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From: rickb@ballantyne.Corp.Sun.COM (Rick Ballantyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Procomm Plus For Windows
Date: 28 Dec 1992 04:37:35 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rickb@ballantyne.Corp.Sun.COM
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Ed...cal the Procomm BBS at 314-875-0523 to get the latest patch. Just 
download and run.

Rick
In article 6964@julian.uwo.ca, ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:
> In article <1992Dec27.233349.27431@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
> >
> >>time killer was switching back and forth between DOS and windows
> >>(286 "brain dead" processor feature).  You'll have no such problems.
> >
> >people are under the impression that the 286 "isn't powerful enough"
> >for Windows 3.0 or 3.1.  The truth is that, as far as Windows is
> >concerned, the only difference betweeen the two is Windows enhanced
> >mode, which won't work on a 286.  So no DOS box, modem communication isn't
> >
> >What *is* crucial is processor speed.  Intel apparently never bothered
> >to make 386s slower than 16 mhz, and by the time the 286/16 appeared,
> >386/16 systems were begining to compete for shelf space, so few people
> >have 286 systems faster than 12mhz.  But I keep hearing of people who
> >are happy with Windows running on ATs, and after all 75% of a 386/16's
> >performance is still pretty good.  
> 
> I think it's laughable that some people bought the sage advice 2 or 3
> years ago and got 386-sx-16's.  I'm motoring along with my 286-25, which
> runs rings around 386 sx-16's and 20's.  I've run enough benchmarks to
> come to the conlusion that my 286-25 is at least as speedy as a 386-DX-20.
> I run windows with CorelDraw 3.0, Ventura 2.0, and I dabble with wordperfect
> for windows, but I think it's a little slow.
> 
> I know a few other people that run windows and coreldraw with 286-16's and
> 286-20's.  It works for them, and just as fast as 386-sx-16's.
> 
> As for the 386-enhanced modes, isin't that a slower mode than the standard
> mode?  Look folks, how many people out there (percentage wise) really
> benefit from or even use the task-switching or multi-tasking dos-box
> or whatever it is that the enhanced mode lets you do?
> 
> The point is, if the party line is that the minimum system for windows is
> a 386-sx-16, then there's something rotten, if not just plain wrong, that
> faster 286's aren't included in the "recommended equipment" list.





Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
Subject: Re: Amiga
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.
Reply-To: nwickham@nyx.UUCP (Neal Wickham)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 10:17:18 GMT

In article <724526721.AA01688@csource.oz.au> Alan.Sawyer@f253.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Alan Sawyer) writes:

>Lets face it you Amiga pukes.A Sega megadrive with the cd-rom 
>will beat you in the games department nowdays.And with the 586 
>being released soon you amiga pukes have no hope of beating 
>us know so Ha Ha Ha!!! 


CD-ROM is coming for all of the Amiga machines.  And the Sega certainly
won't beat the AGA machines at games. ...and certainly not at CD-ROM
multimedia applications where the most exciting aspects of computers
will be. 

...and I have a friend who works at the Intel plant in Albuquerque where
they make most of the x86 line and there are problems with the 586.  It
is such a complicated mess that they can't get it to fabricate in mass
production.  There is a good chance the 060 will beat the 586 to market.
...and besides, Commodore is talking about taking Amiga to RISC.

But hey... your PEE SEE cost less didn't it? 



                                      NCW
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.windows.ms
From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Re: MS-Windows + Fahrenheit 1280 + MAG MX17F = problems!
Organization: >>> Eskimo North (206)-FOR-EVER <<<
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:38:09 GMT

Oops, sorry.  One other detail.  I run Norton Desktop 2.0 on the system as well.

thanks!
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From: phred@well.sf.ca.us (Fred Heutte)
Subject: Re: Comments On Micropolis 2112?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:46:18 GMT

In <1992Dec14.232813.8572@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tt@thor.acc.Virginia.EDU (Tang Tang) writes:

>  Has anyone hear any problem with the new 3-1/2" drive from Micropolis?
>I had 3 disk related crashes on a Netware 3.11 server in the last 2 weeks
>after adding this new drive.  My setup is a 486/33, 64meg memory, Adaptec 
>1542B controller, a Seagate 5-1/4" 1gig and this new Micropolois drive.

