test-drb April 2004

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by cb＠mythtech.net

>"CUDA" doesn't mean anything by itself. It's not an >Acronym. > >It is a shortening of "Barracuda". > >The main chip in the Mac that controls the >Clock/Calendar, PRAM, and some of the I/O is called >the Barracuda chip. > >It was a question on my Apple Certified Technician >Test. Wow... ok. I guess that is one of those things they throw in to make sure you purchased their training guide. I've NEVER seen that info ANYWHERE before. I 100% believe it, but I suspect the only place that tidbit is available would be in the tech training. Thanks for solving that mystery for me. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 8 months

Byte Sieve of Eratosthenes Results?

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 19:57 -0500 4/22/04, Dave Dunfield wrote: >I happen to have an August 1983 BYTE magazine in front of me, which >has an artical entitled "Comparing C Compilers for CP/M-86" in which >they use the Sieve as one of their main benchmarks. ... Dave, thanks very much for the kind offer! I was mainly after two aspects of the original article(s). 1) The listing of the program, in many different languages (I seem to recall Forth, Basic, C, possibly others) and 2) The extremely wide range of performances turned in by different computer/language combinations, ranging from TRS-80 basic up to (IIRC) Cray or something on that order. So the C benchmarks, while interesting, aren't really what I'm after. The whole discussion came up because I was trying to explain to the kids what an "algorithm" is. -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967

20 years, 8 months

Nearly on topic-ish. Digital HiNote VP laptop

by witchy＠binarydinosaurs.co.uk

Folks, Discovered I had said old machine in storage the other day and I thought it'd make a neat little webserver for when I'm away from home working and will have nothing better to do than PHP hacking. First time I powered up it sprang to life but locked up because the CMOS battery (non-standard dammit) is obviously flat. Subsequent powerups with or without battery installed (you can replace the floppy drive with a dedicated AC input) result in a beep and pretty much nothing else. Anyone come across these wee beasties before? Aside from when they were new, obviously :o) cheers -- Adrian/Witchy Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(

20 years, 8 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 8, Issue 45

by mtapley＠swri.edu

20 years, 8 months

Available: DEC LA120 printer

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

> From: "Antonio Carlini" <arcarlini(a)iee.org> > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 > X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > > All Rights Reserved | My VAX | an unnatural belief that we're > > above Nature & > > www.rddavis.org | runs VMS & | her other creatures, using > > dogma to justify such 410-744-4900 | doesn't crash!| beliefs > > and to justify much human cruelty. > > Fractures sigs too :-) No, Antonio, it's your fucking shitty M$ Outcrook that fractures sigs. RDD's sig looks the way it's supposed to on my VT320 using a standard text mail program that doesn't stick its nose where it doesn't belong distorting ARPA Internet text mail messages. MS P.S. Sorry everyone for blowing my safety valve, and in particular no offense intended to Antonio, you've done some incredibly wonderful things, but it just pisses me off to no end when a presumed Classic computist uses M$ Outcrook for ClassicCmp mail rather than a proper text mail client on a text terminal.

20 years, 8 months

Time article about Jobs

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Jobs met Wozniak when he was still in high school (introduced to each >other by Bill Fernandez). Wasn't it Jobs who got the job for Woz at >Atari? I wasn't sure when they met, but I did seem to recall that Jobs did get Woz the Atari job. Wasn't that where Jobs was working, and they wanted to design a handheld game, and Jobs got Woz to do it, and he did it so well, Atari couldn't figure out exactly how he did it. Or am I mixing up another incident (or possibly even an urban legend) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 8 months

Time article about Jobs

by evan947＠yahoo.com

Time Magazines calls him "the force behind the Macintosh"... I wonder what Jef Raskin would make of that comment. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/16/jobs/

20 years, 8 months

Otrona Attache Boot Disks

by design3d＠fuse.net

Hello, I have an Otrona with 5 1/4" disk drives. Problem is that I don't have the boot disks for the machine. I wondered if you send me a copy if you still have them. What would you charge for them? I would appreciate any help you could provide. Thank you, Don Radford, Cincinnati, Ohio

20 years, 8 months

From alt.sys.pdp11 -- PDP-11's in SoCal need rescue from scrapper!

by wmaddox＠pacbell.net

I saw the following posted on alt.sys.pdp11: [from Jeff Davis <jdavisgoogle(a)soupwizard.com>] Hi, I frequent the University of California - Santa Barbara surplus store and noticed they have the following PDP stuff that is heading for the scrap heap this week unless someone comes and buys it (and considering that the alternative is scrap prices, it'll probably go cheap): (from memory, so it's probably 85% accurate): - 4 waist-high 19" racks containing the PDP stuff. - 2 each PDP-11/23 rackmounted - 2 each PDP-11/73 rackmounted - at least 4 RL02 drives - a couple or more RC25 (I think) cartridge drives - other random equipment that I can't identify - 2 Decwriter line printers/consoles - A big push cart full of (looks like unused) RL02 packs and RC25 carts. - RSX manuals and a bunch of other documents All this stuff came from an installation that was finally turned off, so it looks complete. I'd get it for myself, but I just do not have room. If you're in the Santa Barbara / Los Angeles area and are going to pick this stuff up and need a hand, let me know. CONTACT: UCSB Central Stores (805) 893-2732 jeff.goldmann (the at symbol) stores. ucsb. edu

20 years, 8 months

CUDA Switch

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

"CUDA" doesn't mean anything by itself. It's not an Acronym. It is a shortening of "Barracuda". The main chip in the Mac that controls the Clock/Calendar, PRAM, and some of the I/O is called the Barracuda chip. It was a question on my Apple Certified Technician Test. - Al __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash

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