test-drb December 2001

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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 13, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote: > !07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH Go to sleep, Sridhar. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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pleH!

by vance＠ikickass.org

!07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH Peace... Sridhar

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CPT 9000

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Hi everybody, I remember somebody mentioning the CPT 9000 on this list recently. Since I just happen to be working on one, I thought I'd post this question here. Does anyone know where I can get some of the original software that might take advantage of the full screen-height? I have a copy of ventura publisher that was pre-installed, but I assume that its CPT9000 driver is corrupt. It works with the Herc ega driver, but with the CPT9000 driver, I just get some strange text-mode blocks. I also wonder whether anyone's tried Minix on it, and whether that might address the whole monitor? Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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1GHz PDP-11 (Re: Prints for an 11/70)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 12, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > What little I've read about UNIBUS told me that UNIBUS has no set clock > rate, and that the speed of communication between two devices would be the > the highest rate that both devices could handle. If you've got nothing > but Sridhar-made fast devices on the bus, what stops you from having a > UNIBUS operating at say, 33MHz to 100MHz on average? I don't recall the specifics of Unibus...but its bandwidth is commonly stated as being about 7MB/sec. If that's the case, then it's unlikely that it's asynchronous. But perhaps it is asynchronous, and 7MB/sec was just the maximum. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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Nanoseconds per foot (RE: RIP: Betty Holberton)

by CLeyson＠aol.com

For coax or twisted pair the delay per unit length is given by:- Delay (Secs/unit length) = Root( (C/unit length)*(L/unit length) ) Example: For RG58-U coax, C=100pF/m and L=250nH/m Delay = root(250E-9*100E-12) = 5E-9 sec/m or 5ns/m A pulse will travel 66% slower in RG-58 cable than free space. If anyone needs to lay out high speed PCB's the following book is highly recommended: "High Speed Digital Design - A Handbook of Black Magic" Howard W Johnson and Martin Graham ISBN 0-13-395724-1 Chris Leyson

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Smoking around computers

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: charles hobbs [mailto:chobbs@socal.rr.com] > Speaking of which, ever open a machine formerly owned by a > dog/cat owner? I have. Being a cat owner, I find that I need to clean my systems of cat-hair on a regular basis. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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I've discovered a new pleasure.

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 11, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote: > > > I am pretty sure that I will be bringing one of my IBM S/390 G1's to VCF > > > East next year with VM, MVS, and Linux running. If anyone else brings > > > machines capable of SNA, FDDI, Ethernet or ATM, you'll be welcome to hook > > > up to me. > > > > Eh? The G1 isn't 10 years old, is it? > > It is indeed. Both of mine have manufacture dates in 1991. Ahh, I thought the G1 came out in 1994 or so. I stand corrected. :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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Burroughs - any information?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> This is a page about a B205. I'll eventually get a page up about my > G20M/200. Oh shit he's got the Jupter II helm! Talk about your unobtainium... -dq

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if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 13, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > But yes, I agree...Linux can be made to work well on machines with > > small quantities of memory. It's actually pretty good at it. > > Hey! Don't forget about ... *waves NetBSD flag frantically* Oh yes, most definitely...I run NetBSD in production at a number of sites, and it's wonderful. I only mentioned Linux specifically because we were specifically discussing Linux. While I like Linux a LOT, I don't consider it production-ready enough to bet my dinner on it. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> But I ask the question is bigger always better? I am the guy who still > uses 640x480 cause this way he can read the screen and the menus at > the same time. I suspect the wheel of computer design will turn again > towards 'smaller' CISC (pdp8-style?) machines as the interconnect > in chips between modules is becoming larger compared to the the gate > speeds. I never understand this- why not kick it up to 1027x768 and use the Windows Appearance controls to make the menus and screen fonts larger? That way graphics look nice and text is still readable and things you have to click on (buttons can be made bigger too) are bigger targets... It's the best of both worlds, instead of being limited to one... Regards, -dq

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