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(...) What demand? Intel and MS _created_ much of todays' demand for computing. They did this to make money. Why do you think another software company other than MS would have been any better? I know you're intelligent, so I'm not prepared to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: learning languages (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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(...) FORTRAN in the same sentence as clean and efficient, without a negative. *shakes head* must be a misparse. Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, there's the cause for your stability: Who would want to use a server named barney? ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Uptime wars! barney:/etc$ uptime 9:31pm up 96 days, 9:27, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01 barney:/etc$ Jasper (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, it would have been a hell of a lot easier, given that you at elast have homogeneous address space. But you do need to rewrite the kernel to be able to access it at all, and we all know how fast MS is at that sorta thing.. (...) And (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You realise what the cost differential you're talking about is, don't you? If IBM had used 68k rather than x86, there's a much better chance today the lucky few would have macs, rather than everybody and his dog having a PC. (...) Yeah. I (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Looking for a simple Time Program
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(...) Come to think of it, a flying microwave oven while still plugged in will cause heat to be generated -- thus it's a thermo-nuclear ballistic weapon. And, if you toss it across the peaks of the Ural Mountains, it becomes an intercontinental (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't have source to LEdit either, but I used to write CAD software for a living around that time. We used all sorts of colormap manipulating tricks to speed up the rendering. These tricks just don't work in fixed color modes. You have to (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks! I did a search earlier today and didn't come up with the above post. Now at least I know you're talking about. :') (...) Actually, its a nuclear ballistic weapon :') (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That's a good suggestion. Especially because it's something I can make LDAO do. As opposed to some really nifty suggestions I've received which would require changing LDLite, or would be so processing-intensive that they aren't practical. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, at this point I'll have to take your word for it. The segmented address still seems like a high price to pay for a half-register. (...) Maybe this is the case in LEdit -- I don't have knowledge of that source code. But in LDraw, the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Perhaps you're right, but that jump instruction is relative to the Instruction Pointer which uses a full register. The segmented way you are relative to a segment which only uses half a register. You can take advantage of this half register (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I ran across it doing an analysis of the "What happened?" thread in lugnet.off-topic.debate -- very very very early in the thread in fact. (URL) still makes me smirk -- I've never thought of using a microwave as a ballistic weapon. :-D (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That would work except that trying to turn wind-up timers wearing gloves is very difficult. :') (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Geez, I barely remember a microwave comment. I don't even remember the context. But it seems to be haunting me this week. :') (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cool. I'll have one for you by the end of today (MDT :-). Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) bell, (...) Excellent, that would be great!! Thanks!! (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ed, I take it you've overcome your microwave-throwing tendencies...? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) No -- with an Applet. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Would it be possible to do this in straight HTML, using the refresh meta-tag to forward through several pages? Steve (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll let you borrow my microwave oven. It can be programmed in a timer mode, with several steps in the program. But you have to have it back before dinnertime! Steve (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) OK, relative-addressing mode is good. But it doesn't require segmented memory. All it requires is an instruction format with a defined result. For example, the conditional-jump instructions on the 6502 microprocessor[1] only used relative (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There are many different types of algorithms, I believe, but the main point is that the Message-ID header needs to be unique. The domain part of the Message-ID makes sure that anybody on a different domain gets a different ID. The local part (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It is assigned by the newsserver to which you post. The Heder fields from your message, divided into first things you do have to provide: (...) (okay, this one's a special case - Lugnet innd has been modified to auto-insert this one - on most (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ahh, simple: Buy two 4-minute repeating wind-up timers. Start one, wait 60 seconds, then start the other. There you have it. :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This should be very easy to implement (1). I could whip one up in Java for ya, so you can run it anywhere you have a browser and a connection to the Net. Cheers, - jsproat 1. Assuming you don't want any features put in. I am a card-carrying (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm looking for a simple timer program. What I want is a simple timer that will time rounds (as in boxing) to use when I work out at home. It simply needs to ring the "bell" at the beginning and end of rounds: 3 minutes - bell, 1 minute - bell, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Relative pointers in the same segment take up half as much space as a 32 bit pointer. Depending on what you're doing, the savings here can be considerable. .COM programs used nothing but relative pointers and fit in less than 1 64K segment. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Lately when I run scandisk on my 6 Gig hard drive it errors out with "One or more drives could not successfully complete." The same happens with scandisk long or short. I am guessing that I have a bad sector on my drive? Can someone make a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) How did the segmented architecture enable the creation of tiny programs? (...) So? This is SVGA, and most video cards seem to not offer 4-bit color modes in resolutions above 800x600. So LDraw will happily work in modes that most video cards (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I do, quite regularly. Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 5. The last reboot was about two weeks ago when I upgraded from SP3 to SP5; before then, my workstation was up for about three weeks. I have a cow-orker who's had Linux up without a reboot (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I've been running Emacs on a P150 system with 643MB harddisk for three years now. That's smaller than a CD, right? Or were you refering to transporting the Emacs sources on a CD? I've used a set of 1440KB disks to do that. I needed eight (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Don Heyse wrote in message ... (...) What, Eighteen Megs And Constantly Swapping? Ever tried putting emacs on anything smaller than a CD? (...) Apparently the latest Caldera is quite good for that - all-GUI install, no reboots and autodetection of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A little exercise every day should take care of that, Lar. :-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) CP/M, I think. My TRS 80 model 1 which used an OS (called DOS)(1) which was CP/M derived, had it. 1 - once you started running the floppy. Before that you were just in the ROM BASIC interpreter all the time. I had 2 floppies. 11 hundred bucks (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wait a minute. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but the segmented memory architecture allowed you to create absolutely *tiny* programs that did wonderful things. And you could fit tons of these programs on an affordable *floppy* disk. I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And why did IBM stick all the ROM and system stuff in high memory (>640K), rather than low memory? If they had done that, it would have been (more) possible to extend the address space without totally losing backwards compatibility. Or if (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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[removed lugnet.off-topic.debate from crosspost list] (...) I'd say, back in 1983, the lack of virtual memory and the 640KB limit was no big deal (in the PC industry). By 1989, it was becoming unfortunate. By 1991, it was getting really bad. And by (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The 1000-line limit in LEdit was a programming limitation. Nothing to do with anything evil in the OS, unless you consider lack of virtual memory evil (rather than just bad). Was the 8.3 file format originated with MS or DOS? I thought it was (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Perl taint checking and CGI
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Hey Perl fans, Does anyone use the taint checking features of Perl for CGI scripts? Is the only way to turn it on with the -T command-line option? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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