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by manney＠nwohio.nwohio.com

> Not quite (at least for PS/2's). PS/2 models with a number lower than > 50 (ie, mods 25, 30, 35, 40) have an ISA (or is it EISA?) bus. 25 and 30 are ISA, anyway.

28 years, 3 months

Slipping sticks

by manney＠nwohio.nwohio.com

> Am I the only person > to have been brought up with a Keuffel & Esser ivory covered mahogany > rule? Also, what was the name of the manufacturer who made a bamboo core > rule? K&E made a bamboo one, too. (At least mine looks like bamboo -- it certainly isn't mahogany). I was told that bamboo has a low coefficient of linear expansion, which is why they used it. manney

28 years, 3 months

Slipping sticks

by manney＠nwohio.nwohio.com

> >Slide Rule Trading Post > >http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/slide/ > > > >On my site you will find a link to JavaSlide on the main menu. That's a > >JAVA slide rule I wrote some while back, so you can reminisc even if you > >can't find your old faithful. Its quite good, actually. It is -- vary well done! There are still people interested in them...I didn't know there were so many slipsticks around! (btw, I bought about 10 at an auction awhile back...still have a few left, sans cursors. Anyone want one?) manney(a)nwohio.com

28 years, 3 months

Microsoft OSes

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

First of all, did MS Xenix run on PC hardware? Secondly, was there ever a Windows NT 1.0 and 2.0? How did they compare to a cheap version of UNIX? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 3 months

Microsoft OSes

by bwit＠pobox.com

>The divergence from OS/2 and windows3.x was also influenced by MS getting >Cutler an OS heavy that created DEC RSX-11 and early VMS incantations. >the idea of NT was clean sheet 32bit OS with multitasking, multiprocessing >and inherant networking all of which were glueons for windows. OS/2 was >a different path from NT with a different base designer. It is interesting that many of the error messages in the pre V3.1 beta releases referred to OS/2. Maybe it was an almost clean room. bw

28 years, 3 months

PS/1 How Much?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/4/98 5:38:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, mallison(a)konnections.com writes: << PS/2 = MCA PS/1 = EISA Agreed?? -Mike >> nope. ps/2=some ISA and mostly MCA ps/1=ISA

28 years, 3 months

Video connectors (was: CGA Modes (Wuz: Win 3.0))

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<example, certainly is. I'm not saying we don't need 15 pins; I say we ne <15 THICKER pins, and since this connector is typically the only connecto <on the back of a VGA adapter, there's plenty of room. Par of the resoning was that it should have a connector that is not like any other. if it were a standard db9 or db15 you'd have people plugging into the serial port screaming it don't work. It's bad enough that you have people that will force things no matter what. Allison

28 years, 3 months

Microsoft OSes

by bwit＠pobox.com

>First of all, did MS Xenix run on PC hardware? Yes. >Secondly, was there ever a Windows NT 1.0 and 2.0? How did they compare >to a cheap version of UNIX? No, the first Windows NT was V3.1 which matched the current shipping version of Windows at that time. IMHO it was not even close to any reasonable version of Unix but was/is much easier to configure. Regards, Bob

28 years, 3 months

Microsoft OSes

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<NT prior to 3.x was called MS LAN Manager, and didn't compare particularl <well to anything. NT prior to NT wasn't. NT was a divergent design that is non dos filesystem. LANMAN is the networking component of WFW3.11. The divergence from OS/2 and windows3.x was also influenced by MS getting Cutler an OS heavy that created DEC RSX-11 and early VMS incantations. the idea of NT was clean sheet 32bit OS with multitasking, multiprocessing and inherant networking all of which were glueons for windows. OS/2 was a different path from NT with a different base designer. In reality NT is not a stand alone OS as it requires windows as the user interface wher OS/2 it was a add on. Also the roots for OS/2 go back further and it was the DOS replacement with all the things that DOS still does not have. Allison

28 years, 3 months

Microsoft OSes

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Kip Crosby [SMTP:engine@chac.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 2:16 PM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Re: Microsoft OSes > > NT prior to 3.x was called MS LAN Manager, and didn't compare particularly > well to anything. > Hmm, couple of misconceptions there. First off, LAN Manager was a network product, not an operating system. LanMan Server ran on top of OS/2 1.x, and LanMan clients were available for MS-DOS and OS/2. LAN Manager 1.x was an OEM product and was not sold by Microsoft. It was available as 3Com 3+Open, IBM LAN Server, etc. LAN Manager 1.x was a first generation product, but LAN Manager 2.x performed well and was the first network product to capture significant market share away from NetWare, where many others had previously failed. LAN Manager 2.x was also the first network server sold directly by Microsoft. Kai

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