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From: cthulhu@diku.dk (Stefan Krabbe)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:21:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

rebill01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (Russell E. Billings) writes:

>Assuming that Jim meant "Communications of the ACM", here is the article
>in question:

>   Spafford, E.H. The Internet Worm: Crisis and aftermath. Communications
>       of the ACM, volume 32, number 6 (June 1989).

And where do you get this article ?

             Best Regards
               Stefan
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:41:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.180353.16534@gallant.apple.com> cheryl@gallant.apple.com (Cheryl Lins) writes:
> I can agree with the first two sentences. And CLI's are more useful to the
> 'power' user (or programmer) than the casual loser. And Apple does have a
> CLI (even if it's not a released product yet) and it's called AppleScript
> (tm).

What was wrong with Hypercard?

Besides it's only, what, nearly 9 years after the machine came out?
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From: cheryl@gallant.apple.com (Cheryl Lins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:03:38 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <9212120205.28@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>
>PowerPC is UNIX with a Mac emulation on top.
>

You're talking about PowerOpen. PowerPC is the name of a series of computer 
chips. The 601 is the first (reported in EE Times, MacWeek, etc). PowerOpen
is a Unix implementation running on the PowerPC chip. The PowerPC based
Macintoshes will not be based on Unix. There is 68020 emulation at the
bottom. This was all publicly announced at the WWDC in May, '92.


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: WANTED: PDP-10 or 11
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:13:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec4.215012.10674@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <2511338@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> 
> maximum MASS-BUS count was 16 ports.  With interleaved memory, the -10 
> can keep them all moving at the same time, etc.
> 

Time to fix this. A KL-10D or KL-10E could have 8 RH20s. Later Es, REs and
a FCO changed this to 4 RH20s, and 2 CI-20s/NI-20s. In the 8 RH case, the
first 4 RHs could run ever cycle, and the second 4 ever other cycle. You
didn't need interleaved memory as multiple boxes in the case of MF/MG mos
memory. You would with core if you wanted to run all RHs at the limit.

As a comparison, 1 RP07 un-interleaved needed a second memory controller on
a 11/780. An 11/70 with MK-11s can run a RP07 no problems. ( except for lack
of diagnostics etc ).

~Paul

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: Mystery House wanted
Organization: Milo's Meadow
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:59:14 GMT

In article <828x03m2c3tw00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.190026.5149@spatula.rent.com> ahm@spatula.rent.com (Andreas Meyer) writes:
>>dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett) writes:
>>> Actually, Mystery House was made by Sierra for the Apple *I* (Yep, the Apple)
>>                                                     ^^^^^  ^
>>What came to be known as the Apple I had a production run of 200 hand-built
>>machines, and marked the birth of that company. So I can't imagine Sierra 
>>would have been in business that soon.
>More importantly, did the Apple I have hires graphics..?

Don't believe so.  I think, in fact, the first few hundred II's had the hi-res
stuff wire-wrapped by hand as they came off the assembly line.  And I know,
since I have read it, that the section on hi-res graphics in the Red Book
(the original Apple ][ users' guide, which contained documented ROM listings
as well as the full schematic) was not printed like the rest of the manual
but was in Woz's scrawl.

Adam
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From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Origin of Lena pics?
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:32:53 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

> Can someone tell me where the original Lena pics were published? ...
> For those of you who don't know what picture I'm refering to, the Lena
> picture is the picture used in many of the image compression and
> graphics papers.
[ definitive answer on who Lenna was deleted ]

Now that one's out of the way...

Whose was the Original Teapot?
What make was it and who designed it (the clay original)?
Has the designer ever got any credit for it from the computer graphics people?

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:02:53 GMT

In article <11158347@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
> half-hearted attempts to increase virtual memory (split I&D, supervisor
> mode), and I can quite understand why DEC didn't really want to carry this
> on into the 80s with the -10 line.

I'm amazed DEC put the split-I&D mode in the -11, because so far as I can
tell they didn't provide any O/S support for it until a pretty late release
of RSX-11. When I was using the -11 heavily, the only O/S that let you USE
split-I&D seemed to be 2BSD and derivitives.

