HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Wireless Ethernet
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:30:38 GMT


I'd appreciate it if someone could point me toward either a group where I
can find out about wireless ethernet or toward info about wireless
ethernet directly.  

My office would like to establish an ethernet link with another office
across the road, but based on several terrain factors, trenching to lay in
ethernet cable would be prohibitively expensive.  If wireless ethernet is
secure, can operate at a decent baud rate, and is not extremely expensive,
we'd like to know about it.
Newsgroups: comp.misc,biz.misc,comp.infosystems,comp.databases,comp.sys.cdc
From: dalk@login.dkuug.dk (Lars Kalsen)
Subject: PRO-IV Questions
Organization: DKnet
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:06:22 GMT



Happy New Year ! - I try once again.

I am looking for information about a 4GL language from McDonnell Douglas
which is called PRO-IV. We have an application build in this language
that we might skip now but I would like to know a little more about the
language. 

So - if your are working with applications in PRO-IV or
know someone who is - please E-mail me information on

       - what kind of application you know - or have heard about.
       - information about the future for the language.
       - knowledge about how to manage applications in PRO-IV.
       - opinions about the language.

and maybe more.

All answers are appreciated - the MUST be someone using PRO-IV on the net.

Greetings from Denmark

Lars Kalsen



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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: cecchi@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi)
Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:57:13 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

>Oh, Wow,  You'd never guess I wasen't a geography major.  Ah soo, not NY
>but Minnesota ...  Well,  It's still too d*mn cold up there :) :) :)!

>SYSTEM development?  Low level stuff?

Well, I am doing circuit design for VLSI chips. Others are doing logic design,
designing I/O controllers, designing all the memory cards, doing the operating
system, the data base system, the diagnostics, writing the manuals etc.  So far
as I know we do almost everything here, except token ring cards come from Network
Systems division, and compilers come from Toronto, eh.

And also here in Rochester, Mn.  we have a group on from ADSTAR designing the best, densest,
most reliable small disk drives made.  Want a 2G 3.5"?  They will be happy to
sell you some at a very competetive price.  

So I guess the answer is yes, SYSTEM development Low Level, High Level.  I was
kidding about the 100 people, it is more than 2000 people doing development.  I
am told that if ABS (thats us) was an independent company we would be the second
largest computer company in the world.  I don't know if that is true, but it
could be.  

Sorry I know nothing about prices.  It does get a little cold up here.
"40 below keeps out the riff-raff" :-)  

-- 

Del Cecchi  
cecchi@rchvmx.vnet.ibm.com
My opinions only
From: gucpe@gd.chalmers.se (Peter Gustafsson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Campus resellers of UNIX-workstations?
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:19:28 GMT
Organization: Gothenburg Universities Computing Centre
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Hi, 
anyone got experience of Campus resellers of UNIX-workstations?
I know that both Sun and DEC has programs (Sun Campus Dealer/DEC
Campus Reseller).

How usual is it that you can buy workstations in a on-campus shop?
Is it a good way to buy cheap WS? How about service/demos/prices?

Can you direct me to persons working whit this?

Please respond by mail...

      Peter Gustafsson
      gucpe@gd.chalmers.se

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From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Manual/info for Franklin?
Date: 25 Dec 1992 22:01:23 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Does anyone know of the Franklin computer?
It seems to be a basic machine, not too much unlike a Commodore 64.

I'm looking for a copy of the manual(s) that go with it, and any
sources of info available.

Thanks in advance.  Happy New Year!
Regards.
$$/
From: mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil (Chris McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: 10 Sector 2S/2D Disks for Swap
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:11:16 GMT
Reply-To: mccormac@pooh.usafa.af.mil
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.


