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On April 19, John Allain wrote:
> > Why do people use PeeCees, again? Pathetic, indeed.
>
> I encoded some family geneology into set of frame HTML
> pages once. It turned out to be something line 600 small html
> files, 300 KBytes or so. When I went to put it on a floppy, it
> took over 30 Minutes to write!
>
> Pathetique!
So everyone's complaining about PeeCees, but some people are still
using them. THIS is what I don't understand.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
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On April 20, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> > My mistake...it was my impression that z/Architecture is very similar
> > to that of ESA/390, more so than the other evolutionary steps in the
> > S/360->S/390 family architectures.
>
> 64-bit addressing, twice as many instruction formats. That's a pretty big
> change. The change from ESA/370 to ESA/390 wasn't that drastic.
Ok, I must've been thinking of something else. The original point
stands, however, that these are mainframe architectures.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
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Hello,
I'm trying to install Warp 3 Connect on my 9577 from floppies. I made
the floppies from the cd-rom, but when I try to install it, I don't get
the network options to choose. It's as if I didn't even have a network
card installed. I have a 3Com 3C529-TP
Does it have to be installed by cd-rom to get network support? The
manual doesn't seem to mention floppies, only the cd-rom.
Help!!!
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
On April 20, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> > Umm, I have to disagree with you there...the machines in question are
> > indeed of a mainframe architecture, and some IBMers were calling them
> > "servers" many years before the zSeries was even an itch in IBM's
> > pants.
>
> That's a mighty big itch.
Yes.
> > Regardless of what industry buzzwords the marketroids are trying to
> > take advantage of...those machines implement the S/390 architecture,
> > which is a mainframe architecture descended from mainframe
> > architectures.
>
> Actually, those machines don't implement ESA/390. They implement z/Arch.
> But z/Arch definitely evolved from ESA/390 R4.
My mistake...it was my impression that z/Architecture is very similar
to that of ESA/390, more so than the other evolutionary steps in the
S/360->S/390 family architectures.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > Try MSNBC.
>
> I find their journalism a bit too yellow too. I tend to
> watch the BBC world news.
I used to prefer ITN World News, with Daljit Daliwahl,
but lately, it's not being carried locally. And I can't
seem to find the streaming version on their web site...
-dq
Hi everybody,
I may have a line on a couple of (probably not yet on topic)
coke machine sized AS/400s in the Champaign area. I don't
think I have space for them, but I'd like not to see them get
ruined.
Please let me know if anyone would be interested in these things.
I'd like to have some people I could point them to who'd be willing
to take these either for some cost or not (depends on the guy who's
got the systems...), and save them from being shredded. :)
Don't know anything else at this point.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
On April 19, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> HOT day here, musta been rambling, although I'm not sure they even classify
> the 390 as a mainframe - most literature and such refers to it as a server.
The do indeed classify the S/390 as a mainframe...because, well,
that's what it is. :-)
The 390 architecture is an evolution of, and is largely compatible
with, the S/370 family and related architectures...which (as far as I
know, I'm not a mainframe expert..yet!) started with the S/360 back in
the 1960s.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:17:46AM -0500, Doc wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, John Allain wrote:
> >
> > > I encoded some family geneology into set of frame HTML
> > > pages once. It turned out to be something line 600 small html
> > > files, 300 KBytes or so. When I went to put it on a floppy, it
> > > took over 30 Minutes to write!
> >
> > OK. This is completely off topic, but it has bugged me for years.
> > You guys are more likely to know, and care, than any other forum I hang
> > in. I use a Linux PC as my daily workstation, file server, DNS, MOP
> > server, etc. Given hardware limitations, it's stable enough.
> >
> > I can start a lowlevel format on a floppy, go and surf the net, read
> > my email, compile software, or play a game while (45-75 secs) that happens.
> > Do that in Win<anyversion> on the same hardware, and I might as well
> > go make coffee. Same comparison applies to printing large documents.
> > WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive takes ALL of a
> > 1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!
>
> I remember this behaviour from Windows 3.1 - format a floppy and you
> might as well go grab a book. Enter OS/2: start formatting a floppy and
> do something else on the machine until it is done (which didn't take
> long). I suppose that:
> - since Windows 3.1 couldn't do real (preemptive) multitasking (only
> cooperative), it basically stopped everything else,
> - this code was carried through to whatever flavour of Windows is sold
> currently (hell, I had system error boxes with the Windows 3.1 widget
> set pop up at me on some lusers Win9X machines),
I can cut/copy text from any GIU program and paste into any text window.
I can cut/copy text from any text windows into any GUI program.
I can format floppies while running IE5.5, Outlook98, and OE5.5, with a
Modula-2 programming environment running and a copy of the CDC 6000
emulator running the Chippewa Operating System.
Under Windows 2000. On an 800MHz P-III w/256MB of RAM. Not a killer
machine.
Windows sucks for anough real reasons that it's really not necessary
to perpetuate myths and half-truths....
Ok, My Milage May Vary... -dq
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zane H. Healy [mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com]
> >when Warp came out. It was so cool to be able to play a
> game while using
> >Prodigy on my Hayes Smartmodem 2400 at the same time.
> >
> >Peace... Sridhar
> I see I wasn't the only one doing that :^) I also liked
> being able to cut
Careful, or you'll be setting around in a storage locker, writing
BASIC programs on your PC Junior before you know it ;)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