>Thanks in advance,
>Tang

I've just installed a Micropolis 2112 for a client.  We found it would not
run with the Future Domain 1660 adapter -- FD says that is because of some
sort of incompatibility or disagreement among drive and controllers
manufacturers about the specs for 1+ GB drives, which is supposed to be
fixed 1Q93 with a new release of the FD firmware.

We were able to get the disk formatted properly under DOS and to write
smaller files, but it choked on anything > 100K.  Very annoying.

However, we put the old Adaptec 1542 board formerly used in the system
back in and it works fine with the 2112 so far.  Throughput measured
at > 3 MB/sec on large file transfers, which is fine by me.  I will be
happier when we can run it on a fully-performing SCSI2 bus, of course ;-)

I give high marks to Future Domain and Andataco (which supplied the drive);
their tech support was very helpful.

The 2112 seems like a very nice drive, but be careful of internal
installations -- it runs fairly hot (at 5400 rpm, who wouldn't ;-).
Haven't done strenuous testing but access seems right around 11-12 ms
which is the main reason I got this one instead of an HP.
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: IBM XT HD controller - How to low-level format?
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:54:13 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <BzL5LA.A7r@cmcl2.nyu.edu> liuyu@acf3.nyu.edu (Bill Clinton) writes:
>Hi,
>  I have a XT HD controller that seems to be an IBM controller. I has
>part number 62x0776 on the card. I also has some Xebec chips and Rom.
>How do I low-level format HD with this controller? 
>I tried g=c800:5 in debug but it didn't work. Am I starting at the wrong
>address? Or do I need a external program to do a low level format?

The XEBEC controller does =not= have a ROM-based format menu. You must
program it manually using port out commands from debug. Frankly it's easier
to use a third-party program like Disk Mangler or SpeedStor to do it.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: Re: ATI VESA driver supporting 24 BIT COLOR?
Organization: UIUC SCS
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:44:02 GMT

In article <234PwB5w165w@cibbs.UUCP> anthony@cibbs.UUCP writes:

>bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:


>I little understanding of what VESA will help you understand the "lack of
>support". VESA is a standard by which SUPERVGA has been defined for methods of
>accessing the extended resolutions. The VESA standard does not include
>graphics co-processors and accelerators.

>The ATI Graphics Ultra + is a Graphics Coprocessor card that incorporates VGA
>and SuperVGA. The card only support 16bit and 24bit color through the Graphics
>Coprocessor and not the SuperVGA section.

Apparently that is incorrect. I am basing my statement on information I 
have recrived direct from ATI, including programming the card using
direct writes (nto teh accelerator). This information states, if I 
read it correctly, that the card supports the accelerator only up to
the 16 bit modes  .. that is right, it doesn't support 24 bit color
using the accelerator. I may be wrong, but that is how it reads to me!

> So, no VESA driver for the product
>is available.

So that's not the reason.

On teh other hand,  this literature claims that the 24 bit mode must
display using the Mach32 controller, not the VGA controller. You can
indeed write to memory using the Mach32 controller's "memory aperture"
(i.e. as a linear memory above the 1 meg point). I've done this and
it works easily. It also claims that you can write in this mode
using the VGA controller (an hence write in the normal VGA memory
area at 0xa0000000 using paging), and display using the Mach32 controller.


It is not clear that these two controllers can be used at once.

Thus the situation about "can it be done" appears rather muddy to me.
I'm not about to find out by trying the necessary programming!!!!
(Believe me, the linear video memory is the way to go! I will provide
code for doing it if anybody wishes. It's not secret.)
 

>What DOS apps are you running that require 24 bit VESA support? For programs
>like 3D Studio and AutoShade, ATI provides a rendering driver with the card.

Doug McDonald
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,misc.wanted,misc.forsale.computers
From: mcoulter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Alias)
Subject: Digigraphics Com
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:37:19 GMT

I have a "Digigraphics Extended Comm Plus" board with no docs.

It looks as though it will do serial and parrallel io, and has
switches to set ports, etc.

