What is "x286emu" on Linux?
I've seen it in directories, but I'll be damned if it does anything
yet. No references I've seen and no hits on Web search engines.
Does it exist by itself, or is it part of a library for another
program?? Or...????
Thanks,
-Mike Allison
> ;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
> typed:
>
> [nip about REXX]
>
> >REXX is/was
> >quite a nice language to use, but some features rendered it unsuitable
> >for serious programming - numbers, for example, are stored as strings of
> >digits in the character code of the machine you are using...
>
> Uh, Sir Philip?
>
> Maybe there are other reasons that your statement of unsuitability stands,
> but I can think of one programming language that's very handy (& powerful &
> serious) which stores it's digits as charcter codes: Perl. From experience
> I can tell you that one heckuva lot more stuff gets done with Perl on the
> WWW than Java -- and it's a lot easier to pgm. in.
Sorry, Roger, I didn't mean to start a language war. I've never used
Perl, but I'm told it's good.
REXX, like (I think) Perl, is a macro language. It is designed for
doing little tasks that don't need lots of computing power. I like REXX
- I really enjoyed using it at IBM. But it is an interpreted language -
if I was writing a major application I'd use a compiler - and numbers
stored as strings are fundamentally slow - I'd use one which stored
numbers in a way that is fast to use.
But I was being careless. I was actually thinking "number crunching"
when I said "serious programming". (NB I _have_ done number crunching
in REXX - the potentially infinite precision is very useful!)
Philip.
PS *** OFF TOPIC - Sam Ismail need read no further :-) ***
Manhole covers (and the apertures at the entrances of manholes :-) ) are
indeed round because they then won't fall down the hole if you drop
them. But other shapes share this property - triangular manholes are
quite common over here. Any "Curve of constant diameter" also has this
property. Examples of such curves may be found in the 7-sided coins in
use in the UK for 50p and 20p
P.
I originally said it, but your email dosnt work manny.
-----Original Message-----
From: PG Manney <manney(a)nwohio.nwohio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Apple II GS
>
>> I'll take it!
>
>Who said dat?
>
>manney(a)nwohio.com
>"Why are manhole covers round?"
>
I don't even know what Turbo Prolog is.
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Allison <mallison(a)konnections.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Development, round II
>Gee, I was hoping for a Turbo Prolog trade.....Whatcha got???
>
>.,.
> v
>
>-Mike
>
>
>
>Hotze wrote:
>
>> BTW, if no one else wants it, can I have the OS/2 2.1?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim D. Hotze
>OS/2 Warp was 386, as I recall. 2.1, I can't remember, 1.2 was 286.
>You might need a 386 for the Program Manager, But I don't recall. I
>still have copies of 2.1 and 1.2, if you need to know....
Well, the phrase is OS/2 Warp IS, they're still selling it, *and* making a
new version, hopefully this one will be MS compatible, which gave IBM the
advantage over Windows 3.1
OS/2 Warp is a strange 32-bit OS, it RECOMMENDS a 386 or better, but
doesn't REQUIRE a 386 or better.
BTW, if no one else wants it, can I have the OS/2 2.1?
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
I looked in my never used copy of os2 version 1.3 standard edition and found
no mention of rexx so maybe it arrived in version 2.x but i'm not opening my
shrinkwrapped version to find out! minimum requirements for 1.3 are a 286,
2meg, and 12 meg of hdd space.
david
In a message dated 98-01-28 23:22:35 EST, you write:
<< OS/2 Warp was 386, as I recall. 2.1, I can't remember, 1.2 was 286.
You might need a 386 for the Program Manager, But I don't recall. I
still have copies of 2.1 and 1.2, if you need to know....
-Mike
Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk wrote:
>
> > >REXX on a PC? >>
I got an E-mail from a fellow in New Zealand (don(a)daedalus.co.nz) who
needs info on the 20ma current loop hookup used in the old ASR-33 Teletype
machines. If anyone on here can help, please respond to him directly. Thanks!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net)
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
At 05:15 AM 1/29/98 +0300, you wrote:
>Two things: One, the person that said that appeared as the "from" on the
>e-mail. ClassicCmp appears as the "to."
>>"Why are manhole covers round?"
>So that you can put them in any direction, without worrying about turning to
>fit it in.
> Tim D. Hotze
>
>
Actually, it's the only shape that won't let them fall through the hole, no
matter which way you turn it....
Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
> I've heard of those drives but I don't think this is for a drive. The
> only connector on it is a three pin plug that is accessable through a hole
> in the metal bracket. There is one 20 pin DIP socket that might be used
> for a connector but it looks like it's for an IC.
This is an Omninet interface. 1Mbit/s RS-422 twisted-pair bus
networking.
The interfaces for the Apple ][ (a card) and Corvus Concept (built-in)
have 6801s to actually do the work of moving packets between the
computer and the Omninet. I'm not sure if that's what is missing from
your 20 pin DIP socket or if it was intended to hold a BIOS extension
ROM to let the PC boot over Omninet.
-Frank McConnell
At 10:40 PM 1/28/98 EST, you wrote:
>I've got an 1129, but im keeping it. anyone know of a way of clearing the
>passwoid? when i choose various apps from the menus, it prompts for one and
>after i key in the wrong one, it brings me back tothe initial menu. i cannot
>get into anything.
Aw, c'mon! Wouldn't you rather have a password free GRiDCase 3? :) I'd say
disconnect the CMOS battery, but I don't think they have a CMOS setup. :)
The 1100 I had was running Dos 2.11, but the GRiDCASE 3 runs GRiD-OS or
MS-DOS 2.11, and no passwords on the GRiD-OS apps. This is one problem that
I see all the time, either passwords set on the GRiD-OS apps, password set
on setup, or just a password on startup. (You can tell these were gov't
contract machines.)
-John Higginbotham-
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