From caveguy@sbcglobal.net Tue May 15 15:59:40 2007
From: caveguy@sbcglobal.net
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: WAS: Nice PC-museum..
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:59:40 -0400
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On 15 May 2007 10:35:15 -0700, Geoff Reed wrote:

>although I don't remember the Z-80 being a clone of the 8085 CPU like the au=
thor
>of that site claims.  (or has my memory gone faulty?)

I have heard before from those who equate the entire Intel 808x family as a c=
lass.=20
>From their perspective the Z-80 was designed around and expanded upon the 80=
80 instruction set licenced=20
>from Intel!=20
The deal gave 8080 programmers a second source, which raised the credibility =
of the instruction set
against the Motorola 6800 family.=20
Motorola ended up cutting their own deal providing AMD trading some VMOS memo=
ry masks for the 68xx=20
mask set, which they both second sourced for each other to a set of common cu=
stomers who demanded a=20
second source be available before they would finalize a design.

I agree Clone might not be the correct word choice, but by todays business st=
andards is not that far off the=20
mark.

As to the website in question, a quick look revealed it has not been updates =
in years, I am personally=20
thankful that this person was just enough of a geek to have built a nice hobb=
y page. but how managed to=20
keep it unnoticed ?=20

This raises the question of "how much unnoticed?", I ran the page title and m=
eta content into YGAMS and=20
came up with some very interesting footprint info. (see YGAMS.COM for the cur=
rent beta and examples of=20
the internet footprinting tool)

>From page header
        <title>My Virtual PC Museum</title>
        <meta content=3D"John B. Sandlin" name=3D"Author" />
        <meta content=3D"07/15/2002 PCs I've Owned" name=3D"Description" />
        <meta content=3D"John Sandlin" name=3D"Keywords" />

 "John B Sandlin" came up as a known with a YGAMS of ~253=20
The Title "My Virtual PC Museum" only hit ~ 2 on this side of never seen !
and  "07/15/2002 PCs I've Owned" ~ 0 proves this has never been indexed.

It looks to me that these pages have been unseen and hiding for many years be=
hind more than just robots.txt=20
files. Believe me a YGAMS of 0 is almost impossible to maintain once somethin=
g has been published and=20
indexed gets indexed by someone!

There is little question this is fresh meat, none of the search engines have =
seen it YET, but that could =20
change as soon as this mutterings got indexed, if I had but included a link t=
o the page in question.

BTW: Does anone here know who this is ?

Back to my rat-killen, I have wasted enough time today muttering :)

Bob Bradlee

I am still trying to get my head around the fact that this email may violate =
6 or more software patents...
Just in its transmission, not including any possible problems someone might h=
ave with it's content !

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