivity kept well up into the late 60s when 0. European and Japanese economies had recovered to...
cold war was : Cray1 4560
On Sat, 30 Sep 06 09:44:34 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Not much seems to be publicly known...
Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4561
Do not mistake the race to the Moon with the compilation of the Strategic Arsenal. The former is called the space program. The latter was called deterrence and a number of other names for...
cold war again 4562
I just call them as I see them. See ***. Elementary teachers only know that after the fact. A small number of generals...
cold war again 4563
Only after some physicist told them what part of the sky to view at some specific time. Trust...
cold war again 4564
Not all of us were city slickers, Eugene. Watching the sky was part of our way of life...
cold war again 4566
Eugene Miya Well they were sort of right, I don't believe we had another plant available immediately after Nagasaki, but the fact that we might have had to wait a month or...
cold war again 4567
D.J. We can play whatif forever, but for one more iteration 1. Japan had thousands of aircraft, but it was planning...
cold war again
Actually, I just bought the DVD for my collection. Some one typed in all the juicy quotes...
cold war again
Coasts. They weren't just to let planters know where city lights were but also the submarine and ship navigation purposes. See...
Cray1 Anniversary Event September 21st 4570
Not only. Nuclear weapons were done without electronic computers. Women with Marchants and men with slides rules first did it. Thermonuclear weapons required computers. The...
my pc 4571
D.J. Of course, I agree. But he did post here, and the energy involved in the replies was twice the energy needed to...
my pc 4572
Sorry, folks, couldn't resist...) Yes, there is a wonderful program, called TIME. Please be advised, though, that TIME is freeware, and thus carries no warranty. Use TIME...
Teleputers LLC
Does anyone know anything about this company? The resume of its founder lists it as still in...
Teleputers LLC
I did some searching to find out more about the algorithm for setting up a transpose (basically, the two outer...
Mickey and friends
Here is the link to an article which gives y'all a glimpse at Mickey and his friends and his hate object. There's even a picture of Mickey leaning on his auto. I...
Mickey and friends 4576
Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj Again an idiotic buttumption on your part. You seem to be QUITE proficient in this arena. It is neither a babe magnet NOR an ego booster, it...
Mickey and friends 4577
Peter Flbutt I do not endeavor to be everyone's favorite person. As my dear old dad used to say, if everyone likes you, you are either...
Mickey and friends 4578
Some people like to take clbuttes to waste time and money - their bosses, mostly - and get out of doing their job for awhile. Some...
Mickey and friends 4579
Read one paragraph further up. By all means do refute the hatemongreres. Use all available developments in rethoric, logic, philosophy and history to do so...
Mickey and friends 4580
But MLK was only partially right. Zionism has the same problems as other nationalist movements. Zionism is held to be special. I cannot see what is so idelogically special about it; it...
Mickey and friends 4581
Oh, thank you. I've been trying to figure this out for years now. I hadn't thought a...
Mickey and friends 4582
Then keep trying, as Mr. Reistad is quite inaccurate in his buttessment. There is nothing fuzzy about it. Again, read Rev. Dr. MLK's position, it is as accurate and...
Mickey and friends 4583
past threads-posts from above: my wife has just started a set of books that had been awarded her father at west point ... they are from...
Mickey and friends 4584
Morten Reistad 6,000,000.... that's why. Not the point, people are trying to take our ancestral home away from us because, for a BRIEF period, between 1921 and 1948...
should program call stack grow upward or downwards
minor note ... the savearea allocation was the responsibility of the calling program ... but the saving of registers were the responsibility of the called program ... i.e. on program entry, the instruction sequence was typically: STM...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4586
Yeah. Been there, done that. Not really imagining, just remembering. :) In some ways, it was better...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4587
Ah, but Windows already does this to a certain extent. Once the GUI is up, there's still a lot of disk activity going on, and that mini...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4588
At the same time, it's a shame that so many of the very clever algorithms optimized for serial storage seem to have been forgotten (or more likely never learned) by the last couple generations...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4589
360 had fixed head 2303 & 2301 drums (2301 effectively a 2303 but read-write four heads in parallel...