> The 11/70 is 17 years old for chrissakes.  [...]
> 15 years is a bloody long time for one model, and there's still more
> of 'em chugging along just fine than any kind of -10.

Yes, remember DEC is planning on bringing the Alpha replacement onto the
stage 15 years from now, and that's a product line... not just a model.
I mean, in terms of execution environment a PDP-11 is just a little less
desirable than an 80286. If you want a perfect sensation of what hacking
on an -11 is like, run an old version of Coherent or Minix that only
supports small model.

And I can understand Charles Lasner's devotion to the systems he used when
he was just getting started, but 4K of 12 bit words on the -8 was painful
back in the late '70s when I was using one, unless you were doing some
really trivial stuff. By the end my pocket calculator had nearly as much
memory.

Crowing that the -11 users are finally getting their comeuppance is sad:
I'm an -11 fan and even I think DEC has kept it alive (or been forced to
keep it alive) way longer than I ever expected.
-- 
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Proper pronounciation
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:18:40 GMT

In article <7662.168.uupcb@ssr.com> dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin)  writes:
>CL> .You mean that if I progress as a hacker for another 22 years, I will event
>  > .hack up people?
>
>No, YOU will probably end your love affair with the PDP-8 and start
>implementing Kermit on an LGP-30.  <~>

I thought Mel did that?

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: Marg_Meikle@mindlink.bc.ca (Marg Meikle)
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:50:49 GMT

If I had to go on national radio and explain a flame war... how should I do
it?  Sounds like you might be a good source for help. Thanks

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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: The puppy is dead - alt.folklore.computers will not change
Summary: Factual corrections
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 08:14:32 GMT

> Mark Brader ... claimed that he
> had a fascistic news admin who absolutely would not carry alt. groups at
> sq.com.  Note that Brader has recently begun posting to alt.folklore.* groups
> _from sq.com_.  Obviously his news admin changed his mind.

This is hilarious.  Anyone who has actually found my articles worth
reading in the past knows that *all* of the quoted sentences are wrong.
(The words that are wrong in the second one are "recently begun".)
I'm tempted to redirect followups to talk.bizarre.
-- 
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utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com		      -- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

This article is in the public domain.
From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Apple ][e emulator (?)
Date: 13 Dec 92 01:16:04 GMT
Organization: Doug's House of Disco

In article <HHRmVB5w165w@bluemoon.use.com> cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin) writes:
>c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>> A couple of us CS types were discussing the old ][e, and concluded that it
>> would be a SMOP to write a ][e emulator (sort of an interpreter that took ][
>> object code and ran it on a virtual 6502, virtual graphics chips, etc). 
>> Although this would be a real cool hack, *I* don't have time for it.  Has
>> anyone heard of anyone else talk about this project (either software or 
>> vaporware)?  I'd like to meet the demented heroic fool!

It has already been done for 286+ machines.
Pretty nifty little system -- it even handles much of the Apple II's I/O
structure ...
The biggest problem with it is that you need to find some way to get Apple 
programs on to the PC ... the best way that I know of is to hook the serial
port of an Apple II and a PC and write a short program to transfer the disk
sector by sector.

If anybody wants it, I'll upload it for 'em ...
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From: olounela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli Lounela)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.french,news.admin.misc,news.future,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: 8-bit news
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:11:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
>Since MS-DOS 3.3, each PC has a code page 850 supported by it's DOS.
>This code page contains ALL Latin 1 characters (that was the reason, why
>it has been introduced), but with other codes than in ISO 8859-1, in order to
>stay compatible with the old traditional IBM PC code page 437 which is
>supported in hardware by even every CGA card.

This is true.  However, a sad fact is that not all programs understand
about code pages, a most notable example being dBase IV.  Thus, I've
been forced (well, almost anyway :-) to use page 437 and stomp all
country specificisms onto it.  No, I'm not going into specifics, just to
spare you from the horrors. 

