test-drb April 2002

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Cheap tools (was: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Dwight K. Elvey [mailto:dwightk.elvey@amd.com] > $250.00 set from a good source. The sockets split open, > the Philips screwdriver points rounded and damaged the screws > and the ratchet busted without even using a cheater. > It had a life time guarantee. I found the replacements just > as useless. Worse still, the plating from one of the replacement > sockets peeled up and slashed my hand. Hans is right, windows is just like that. :) > It is better to have tools that don't break or damage > your hardware than to have guaranteed junk. Yep, not to mention that I prefer to deal with more reputable organizations, like the IRS, or the DMV, or the mafia. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 2 months

Linux handheld

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

REVIEW: ZAURUS HANDHELD DOES MORE THAN LOOK SHARP Sharp Electronics Corp.'s Zaurus SL-5500 marries a flexible, Linux-based operating system with a slick, ingenious hardware design to provide a compelling alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC-based handheld devices. To read the eWEEK Labs review, click here: <http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo?y=ePhW0BzN6x0DUm0mWn0Ak>

22 years, 2 months

Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> > > I find it interesting that the gaming market is one of the > > > main defining markets for current PC hardware...the very market that > > > PC users used to scorn. I've always thought it was stigma that was > > > unfairly applied to the Amiga, even if it was better at it than the > > > PC's of the same time period. > > > > Good point -- name something that the Amiga didn't do better... > > > > The Amiga was doing "desktop publishing" *before* the term > was coined! In what year do you place this revisionist history? People were casually using the term "Desktop Publishing" in 1985, the year the Commodore Amiga A1000 was launched... Regards, -dq

22 years, 2 months

Calculating VUP values

by Huw.Davies＠kerberos.davies.net.au

At 07:29 AM 23/04/2002 -0700, Carlini, Antonio wrote: >It's amazing DEC went to such >bother calculating VUPs by running >a set of real benchmarks on a finely >tuned system and then reporting a >measure based on some weighted >sum when this procedure would have saved >**sooo** much effort: I didn't expect the command procedure to be as good as the real benchmarks but given that the benchmarks are hardly likely to be available for end users I was just interested to see if this command procedure was of any use. At least you can run it on any VMS box. >According to this proc, the machines >I can reach right now report: > >VAXstation 4000-90A: 26.0 bogoVUPs (should be 32+ VUPs) >VAX 4000-700A: 30.8 bogoVUPs (should be ~40 VUPs) >VAX 4000-705A: 34.4 bogoVUPs (should be ~45 VUPs) >Alpha 2100 4/200: 35.2 bogoVUPs >Takara (EV56@500MHz): 87.2 bogoVUPs Well it's in the ball park, though it looks like it's giving only about 75% of the accepted VUP rating. Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au | "If God had wanted soccer played in the | air, the sky would be painted green"

22 years, 2 months

Windows V1.0

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> > I don't recall any "Windows 2.0", but rather Windows 286 and Windows > 386. The floppies said Windows 286, but the box said Windows 2.0... -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits

22 years, 2 months

Emulex UC04 SCSI controller for MicroVAX

by flori_m＠gmx.net

Hi folks, I've got an Emulex UC04 and would like to use it in my MicroVAX II. Where can I find documentation for it? Greetings from Germany, Flori

22 years, 2 months

Futuredata System

by flori_m＠gmx.net

Hi, I've got an old FutureData 2300 System. It has an 8085 CPU and two 8 Inch floppy drives. What is it? What is it good for? What operating systems run on it? Where can I find Software/Manuals/... Would also trade it with an SMD Controller for my MicroVAX II Greetings from Germany, Flori

22 years, 2 months

Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

by blacklord＠telstra.com

Hi Dick, > > Good point -- name something that the Amiga didn't do better... > > > > Chris > > > Survive ... that's something it didn't do better. > Still alive, kickin' & new machines are about to be released :-) cheers, Lance ---------------- Powered by telstra.com

22 years, 2 months

Apple //e card

by pat＠cart-server.purdueriots.com

I've got an ALS Z-Card for my Apple //e, and was wondering if anyone had CP/M or MP/M for it. Any info on it would be greatly appreciated. I've tried using google, but haven't really found anything of much use. Also, has anyone tried making a 'soft disk' using SRAMs or an EPROM? I've now got a bunch of EPROMs that would be nice to be able to dump a 'disk image' that I could perhaps boot off of onto them. Any ideas from anyone on this? OR... perhaps something I could use a PC to emulate the disk... just throwing some ideas out there. It'd be nice if it emulated the Disk ][ card so that I could use it as a drop in replacement - is there any easily accessible docs for that? -- Pat

22 years, 2 months

New Museum Finds for the Week

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> 1. Tandy Portable wordprocessor WP-2 with the manual. I bought one of these New on closeout, boy what a waste of money since I've never really used it. I've even got the cassette recorder and cable to hook it up. > 2. A AlphaSmart Pro wordprocessor like the WP-2 except it links up to > PC's, Mac's and IIGS's using cables. Actually the WP-2 should link up with anything with a serial port, if it's got a comm program with the right protocol. I did this once, it was a royal pain as I recall. Zane

22 years, 2 months

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test-drb April 2002