   I recently acquired a case of 260 Verbatim disks in pristine condition.  Only
3 or 4 look like they have ever left their jacket.  Since I don't have any use
for hard sectored diskettes, I would like to trade them for almost anything with
someone who can give them a good home.
						Chris McCormack
						mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil
From: broberts@wpi.WPI.EDU (broberts)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Help Needed finding info on Internet!!
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:40:09 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


	Hi, I'm new to the Internet, and the amount of information
	seems overwhelming! Can anyone help me find some online
	information about computers or any other interesting
	sutff. Thanks alot!
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: "Codex" 9600 bps modem
From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:53:58 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Jonathan Hendry (tjhendry@mcs.drexel.edu) wrote:
>I have a chance to buy a "Codex" 9600 bps modem for $25. Apparently,
>it's some sort of mainframe data modem.

>Has anybody on the net used one of these? If you have and could supply
>me with some sort of information about them, I'd be grateful.

>I am especially looking for information about cabling, dialing,
compatibility.

Codex modems are made by Motorola if my memory serves me correctly. Chances
are what is being offered here is a synchronous leased-line modem. Now if
you have a leased line and a host that wants to talk sync, that's great. But
if you want to dialup and talk async, it's a WOMBAT.

--
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                               Voice: +64 (3) 3852101
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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Manual/info for Franklin?
Date: 27 Dec 92 20:07:34 GMT
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ

[Yikes! I posted a reply with my phone number instead of the real
phone number. Not a real problem but....! Anyway, this is a repost
and let's hope the cancel actually worked.]

In article <9212260404.AA19479@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
: Does anyone know of the Franklin computer?
: It seems to be a basic machine, not too much unlike a Commodore 64.

Franklin Computer used to make an Apple II clone. Is that the
machine you have? I don't know if they made any other sort of
machine.

: I'm looking for a copy of the manual(s) that go with it, and any
: sources of info available.

Well, as an Apple II clone, many of the manuals that apply to the
one will apply to the other. Also, at least until a year or so (I
haven't asked anyone recently), Franklin was still supporting
their machines; you may be able to find out something from them.
Their phone number is 609 261 4800. Nowadays, though, they're
Franklin Electronic Publishers, so don't be surprised if they
answer the phone that way.

---
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bill@twwells.com
From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:24:15 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

In article <1992Dec22.164247.9481@ksmith.uucp> keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
>Oh, Wow,  You'd never guess I wasen't a geography major.  Ah soo, not NY
>but Minnesota ...  Well,  It's still too d*mn cold up there :) :) :)!
>
>SYSTEM development?  Low level stuff?

The AS/400 line is done in Rochester ... lock, stock, and barrel.  
Hardware, microcode, OS, etc.
From: vnoble@dhvx20.csudh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Software development in Russia?
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:36:54 GMT
Organization: CSU, DOMINGUEZ HILLS


Hi out there in NETland!

I am contemplating investing some money in software development in Russia and
selling it here in US.  It seems to be a good idea since software is a heavily
labor-consuming product with little hardware investment required to start it
out.  As you know, Russia now has a lot of skillful mathematicians, physisists
and programmers who are actively seeking an opportunity to earn any hard
currency.  With exchange rate at rediculously low level and the cost of labor
which is THE cheapest in the world, Russia looks like a heaven for software
development.  Besides, I was born there and lived there until about 5 years
ago, so it is reletively easy for me to establish right contacts.

I would like to solicit your opinion on the following matter.  Short time ago I
encountered an ad of a Russian software company offering different products such
as computer graphics, PC games, learning packages for children with game
elements, and so on.  My question is: Can I try to become a distributor of
their products in US and what kind of agreements are generally required? If I 
had a distribution or licencing agreement with those guys, how would I go
about selling this stuff here? Is there a market for, say, PC games or 
learning packages?  How can I interest big software resellers like CompUSA
or Egghead to carry them? Unfortunately, I do not have any experience in
selling software, so any info on this will be highly appreciated.

You can E-mail me at Vnoble@dhvx20.csudh.edu.

Thank you for taking time to read this.

Vladimir Noble
From: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Could use help with Modem
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:06:18 GMT
Reply-To: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.


This is the only comp. group I have access to, so apologies if some of
the net.police think this post is inappropriate.

I recently purchased and installed an internal ZOOM V42bis Faxmodem. 
It apparently is more senstitive to line noise than my old 2400 card
when I am accessing boards with old modems (such as my host here).
 
I am already using the commands to force a 2400baud no protocol
connection and am still getting noise.  I do not think it is the house
wiring because my roomate attempted the same connection with his high
speed modem without any problems.

I could use some suggestions on how to reduce this annoying quirk of
progress.

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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: williams@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Mike Williams)
Subject: Re: PBS and PROCITE information
Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:48:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.100552.127@vms.huji.ac.il> goren@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
>Hello!
>     I need information on company named PBS (probably  american company
>dealing with computers or software) and software called PROCITE.
>    thanks
>      S.GOREN
I have been using PROCITE for several years and, despite remarks
included below, am quite happy with it.  It is put out by
Personal Bibliographic Software Inc
P.O. Box 4250
Ann Arbor Michigan 48106
USA
(313) 996 - 1580
FAX: (313) 996-4672

I started using it to keep track of an extensive microfilm collection
but I have used it to track my own library, a research collection
of old letters (of Charles Babbage and his friends) and a growing
collection of photocopies and clippings.  It provides good searching
facilities and good formatting of various bibliographic forms for
different journals etc.  It is one of the packages that I tend to
use for many different kinds of searching and storing of information.
If a student comes to ask for information on a particular topic, the
first thing I do is check my PROCITE database.
  The big problem I have with it is that the information is stored
in a strange format that I find difficult to deal with outside of
the PROCITE system.  I wish they had a spell checker built in - the
file format makes it almost impossible to use standard spell checkers
such as those available in various word processors - you can dump out
an ASCII version, run that through a spell checker, then reimport it
into PROCITE, but it is a pain.
  They publish a newsletter that comes every few months, but it
usually deals with stuff I don't care about.
  I hope this helps.
Mike Williams
williams@cpsc.ucalgary,ca
From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Manual/info for Franklin?
Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:57:41 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

T. William Wells said:
>
>[Yikes! I posted a reply with my phone number instead of the real
>phone number. Not a real problem but....! Anyway, this is a repost
>and let's hope the cancel actually worked.]

Must've worked, Bill, 'cause I didn't see any other from you...  ;-)

Summing up the responses, the Franklin is said to be an Apple II clone,
and that those manuals and cards would be relevant, at least up to
a year ago.  Also that Apple sued Franklin and shut them down.
I'll try the 1 (609) 261-4800 number to get my hands on the manuals.

Thanks all, and regards.
$$/
From: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: If you have an EVEREX modem please read
Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:38:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu




i have an everex ev-920 1200 baud modem here.I have no documentation
though since i bought it used.
If you have one,and have docs,please leave me mail as I need to know how
to set it up and use it.
Thanks
Rob
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: jon@sparcplug.iupui.edu (Jon Burgoyne)
Subject:  Info on ViewSonic 1 or 6
Reply-To: jon@cnc.iupui.edu
Organization: Purdue University - School of Engr. and Tech.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:55:51 GMT

Seeking the Wisdom of the Net,

Looking for source of info (service, schematics, etc.) for either/both of
these ViewSonic Monitors.

Any help appreciated, please respond by e-mail.

Jon Burgoyne 
Purdue University - Indianapolis
jon@cnc.iupui.edu
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: Re: SPECmarks....
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: 25 Dec 92 15:22:36

    50 MHz PowerPC 601 Processor  Integer Performance= 40
				  Floating-Point Performance= 60
    66 MHz PowerPC 601 Processor  Integer Perf.= 50
				  Floating P.= 80

    The claim that those figures are equivalent to the 66 MHz Pentium came
    forward. Can anyone expand on that and ellaborate on this matter?