(Yes, I am a CP maintenance person, and getting more and more severe
symptoms all the time...)

-- 
	Olli, 3 dan

E-mail: olounela@cc.helsinki.fi           ! .sig still under construction.
Blame me only for any opinions expressed. !  Never you mind, I don't either.
From: hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Non-English-based computer languages (was: I don't understand this either (was: Another one for the s.c.n. ...))
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:27:39 GMT
Reply-To: Henry.Troup@BNR.CA
Distribution: world
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Dec11.112245.5728@pollux.lu.se>, magnus@thep.lu.se
(Magnus Olsson) writes:
|>keywords in Swedish. It was a very funny feeling to write programs in
|>this language; it just felt so wrong to have the keywords in one's own
|>language, and the results looked more like jokes than like real

Interesting; us English speakers have been so lucky, I guess.  Any idea
why it felt wrong?

I once used a Pascal compiler where the common error messages had been
translated from German to English - but the messages for internal errors
and strange cases were still in German!  Fortunately there was one
German speaker in the class.
                                                                          
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	       Legislated morality is the enemy of true morality
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:01:31 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


There are also those who complained about the PDP11->VAX transition; they
would have preferred a 32-bit PDP11.
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"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:50:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.195815.1043@news.uiowa.edu> mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:
> I just wrote a shell script to do the same thing.  

Wimp: "for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do
mv $i?* $i/.; done &". Total time, 20 seconds. I don't have to wait for it
to finish, I did it in the background.
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From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Subject: 8008 related to PDP-11? (was: What is so greate ...)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:25:05 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

> The 8008 inspired by the '11? It's about as far away from an 11 as you
> can get!

Yes, but the other big microprocessor familily that has survived to the
present, the Motorola 68000, clearly borrows from the -11.

Furthermore, as someone who's programmed both Intel 8080 and PDP-11
machines, I've noticed that, although the instruction sets are wildly
different, the assembly language of the 8080 owes quite a bit to that
of the PDP-11.  That is, conventions for comments, labels, and white
space are DEC-ish.  Furthermore, when Zilog introduced their Z-80, they
managed to produce a new and incompatable assembly language that made
the horribly irregular underlying machine look regular at the assembly
language level, and the notation they used was clearly inspired by the
PDP-11 notation.  Finally, when Intel responded with the 8086, they
borrowed some of Zilog's innovative work in order to make an ugly
architecture look tolerable.

So, assembly language programmers on the Intel family owe quite a bit
to DEC, even if the underlying architecture is a *&^%$#!@#$%^& mess.

					Doug Jones
					jones@cs.uiowa.edu
From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:49:23 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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cheryl@gallant.apple.com (Cheryl Lins) writes:

>In article <9212162327.54@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
->
->When the Mac ships with a real command line shell, then maybe some people
->will look on it more favorably.

>Ha-ha-ha!!! You make a funny, no?

>Only those brought up on dinosaur derived systems and mentalities. And i'm so
>very certain that Mom and Pop want to be programmers (even in the very limited
>form of writing shell commands). But that's a discussion best suited for the
>'famous flame wars' thread (GUI vs command line). And I have better things to
>do than spend time trying to convince you otherwise or start a new flame war.

No, he make a good point, no?
No one is asking Apple to do away with their GUI (which *would* be really
stupid).  What people are asking for is an alternative, in other words, a CLI.
Only those who are perpetually computer illiterate don't see the use of a CLI.
The GUI is wonderful for Mom and Pop, secretaries, and for opening comm
programs, word processers, etc.  But for a lot of things, a CLI is considerably
more powerful, not to mention quicker.  The Amiga has had both since the day it
came out (and please, no Amiga vs Mac flame wars), and Amiga users know how
nice it is to have both.  Steve Jobs figured this out (remember him?) which is
why the NeXT gives you both.  Only Apple is still lagging behind.

