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50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4590
Anne & Lynn Wheeler I don't think they were very popular. Drums were a "compromise" between the high capacity of disk and the high speed of core. Since...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4591
there was another "comprise" between disks and high speed core for 360s. disks (drums, datacells, etc) were referred to as "DASD" (direct access storage device) ... more specifically "CKD" DASD (count-key-data). the trade-off...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives 4592
re: you might find the marketing department from a line of business possibly taking small part of their budget ... say several million to drop on...
50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives
Michael Black ZX Spectrum had so-called microdrives - endless loop tapes: 1993 is pretty late, but not unconceivable - during the 1980s, hard drives were...
a love letter to usama bin laden
psychic person invisibility +++ isnt it f***in awesome ? i can whack a hundred thousand ppl with one psychic curse and is so...
SDS 900 series sofware archive recovered was Computer Artifacts
Here is something I just posted to the SIMH developers and to the Computer History Museum Software Debt Collection mailing lists that may be of...
A Day For Surprises Astounding Itanium Tricks
When using Google Groups, I clicked on a sponsored link which piqued my curiosity.... about the advantages of computers using the new...
A Day For Surprises Astounding Itanium Tricks 4598
there have been various looks at doing 360-370 simulation on itanium (porting existing i86 simualtors to itanium) going back to the earliest days...
A Day For Surprises Astounding Itanium Tricks 4599
And, of course, *this* reminds me. Back when the Intel Mac was just a rumor, I suggested that, since unlike the Pentium, the Itanium has the ability of...
Still looking for help
I totally agree with saving these things Redwolf Sorry i don't know your real name but i was just...
REAL memory column in SDSF 4601
in the early 80s ... "big pages" were implemented for both VM and MVS. this didn't change the virtual page size ... but changed the...
REAL memory column in SDSF 4602
re: "big pages" support shipped in VM HPO3.4 ... it was referred to as "swapper" ... however the traditional definition of swapping has been to move all storage buttociated with a task in single unit ... I've...
REAL memory column in SDSF 4603
some of this cropped up during the early days of os-vs2 svs development. at the time, cp67 was...
REAL memory column in SDSF 4604
processing latency ... this was if you would to do multiple consecutive full track transfers ... with...
REAL memory column in SDSF 4605
say 6bits of storage key per 4k bytes is lost in the noise? (2k storage keys as well...
REAL memory column in SDSF 4606
from previous post reference in previous post ... from reference above: may have a b-bit block or byte error. There are codes to variously correct single b...
Some sonofaunpleasant woman has my computer. 4607
Nono. I believe I read somewhere that today's sekrit Scooby word is: "ROOING" Which, by reading the above and being just as...
Some sonofaunpleasant woman has my computer. 4608
Surely you of all people would've learned by now not to buttert absolutes based on limited samples? If you see...
Some sonofaunpleasant woman has my computer. 4609
On 26 Sep 2006 09:58:06 -0400, Rich Except I should have gone for the pregnancy joak, given his use of the word "oddly." There was a story in the Annapolis Capital on Sunday about...
Some sonofaunpleasant woman has my computer. Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender
The feeblest intellect had derived vigor from excessive interest. What minor evils might arise from the contact were points of elaborate question. The learned now gave their intellect...
Some sonofaunpleasant woman has my computer. 4611
fOn Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:51:50 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Kevin From Wikipedia on semicolon: 'In English, the semicolon...
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