4 May
2016
4 May
'16
12:13 p.m.
I was skimming the Wikipedia article for tsx-plus, some of it seemed off to
me. Anyone know the facts for sure?
1) They suggest tsxplus generally didn't support more than 8 users
well. At my high school, we had 16 users on it constantly and it seemed to
perform very well. Anyone have experience along those lines?
2) They say LEX-11 (wordprocessing) was included. I don't believe so.
3) They say a spreadsheet program from Saturn Software was included. I
don't think so. Saturn had a wordprocessor, but it was a chargeable product
and I don't think S&H distributed it.
4) They say the latest version of TSX-Plus has TCP/IP support. That's
not true, at least not built in. There was a TCP/IP stack done by a 3rd
party (actually, think it was a person that ported one and put it in a
public contributed library) but that wasn't "included" by S&H.
Do I have those things wrong?
J
4 May
4 May
12:28 p.m.
On Jay West vs Wikipedia, always bet your money on Jay West
On May 4, 2016 15:13, "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I was skimming the Wikipedia article for tsx-plus,
some of it seemed off to
me. Anyone know the facts for sure?
1) They suggest tsxplus generally didn't support more than 8 users
well. At my high school, we had 16 users on it constantly and it seemed to
perform very well. Anyone have experience along those lines?
2) They say LEX-11 (wordprocessing) was included. I don't believe so.
3) They say a spreadsheet program from Saturn Software was included. I
don't think so. Saturn had a wordprocessor, but it was a chargeable product
and I don't think S&H distributed it.
4) They say the latest version of TSX-Plus has TCP/IP support. That's
not true, at least not built in. There was a TCP/IP stack done by a 3rd
party (actually, think it was a person that ported one and put it in a
public contributed library) but that wasn't "included" by S&H.
Do I have those things wrong?
J
12:43 p.m.
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Jason Scott wrote:
On Jay West vs Wikipedia, always bet your money on Jay
West
Wikipedia is an amateur effort, with some serious attempts to try to
reduce the errors. It is almost inevitable that somebody will declare
something to have been included if THEY had it, not even necessarily being
aware that they had a third party add-on.
User limits are assumed and often not correct. In the other direction, 30
years ago the college got a network system for PCs that "can handle
hundreds of users". I have no idea what the theoretical limit was (number
of bits in node numbers?) but we were the first to ever attempt 32, at
which point it took nothing to bring it to its knees.
On May 4, 2016 15:13, "Jay West" <jwest
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I was skimming the Wikipedia article for tsx-plus, some of it seemed off to
> me. Anyone know the facts for sure?
>
>
>
> 1) They suggest tsxplus generally didn't support more than 8 users
> well. At my high school, we had 16 users on it constantly and it seemed to
> perform very well. Anyone have experience along those lines?
>
> 2) They say LEX-11 (wordprocessing) was included. I don't believe so.
>
> 3) They say a spreadsheet program from Saturn Software was included. I
> don't think so. Saturn had a wordprocessor, but it was a chargeable product
> and I don't think S&H distributed it.
>
> 4) They say the latest version of TSX-Plus has TCP/IP support. That's
> not true, at least not built in. There was a TCP/IP stack done by a 3rd
> party (actually, think it was a person that ported one and put it in a
> public contributed library) but that wasn't "included" by S&H.
>
>
>
> Do I have those things wrong?
12:53 p.m.
On May 4, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at
xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Jason Scott wrote:
If you see an error in Wikipedia, the friendly answer is to fix the error, not to grumble
about it on mailing lists.
paul
On Jay West vs Wikipedia, always bet your money
on Jay West
Wikipedia is an amateur effort, with some serious attempts to try to reduce the errors.
1:09 p.m.
On Jay West vs Wikipedia, always bet your money on Jay
West
Wikipedia is an amateur effort, with some serious attempts to try to reduce
the errors. If you see an error in Wikipedia, the friendly answer
is to fix the error, not to grumble about it on mailing lists.
Ah, but Jay was responsible enough to ask his peers for confirmation
before he asserted his information.
I made a few corrections a while back about the history of the West Coast
Computer Faire, including the dates of some of the shows that occurred
after the stated ending date, and deleting the statement that said that
WCCF BECAME Comdex.
2:07 p.m.
On Wednesday (05/04/2016 at 02:13PM -0500), Jay West wrote:
4) They say the latest version of TSX-Plus has TCP/IP support. That's
not true, at least not built in. There was a TCP/IP stack done by a 3rd
party (actually, think it was a person that ported one and put it in a
public contributed library) but that wasn't "included" by S&H.
I can't comment on what was included by S&H or not but I do remember
coming across this TCP/IP package for TSX-PLUS years ago,
http://shop-pdp.net/tshtml/tcpip.htm
This may be one of the 3rd party ones you are referring to.
Chris
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