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From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: New "Hello" program
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:59:23 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

> a new hello program:
>
> #define NETWORK_WIZARD  "Daniel Max P. Drucker"
> #define MY_RESPONSE     "caused me to start a kill file for the first time"
> void main(void){
>  printf("%s %s\n", NETWORK_WIZARD, MY_RESPONSE);
> }

But you're defining me as a network wizard...which is exactly what you don't
believe!



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: gfritz@tesla.ecn.purdue.edu (Geoffrey M Fritz)
Subject: Re: PI
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:06:29 GMT

>>Back to folklore - what's everybody's favorite fast-converging
>>series expansion for 'pi'?
>
>Simple and fast: 22/7
                        
How 'bout this one:    
                     4_________
                    \/ 2143/22

-- Geoff
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: New "Hello" program
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 19:22:40 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

> Well, he was the first into my global killfile, which now has six entries, two
> of which are for Dannie-boy, one for some schmuck whose caps lock key is
> jammed,


Why not write a program to check for a large percentage of capitalized letters
and have it convert the whole thing to lower case? (assuming the content isn't
also 'caps-lock' type, which it probably is)




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From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Subject: Re: Origin of Lena pics?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:36:15 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

From article <1992Dec14.234308.21601@cs.mcgill.ca>, by branagh@cs.mcgill.ca (Wayne BRANAGH):
> Greetings.
> 
> Can someone tell me where the original Lena pics were published? ...
> For those of you who don't know what picture I'm refering to, the Lena
> picture is the picture used in many of the image compression and
> graphics papers.

Reprinting some old postings,

| From: garp@isy.liu.se (Johan Garpendahl)
| Subject: Re: Folk images -- Lenna
| Date: 23 May 91 17:53:53 GMT
| Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
| 
| jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
| writes:
| 
| >1) Who is Lenna.
| 
| 'Lenna' is a swedish girl, or rather a woman today.
| Her real name is Lena, I think she called herself Lenna 'over there'
| to make it easier for you americans to pronounce.
| She has a last name too, but I've forgotten it.
| Today, she has two or three kids and works for the swedish liqueur monopoly.
| 
| >3) Does Lenna know the kinds of things people have done to her?  I've
| >    seen remarkable things done to this image.
| 
| Yes, she does.
| 
| I saw an article about her here on a screen. The made an interview with her
| a couple of years ago.
| 
| I wouldn't be surprised if someone who read it more carefully than I did
| would post more about it.
| 
=====================
| From: mongoose@spf.trw.com (Julian Watkins)
| Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
| Subject: Re: Folk images -- Lenna
| Date: 5 Jun 91 06:06:54 GMT
| Organization: TRW Data Systems Center, Redondo Beach, CA
| 
| In article <hans.674944854@galaxy> hans@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Hans Buurman)
| >Rumour has it that the girl was a playboy centrefold some 20 years ago.
| >According to this rumour, she may not be wearing anything besides what
| >you see in the image.
| 
| Well, I finally found the definitive reference "Playboy's Playmates, the
| Second 15 Years" dated 1984 shows the centerfold in question as being
| Lenna Sjooblom (put umlauts over the oo in Sjooblom), November 1972
| playmate of the month.  The text with the picture reads as follows:
| 
|   A model from Sweden, Lenna Sjooblom, became our Playmate for November
|   1972.  A successful career in Chicago didn't keep her from returning
|   home for long vacations and traditional family celebrations such as
|   Midsummer's Eve; Playboy staffers photographed her, in fact, dancing
|   around the Swedish equivalent of a Maypole.
| 
| The full size picture shows Lenna looking over her right shoulder at the 
| camera while facing a mirror.  Besides the hat, she is wearing sheer black
| stockings and boots.

Thanks to all the wonderful people out on the net, particularly to those
who are able to do grueling research by slogging through old magazines
and suchlike, this question is answered.  As I have said before, those
who reprint the Lena (or Lenna) image should really give a proper citation
to the original!

				Doug Jones
				jones@cs.uiowa.edu
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: PI
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:06:14 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

> >>>>>Back to folklore - what's everybody's favorite fast-converging
> >>>>>series expansion for 'pi'?

You know what's really sad: none of the answers are series expansions!
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