Does anyone know what sw1 banks does and what the jumpers are for?

Barring that, is anyone interested in buying this?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: monty@quasar.lerc.nasa.gov (Monty Andro)
Subject: Seeking video frame graber
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Dec 92 10:20:24


Can someone suggest an inexpensive video frame graber for a PC that
can digitize a video signal from your TV?

Thanks,
Monty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: klosp@rimail.interlan.com (Patrick Klos)
Subject: ******** WANTED: Programmer's Guide to IDE ********
Keywords: IDE
Organization: Klos Technologies, Inc. (603) 424-0138
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:03:51 GMT


Does anyone have (or know where I can get) more information on the IDE
interface??  I'm looking for a definition of functions that are available
through the IDE interface, and how to access them.  Specifically, I'm sure
there's a function that will return the ACTUAL drive parameters for the
attached drive (not what the BIOS might *think* the parameters are).  I
expect there are other not-too-well-known features and functions that the
IDE interface supports as well.

Sincerely,

Patrick Klos
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        Klos Technologies, Inc.      Compuserve: 71521,145
        (603) 424-0138
========================All opinions are my own!========================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: SCSI compatibility on EISA: Recommendations.
Keywords: Adaptec Ultrastor Buslogib Pioneer Exabyte Fujitsu Toshiba AMI ATI
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:20:43 GMT

In <1250@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) writes:


>I intend to add an Exabyte tape drive (EXB-8205), Pioneer cdrom drive (DRM-604X)and a Toshiba (MK538FB) or a Fujitsu (M2266S) 1Gig + hard drive to my system.


>My system now consists of an AMI Eenterprise II motherboard, with a 486/33DX CPU and a Western Digital 1009 ESDI controller and an ATI Wonder + video card and a
>Dunord scanner interface card along with 16M of RAM.

>I would appreciate recommendations and advice concerning my choice of the above
>SCSI devices, your experiences with them, both good and bad, difficulty to
>install them in your system (please clarify if EISA ot not), and compatibility
>problems if any. A run down of the installation procedure and a check list of
>things to look out for would be most appreciated.

>Equally important will be my choice of SCSI adaptor boards. I need to choose
>between the following three: Adaptec 1742, Ultrastor 24F, and the Buslogic ???,
>(I don't know there EISA SCSI model No.). My prime concerns are:
>COMPATIBILITY, availability of DEVICE DRIVERS for the above peripherals, 
>support of SCSI II and FAST SCSI and of course reliability and ease of
>installation. I am a novice with respect to SCSI so I need all the help I
>can get.

I've got the AHA-1740 (it's a 1742 without the floppy controller) and
I love it.  Note that there is embedded Adaptec support in OS/2,
Windows/NT, and the PC variants of UNIX.

>I will need to obtain device drivers for the above devices, anyone know of any
>that will support any of these boards. Unfortunately, Corel SCSI has not yet
>been tested with the EISA version SCSI boards, thus Corel tech support
>could (would) not guaranty compatibility (although for example the ISA
>Adaptec 1542B has been tested OK). It might help to know if these boards are 
>fully ASPI compatible and if that guaranties that the Corel drivers will work.
>Does anyone out there have any experience with the Corel SCSI drivers and are
>they appropriate for EISA SCSI boards or only the 8 bit cards they were
>originally written for??

Adaptec is currently selling the Corel drivers themselves, so it seems
a good bet that they work with the Adaptec board.  As for ASPI
compliance, I believe the 'A' in ASPI stands for Adaptec.

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From: matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMD 40Mhz SXL for sale
Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:20:22 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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oops, try:

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From: mikes@ogicse.ogi.edu (Michael Stanbro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: TAR for DOS?
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:36:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.47858
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR

I am looking for a TAR utility for DOS or Windows that can read 
standard UNIX TAR format on 1/4" cartridge tapes.  I am running
a QIC150 tape drive controlled by an Adaptec 1542 SCSI board.  

Any ideas?

Mike Stanbro
From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Rodime telephone number
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:25:59 GMT
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
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Anyone have the USA phone number of Rodime?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:21:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.211216.27421@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>Yamanari (rsrodger@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
>:
>: >From what I HEARD (I don't know myself for sure) the '040 are all
>: >clock doublers.
>:
>: 	Lemme guess?  You heard it here.  Well, wrong.
>:  
>: 	Nuff said.  Motorola does not make *any* clock doubled
>: 	chips.  The 68040 is faster than the '486 at the same clockspeed
>: 	because it's *faster*--it executes a lot more instructions at the
>: 	1 cycle/per rate than the i486.
>:
>
>Then how come Motorola has boasted "50MHz internal operation" in an '040
>advertisement?


	Probably they were comparing a 40mhz 68040 to a 50mhz i486.

	In other words, cite the ad and magazine, and I;ll look 
	into it.  If you want the truth, though, simply call Motorola
	and have them send you the specs on the '040.  Motorola does not
	and never has offered clock-doubled CPU's.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: instm@rz.tu-clausthal.de (Stefan Mueller)
Subject:  SCSI-Programming-Specifications
Reply-To: instm@rz.tu-clausthal.de
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU Clausthal
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:27:40 GMT


Hi folx !

Where can I get SCSI-Programming-Specifications ?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
Subject: Re: is CMS trakker 250mb tape backup for real
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:35:29 GMT

hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:

>Someone mentioned that the Colorado 250 mb tape backup
>was really a 125mb tape system with compression software
>and CMS hoped to get 2:1 compression. Is this for real??
>If so, why can't I buy a CMS 125mb drive and use Norton
>Backup to get the same thing.

Probably because the 125 is really a 60MB drive with data compression
software...

This appears to have become standard practice in the PC tape drive
industry.  IOMega sells a series of "250" drives that use DC2120 -- i.e.
120MB -- tapes, with a bundled copy of Central Point Backup doing the
compression.  Irwin and CMS label their stuff the same way.
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From: billk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Karwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
Summary: isn't it just a scam?
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:22:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


From my understanding of the 486SX, I thought it was a worthless
scam to sell more chips.  But they seem to be so popular (relative
to what I would expect) that I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

I am under the impression that the 486SX is really a 486DX with
the FPU disabled.  And the 487SX is really a full 486DX, and when
it is installed into a 486SX system it bypasses or disables the
486SX chip.  The combination of 486SX + 487SX is more expensive
than a 486DX.  This seems like a very inefficient design to me.  :-)

Obviously one wouldn't buy a 486SX + 487SX right off the bat, when
one could buy a 486DX for less money and the same functionality.
Or would one?  Has anyone?  Why?

Does the 486SX chip somehow consume less power than a 486DX? (like
a 486SL does?)  Is it a newer rev of the 486 design?  What is it
about 486SX hardware that is selling?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Is Bernoulli 90 true SCSI device?
Keywords: Bernoulli SCSI
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:47:33 GMT

In <1992Dec27.212512.1349@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> aong@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (andrew ong) writes:

>Hi All..

>Bernoulli 90 comes with it's own 8-bit SCSI card.  But does
>it works with other SCSI card? like Adaptac or Future Domain?
>Do I need any drivers?  Any suggestion which SCSI card is
>good enuf for it?

I can't speak to the 90, but the 44 will work pure SCSI.  I called
Iomega about this, and they said that it was standard 50-pin SCSI.
Their only caveat was that I would need a controller from a vendor who
supported Bernoulli (or removable media, in general).

My home machine uses an Adaptec AHA-1740 in Enhanced Mode.  I load up
the Adaptec drivers from ASW-1410 (ASPIEDOS and ASPIDISK), configure
the controller to see the Bernoulli as a hard drive, allow synch
negotiation, transfer at 10 MB/s, etc., just like for my main hard
drive.  The Adaptec drivers then make the Bernoulli look like a big,
fast floppy drive.  

The only 'trick' is that your Bernoulli cartridges will have to be
reformatted using AFDISK before the Adaptec will see them.  On my 44
MB, they come out slightly smaller than the RCD format makes them
(42MB vice 44MB), but they run so much faster through the Adaptec
controller that it's worth the minor loss of capacity to me.  I don't
know what the 90's will format out to, assuming that it will work just
like the 44 does.

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