4 Feb
1999
4 Feb
'99
1:32 a.m.
>like burning diesel fuel. I HATE ATX.
Actually, I find it to be one of the most hilarious
pieces of poor
engineering in modern computers. ATX machines can switch off without any
good reason, refuse to turn on, refuse to boot, refuse to turn off, and
other things. If M$ designed a PSU, this would be it.
Sounds like ranting about good old big iron. When they introduced
the SVP (Service Processor) for /370ish SIEMENS mainframes there
have been similar problems - Machines tuned off without reason,
not able to turn on, etc. And since Big Iron is allways better
there have been additional sources of fun: machines that went
into debuging modes during normal work, machines that rebooted,
machines that got incompatible microcode loaded ... endless
source of fun.
The SVP was a microprocessor system that replaced the old
operation tables (for debugging) and the operator consoles,
so standard serial terminals where used, and the good old
single function buttons where replaced by cryptic commands
(did anybody say McUnix ?).
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK