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From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: Are Seagate hard drives any good ?
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 21:08:40 GMT

I had a Seagate 89 MB (don't remember the exact model number) that DIED
on me.  At the time, I didn't bother to back up my hard drive, so I lost
over 70 MB of stuff!  Fortunately they were mostly program files, and
nothing too important, but it was a major pain to get everything back.
I have heard mixed reports of Seagate drives.  I know LOTS of people who
have never had ANY problems with them.  However, mine did not last 6 months.
The Seagate was replaced by my vendor with a Fujitsu.  The Seagate was 
definately a better performer, but the Fujitsu lasted!
Now I have a computer with a Western Digital, and I would not go back to
either brand.

Just my $.02
Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
Subject: Re: Are Seagate hard drives any good ?
Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:17:02 GMT

From article <1992Aug11.175340.23145@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, by fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)):
> 
> 
> Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
> drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
> 
> To this date I would have sworn on a Seagate so I'd like to know if I
> have just been lucky. 
> 
> Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
> this dealers claim ?

	Although I have heard this as well, my St 4096 (84 meg SCSI) has not
even burped in the nearly 3 years that I've had it.  Before that, we've run
two 80 meg MFMs on a BBS for about 4 years with no problems whatsoever...

	Both of them also are/were cached with PCKwik...anyone know if
caching is good or bad for a HD?
 
 TTYL
 Chris

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From: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu (SPROLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Windows Accelerator cards
Keywords: Accelerator cards, windows
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:07:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: uflorida.36793
Reply-To: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4



What are the advantages to the Windows accelerator cards for SVGA?
I'm a novice beginning desktop publishing with high resolution scanned
images.  I am using a 386DX-33, 4 MB RAM, and Paradise Windows accelerator
with 1MB video memory. Is this too much hardware or just the beginning?
Thanks for replies, e mail and I'll post a printable summary.;)
Sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
From: rob%contempt%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (Rob Amos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: More colors in ACAD?
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:22:18 GMT
Reply-To: rob%contempt%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au
Organization: Rob's pit of despair   >:-(

In <1992Aug17.105514.18866@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> u7816004@cc.nctu.edu.tw writes:
>Hi, everybody :
>   I want to use more than 16 colors at the same time in Auto CAD, but it
>seems to fail. My computer is 486DX-33, SVGA, ET-4000, and ACAD R10. Does
>it need 8514A graphic card to use more than 16 colors? Or it is just a
>problem in configuration?
>   Any response or suggestion would be appreciated.

As far as I know, it's just a matter of using the VGA card manufacturer's
manual booklet (as supplied with the card and it's disk) for instructions
on how to set-up the driver in 256 colour mode to work with AutoCAD.

(Note: most of the VGA cards I have installed for use in AutoCAD 
machines have easy-to-follow instructions with SPECIFIC directions
about configuring the colours.  They usually also have directions
for things like WordPerfect, AutoCAD release 9, and others.)

I have done this 256 colour setup thing MANY times, so if you continue
to have problems, why not e-mail me the details, and I will try to help
out.

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From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Optimizing 386SX-16's for Windows
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:39:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

From article <1992Aug13.035324.24260@nntp.uoregon.edu>, by johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin):
> In article <Bsu89r.3K6@cs.dal.ca>, goldrick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Majeed  Goldrick) writes:
>>..... I would like to get them going on
>>some Windows applications....  The question is - how can I optimize
>>these machines for Windows at a reasonable price...
> 
> Doesn't the fact that you have to optimize the hardware to make a given
> piece of software run with acceptable speed raise questions ... perhaps
> the software in question is not the best answer to the problem!
> Especially when there are better solutions on the market.

Majeed Goldrick said the objective was to use "some Windows
applications."  I suppose the Windows applications in question have
capabilities that are not available in non-Windows versions.

Therefore what is needed is either:
   (1) non-Windows applications that are just as good, or
   (2) something faster than Windows that runs Windows apps.

Alternative 1 requires that we know what Windows apps are to be used
and why they're needed.

I don't think alternative 2 exists, but I could be wrong.  GEOS is
faster, but it only runs GEOS apps, and that's not the same thing.

By the way, my own interest in this is based on the fact that I'm
using an XT clone, so I can't run Windows 3.x at all, even slowly.  I
can run Windows 1.0 or 2.0, but that's useless (I think).  It would
be nice to be able to run Windows 3.x apps on my system.

> Please, I am interested in discussions on this, but send your flames
> to /dev/null.

Right on.  Light is good, heat is bad.

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Keywords: Unknown
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 14:13:47 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:

> Here a few summary points about BIOS:

> - BIOS is a pig,
> - BIOS is a pig,
> - BIOS is a pig and
> - BIOS is a pig.
NO NO! It's a great bootstrap loader (if you forget a few bugs) which is used
by all operating systems to load the kernel and it is ignored forever after
that.

>    - MSDOS has got the worst Memory manager,
Gee, I didn't knew that MooSe-DOS had ANY memory manager...

>CONCLUSION:

>  Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
>nothing beats UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
Oh come on! You wouldn't want Microsoft to do that! You'd get something like
Windows/NT... ;-)

BTW, good point, UNIX *WAS* implemented properly. I don't think SYSVr4 is that
proper anymore.

>If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
>32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.
Why bother with an old program loader when there are FREE (or cheap) UNIX
implementations availlable right now. Tune in on comp.os.linux and find out
about this wonderful free UNIX clone. It has X-Windows, GCC 2.2.2, SCSI
support, virtual terminals, UUPC, and almost everything but networking.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
From: bq274@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andy J. Berkvam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Advice REQUESTED!
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:19:25 GMT
Reply-To: bq274@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andy J. Berkvam)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) says:

>I just purchased my first IBM-compat (X-Amiga owner) and I am looking
>for recommendations on what I should look for as far as useful utilities
>in the PD FTP archives.  I'm looking for unix-like commands for DOS
>(ie: move, ls, etc...) as well as any nifty things for Windows.
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  THE ftp site for MS-Windows is ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It's mirrored on
wuarchive.wustl.edu under the directory /mirrors/win3.  It has a ton
of MS-Windows 3.x stuff.  The first file you download should be
BW2-31-2.ZIP.  It's a Window's Write file with a review of the major
program classes.

Good luck,
Andy

-- 
Andy Berkvam                          |  Few are wholly dead:
U of Wisconsin - Stevens Point        |  Blow on a dead man's embers
Cleveland Freenet: bq274              |  And a live flame will start.
Internet: be215634@uwspmail.uwsp.edu  |                -Robert Graves
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gan@sample-o.eng.ohio-state.edu 
Subject: X Window for PC ?
Keywords: X, PC
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 12:42:59 GMT

I am wondering if there is any ftp sites that has X Windowing systems for PC ?
If there is what is it called ?  Hoping that the archie on my site can find it.
Thanks in advance for any response/comments.


--
From: dao4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DONALD A. O'SHALL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Date: 22 Aug 92 12:53:38 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Aug21.201734.20379@PA.dec.com>, reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim R
eisert) writes:
>
>I understand the differences between Shareware, Freeware and true
>public-domain software.  My main concern is this:
>
>People ask for recommendations of shareware to do a job.  It seems to
>me that some piece of commercial software might do the job also.  For
>example, "Please point me at a PD Fortran compiler".  Now I don't know
>of too many PD Fortran compilers, certainly no free ones, but I'm sure
>there are at least several in the commercial market.  So why ask only
>about PD Fortran compilers?  Either the person has another source of
>information about commercial software (strange, since I'm sure a lot
>of us have experience in that area, and could offer good opinions), or
>is unwilling to consider commercial software for some reason.  I was
>just trying to understand the reasons that PD software (including
>Freewrae and Shareware) is sought after, above and beyond commercial
>software.  To me, given equal functionality and comparable prices, the
>only difference I can see is that one doesn't necessarily have to pay
>for shareware in order to use it, but one does have to pay for
>commerical software.
>
Another reason why someone might wish to locate PD or shareware stuff is that
some companies are reluctant to pay for a program to do a particular task, and
trying to sell them on the benefits of the program can be a bear. With a PD or
shareware program, you can put the program to use and show the direct
benefits, and then ONCE it HAS shown its benefits, it becomes an easier sale
to superiors to get the BEST version of this terrific package that you can
demonstrate the advantages of.  This has happened to me, as has the flip side
of the coin. I have recommended a package based on ads and recommendations in
the industry only to find out it bore a striking resemblance to male bovine
fecal matter. This could make my judgement on such things subject to
cross-checking and verification, making the next recommendation more difficult
as well.( Fortunately for me, this occurred when I was still "new" to
computors, so it did not affect my credibility later. )


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Subject: Re: How hot can the 486-50 cpu run ?
Organization: Saint Mary's University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:01:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.022647.1505@ariel.ec.usf.edu> fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) writes:




>Can someone tell me just how hot the 486-50 is supposed to run. 
>I just got a 486-50 with 8 mb and a 256k cache and I am a little concerned 
>about the heat it generates. It gets too hot to keep a finger pressed
>against the 486 chip for more than 5 seconds. Is this normal ????


PC Week April 27, 1992 column by M.R. Zimmerman

"Intel Corp.'s i486 manual advises that the temperature of the center of the 
processor's top should not fall below 32 degrees or rise above 185 degrees.
Baily said the 33 MHz 486 runs at 170.2 degrees......"

If a 33MHz runs at 170 degrees a 50 Mhz must run around 175 or higher.

By the way the column was about a product called the CPU Kooler which sells 
for $39.95 by a co. called PCupid (916)338-1338. I am not assoicaited with 
this co. so I dont know how well the product works but it sounds like a good 
investment to me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why do people want PD software?
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 05:25:11 GMT

Peter Busser writes
> [having sources] means that I can buy a new system 
> without being a hostage of my old system (if I type my
> letters in WP under DOS, and I move to... say a Sun, then
> what am I going to do with my letters?)
> 
Buy the SUN or whatever version of WP and keep right on  
going.  At least, that's what I did when I got my NeXT.  WP  
is file-compatible across platforms.  

--
-
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re^2: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Keywords: Unknown
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 14:24:05 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

georged@sequent.com (George Dolbier) writes:

>In article <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:

>Your-a preachin' to d quier brother.

>Msdos was never designed to do multitasking. It was never part of the "spec".
This is the first time I see the words "Design" and "spec" in conjunction with
MooSe-DOS... I doubt if MooSe-DOS was ever designed. Furthermore I'm not sure
if you mean undocumented or documented specs.

>>that a lot of people have got rich just by inventing ways of managing this
>>better! (eg QEMM drivers).
>Msdos does not clame to do ANY memory management.
Hmmm, I just wonder why there is all this UMB stuff in MooSe-DOS 5.

In fact, MooSe-DOS does not claim to do ANYTHING, like almost any program. So
that's not a reason why we can't expect to have '90s power in the '90s.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: jjh@col.hp.com (Jeff Haeffele-x3570)
Subject: Re: Quantex computers
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:08:01 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

I would have to strongly recommend *against* buying the Quantex
386/40Mhz machine unless they have changed to a different design or
motherboard.  The system I received from them last fall would work okay
until it started to warm up.  When I opened the covers I found out they
were using a 25Mhz Intel cache with the 40Mhz AMD processor!
Needless to say I quickly bundled up the system and sent it back for
a refund.  To their credit they were prompt and courteous with the
refund but then I didn't try to recover shipping charges as well.

Hope this helps,

Jeff Haeffele
jjh@col.hp.com
From: psyrobtw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: what is a mapping problem?
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:55:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I just tried to run calibrate on my hard drive using norton 
utilities (v5.0). It stopped after the initial scan and informed me 
that the disk has mapping errors and that calibrate could not 
continue. Please, could someone tell me what this means? And is it 
correctable? Thanks!!

=============================
Robert Weiss
psyrobtw@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:50:21 GMT

In article <92227.38009.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>
>Upgrade the serial port? Even for an *internal* modem on COM3?  I was under the
>impression that the UART on the serial ports were only important to external
>modems running from COM1 (or COM2 if there are 2 serial ports).  When I
>inquired about my upcoming upgrade to a 9600 or 14.4k *internal* modem, I was
>told that an internal modem would use a 16550 on *its own card*.  Is this the
>case?  Am I understanding this correctly?  Am I misinterpreting something??
>
>I was under the impression that internal modems don't use the serial port...

Yes they do. They have a built-in serial port on them.
I originally had 2 serial ports, after getting an internal modem
BIOS reports three. There are dip switches on the card for setting
the port number, memory address and IRQ.
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From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz)
Subject: Re: DR DOS 6.0
Reply-To: frotz@novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 21:54:33 GMT

bernstei@shrike.und.ac.za (Simon Bernstein) writes:

]Does anyone know of a site that I can FTP the Windows 3.1 upgrade to
]DR DOS 6.0 from ?  I tried Novell, without much luck. 

	sjf-lwp.novell.com  (130.57.11.140)

		/sys/ftpguest/drdos/drdos/dr6win.zip

]Is there a DR-DOS group anywhere ?

No, but if there is enough interest (both internal and external) to
build the group, there may indeed become a group.  For now, I think
that it's better to have all of the MS people see where they should
improve their product (-:as well as our own improvements on our
product;-)

]Thanks for your help

No problem.

--
Frotz
	Speaking more for myself that for my employer (this time:-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 12:23:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.205041.23284@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>>only. With windows running, there is so much activity going on that
>>the CPU can't serve the serial port fast enough. This of course
>>results in losing incoming charaters.
>
>This is NOT his problem.  In addition, the UART on the internal modem
>probably isn't changeable anyway.  His problem is with an IRQ
>collision between COM1 and the modem at COM3.

Frankly, I doubt this. This would mess up the modem during DOS
sessions also. The trouble was with Windows only.

>
>This doesn't do anything for you unless you are running a 9600 baud or
>faster modem and a multitasking OS.
>

Sigh. I wrote "Windows user with a fast (>2400) modem".
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.sysv386
From: dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker)
Subject: Re: SCSI drive not booting - why?
Organization: Automated Data Management Services
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 11:39:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.092316.16400@polaris.utu.fi> ahahma@polaris.utu.fi (Arno Hahma) writes:
>I have a problem with my hard disk not booting MS-DOS. The drive is a
>Maxtor 8760S and the SCSI controller Adaptec 1542B. 
>
>I installed Interactive unix 3.0 on my computer and that works fine.
>But, at the same time I lost the ability to use the 30 meg
****************************TXT DELETED********************************
>Have I forgotten something? Are there still some settings to be
>considered? Or is the SCSI BIOS simply incompatible with my
>motherboard? Any hints are welcome!
>

I'm going from memory here, so please bear with me:

I have done this with ISC 3.0 and a 1542B.  If I remember correctly, if you
install ISC on a drive that already has a bootable (i.e., already        
partitioned, formatted, DOS installed) DOS partition of 32mb or less, the
ISC install routine will install a boot menu which allows you to select 
either the DOS or unix partition at boot up time.  It's been awhile since 
I've had a DOS partition on my unix machine, so the particulars don't 
immediately come to mind, but I'm fairly sure it's automatic if there's a
bootable DOS partition that the ISC install process recognizes.  Check out
page 9 of the Release Notes for version 3.0.  It implies that it's 
automatic.  All it says about the requirements for this feature are:
"If you have more than one operating system loaded on your primary fixed
disk..." it will boot the partition identified (by the FDISK table) as the
active one if there is no response with 20 seconds.
-- 
Dave Parker
Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax
From: larry@dprmpt.UUCP (Larry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Crosstalk destroys Hard Disk
Date: 15 Aug 92 17:29:35 GMT
Reply-To: larry@dprmpt.UUCP (Larry)
Organization: Data-Prompt

In article <1992Aug8.204950.22687@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> evw2@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric V. Wong) writes:
>
>I just want to clear something up here.  I don't know what version
>of Crosstalk for Windows, DOS, or Windows, you were using, but I
>have had Xtalk for Win v1.1 working just fine on Stacker drives
>in DOS 3.3 and DOS 5.0, as well as Win 3.0 and 3.1.  Oh, and
>Stacker 1.x, and 2.0.  Never a glitch.
> 
>So apparently this is not a universal problem.
>-- 
>evw2@po.cwru.edu  Case Western Reserve University
>                  Department of Neurosciences

Same here.  I'm running a 383/20 with MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and
Crosstalk for Windows version 1.2.2.  Windows and XTALK are on a
STACK'ed drive, and I've never had a problem with my hard disk.

I did, however have a minor problem using COM3 when I upgraded from
Windows 3.0 to 3.1.  I called DCA tech support and they sent me an
upgrade of Crosstalk (1.2.2) that took care of the problem.  You might
want to check further.

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