These are probably -slower- than the 66 mhz Pentium.

MIPS (Meaningless Indicator of Processing Speed) is a pretty loosely
defined quantity, hence the existence of specmarks.  But nowadays
usually 1 specmark = about 1.5 mips according to most people's
measurement of mips.  This is peculiar because a VAX 11/780,
supposedly a 1 mip machine, runs (by definition) 1.00000 specmarks.

Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: Alpha benchmarks vs other
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:44:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.170625.20690@zooid.guild.org>
	kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:

>According to the July issue of "IEEE Spectrum," Digital's Alpha running at
>200 MHz produces 400 MIPS peak or 200 Mflops. IBM's RIOS (32-Bit) at 50 MHz
>produces 200 MIPS or 100 Mflops. I don't know why they include MIPS since
>there are a number of manufacturers who do not use this cathegory any more

Note that these are peak native MIPS, not the VAX MIPS which the dhrystone
benchmark reports.  The latter does have some use (it is reasonably well
correlated with performance on real integer applications, though not as well
as SPEC), the former has almost none.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Subject: Re: Alpha, RISC/6000, HP benchmarks
Reply-To: olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, NY
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:42:22 GMT

I wrote:

>Having just received a DEC 3000/400-AXP, I have had time to run one
>benchmark. This is written in C, and solves the lorenz equations
>using a Runge-Kutta 4 algorithm. Here are the CPU times, using the
>highest optimization level in each case, on some machines that we
>have:
>
>IBM RS6000-530H, AIX 3.2, XLF 2.2:		13.29 seconds
>VAX 4000-500, VMS 5.5-1, FORT 5.8:		 9.85 seconds
>HP 9000/720, HPUX 8.07:			 7.55 seconds
>DEC 3000/400, OpenVMS AXP 1.0, DEC C 1.1:	 2.79 seconds
>

The compiler for the RS6000 should have been XLC 1.2, not XLF 2.2. I
can also add a time for the RS6000-350: 10.74 seconds.

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: n2976@cray.com (Andrew T. Rodnite)
Subject: WANTED: INFORMIX Benchmark test suite
Reply-To: n2976@cray.com
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:39:21 CST

Hi,

	Does anybody know if there are any standard database benchmarks available
	for the INFORMIX database package?

							Thanks,
							Andrew Rodnite
							rodnite@clancy.cray.com
							(715) 726-5574

Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: wang@pdx122 (Wen-Hann Wang)
Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Computer Architecture Simulations, IJCS
Organization: Workgroup Computing Division
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:18:14 GMT


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	     *   Techniques for fast retargeting architecture simulation
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             *   Hardware-based techniques
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	     *   Trace selection and validation techniques.

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Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,news.answers
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: SPECmarks....
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:41:52 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <PHR.92Dec25152236@napa.telebit.com>
	phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:

>But nowadays
>usually 1 specmark = about 1.5 mips according to most people's
>measurement of mips.  This is peculiar because a VAX 11/780,
>supposedly a 1 mip machine, runs (by definition) 1.00000 specmarks.

A VAX 11/780 is closer to 1.2 specmarks.  A specmark is defined as a 780
with a particular set of compilers.  Newer compilers are better.

If you look at individual SPEC benchmarks, you'll find 50% differences in
the ratios for some machines.  I think the DEC Alpha ranges from 60 to 100
on the integer programs.  Why should the dhrystone test correlate any more
with the SPEC average than the SPEC tests themselves do?


--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: dbailey@wk49.nas.nasa.gov (David H. Bailey)
Subject: Inquiry about SPEC benchmarks
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18:48:42 GMT

I was looking at a listing of SPEC performance numbers for a
particular processor.  This list included such figures for "SPECfp89"
and "SPECfp92".  What is the difference between ..89 and ..92?  Are
the problem sizes different?

Please send replies directly to me.

David H. Bailey
dbailey@nas.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks