HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jimmyhua@aludra.usc.edu (Jimmy Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: where to get a program which converts *.ps to *.gif or
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:34:09 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Hi all, 

I was wondering if someone could direct me to the nearest place where
I could find a program (UNIX or PC), which can convert postscript files
into gifs. 

I have a color printer connected to my pc now, and well, the school's
postscript printer doesn't support color.  I kinda need the color 
print outs for the stuff i'm doing (which puts the end result in a
*.ps format).  

Any suggestions?  

Jimmy

p.s. 
please e-mail me as I do not read this group on a very regular basis. 

p.s.s.  
Thanks a million, you've probably saved me a bundle of time digging
through wuarchive.wustl.edu
From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Commodore 64???
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:55:13 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de

In <4000001@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> hmoss@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Howard Moss) writes:

>Hi,

>My kid's nursery school has a Commodore 64 being used for simple
>"educational" games. It is in the process of dying, either from a
>mangled power supply cord, intermittent supply or intermittent
>connection between power supply and computer. Is it worth it to 
>fix it? Does anyone else still use Commodores? Are they still
>being made? Is there any company that deals with repairs or,
>if the problem is real easy to fix, deals with upgrades or new
>programs for it to run?

>Any info would be greatly appreciated...

Yes, the C64 is still being manufactured as far as I know.
I suggest you turn to comp.sys.cbm with your question.

>Howard Moss
>Santa Rosa, CA
>707-577-3984 (~9-4pm PST, M-F)

I've tried to email to this poster twice, and both times the mail couldn't
be delivered.
From: jer7@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOEL ERIC RUDY)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: I am a moron
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:19:41 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I 'accidently' enabled the password check on my 386 DX BIOS chip.  Does anyone
know how to bypass it so I can upgrade my system once again?

Thank you for you help.

Joel E. Rudy
From: keele@skyfox
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: WANTED: High speed video (1ms accurate)...
Date: 21 JAN 93 21:03:43 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sask.usask.ca

Hello,

	We are interested in obtaining some information on high speed video 
monitors and sub-systems. The video refresh rate must allow 1ms accuracy.
Most common mutil-syncs require approx. 13-14ms for a screen sweep. If anyone
has any information on such systems, or knows of someone who does, could you
please send e-mail.

	Thanks in advance.

///Ross

A. Ross Keele                 | Keele@Sask.Usask.CA
Dept. of Psychology           | 46 Arts Building
University of Saskatchewan    | (306) 966-6696
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov)
Subject: Can I Hook Up an Imagewriter to an IBM PC Clone?
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:57:04 GMT

I have an old Mac Imagewriter II printer in excellent working condition.

I plan to purchase an IBM clone (486) running MS/DOS 5.0.

Is there a reliable and fast piece of software--and the appropriate
cables!!--which would permit me to use the Imagewriter as my main printer
from the IBM clone?

		************************************
		*  Please respond via e-mail to    *
		*                                  *
		*       asimov@nas.nasa.gov        *
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Many thanks in advance.


Dan Asimov
Mail Stop T045-1
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

asimov@nas.nasa.gov
(415) 604-4799
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: macintos@next05wor.wam.umd.edu (Mr. Paul L. Raby)
Subject: Conferencing system???
Keywords: NeXT or UNIX multi-user conference system?
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:01:01 GMT

Does anyone know of a program I can use on UXIX or on the NeXT which
would allow me to talk live to more than one person at once?  I have
heard that such a program does exist, possibly at one of the universities
in Boston, USA.

Answer would be much appreciated.

Paul Raby (macintos@wam.umd.edu)
USA
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: You'll get a kick out of this... :-)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:13:09 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Was: Make MONEY!!!

>From pwf@unet.umn.edu Thu Jan 28 15:03 CST 1993
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>From: "Paul W. Fakler" <pwf@unet.umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: Make MONEY!!!
To: rick (Rick Miller)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:06:53 CST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Status: RO

> From rick@ee.uwm.edu Thu Jan 28 04:18:40 1993
> ... 
> You've got a fairly knowledgable prankster in your midst...
> and he/she has dialup SLIP access to your news-server.
>
> It was probably done simply by adding a "From:" line to their Usenet
> message header, but it worries me that this person has dialup-SLIP access.
> It would probably only be a matter of (a short) time before they learn how
> to "spoof" more anonymously if he/she is not repremanded at this point.
> 
> Here is the posting, quoted in whole, as I received it:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>[posting omitted for brevity]

Not so knowledable.  We are actively promting SLIP access (and keeping logs
of everyone who uses it).  We have disabled SLIP access for the account in
question.  All staff and students at the UofM have access to a slip
terminal server.  We are pursuing other actions in regard to this matter.


Paul.

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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: mschenk@research.ptt.nl (Mike Schenk +31 70 33 23926)
Subject: Re: receipt of delivery
Originator: mrs@athena.research.ptt.nl
Organization: PTT Research, The Netherlands
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:18:23 GMT

In article <ALEXEEV.93Jan25142041@solitude.math.utah.edu> alexeev@math.utah.edu (Valery A. Alexeev) writes:
>I heard that on NEXT it is possible after sending mail to get a receipt
>confirming the delivery. Is it possible on other UNIX machines ? Are
>metamail and MIME relevant to this question ?
>I looked through FAQ and RFC's and haven't quite found answers to this
>question.

Yes, it is possible on all machines which use SMTP for mail transfer. It
is also possible on X.400 but that's not the issue here. It is very
easy, your message has to include the following header:

	Delivery-receipt-to:  <your email address>

See your documentation for the mailer you use to see how to include such
a header. I have it in my default headers so I get a delivery message
everytime. Sometimes it is a hassle because you get a lot of basically
useless emails. But there are times when it is quite usefull.

	Mike
From: jvinson@xsoft.xerox.com (Jeffrey A Vinson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Internet access
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:22:53 GMT
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Hi netters,

I am search of cheap (free if possible) internet email sites in the
following area codes:

	(302) - Delaware
	(919) - Raleigh

so my relatives can log in from home, and send me email cross country.

Please inform me of such sites if possible.

Thank you,
Jeff Vinson
vinson@migration.com
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: moore@oracorp.com (Sally Moore)
Subject: VAX 11/750 needs home
Organization: ORA Corporation, Ithaca, New York
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:43:30 GMT


Free to good non-profit home...new owner pays shipping costs from
current location in mid-state NY.

VAX 11/750 in expansion cabinet, includes:
	DEC RA81 456Mb 16b Disk
	TU77 1600 BPI Tape Drive

Non-profit organizations need to provide an acceptance note
on letterhead paper (details to be discussed at a later time.)

Profit organizations, etc. who are interested, feel free to contact
me with a price you're willing to pay IN ADDITION to the shipping
costs.

E-mail responses to moore@oracorp.com

Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: D2MAP@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU
Subject: 386 Motherboards.
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:39:29 GMT

I was looking for a supplier that sells 386 Motherboards without the Main Proce
ssor I.C.  If anybody out there knows of any of these suppliers please leave me
 some mail...
 
Thanks
 
Mark Porter
University of Akron...
 
University
From: mjc2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MATTHEW JAMES COLES)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Transpose C64 to Zenith (BASIC)
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:43:15 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Recently, I have been asked to transpose a program in C-64 BASIC to DOS BASIC.
How might I go about doing this? I've studied BASIC for about three years, but
never on an advanced level.
    Also, does anyone have any information concerning A-BUS relay cards (still
    made? By who?), or other models for a Zenith?

Your help will be greatly appreciated by the University Community.


Email to mjc2@lehigh.edu
            or
post a followup...
-- 


                                    -- Matthew J. Coles
                                       Lehigh University
                                       mjc2@lehigh.edu
                              "Welcome traveller. What news doth thou carry?"
Xref: sparky comp.misc:4987 comp.programming:3558 comp.sys.misc:1074 comp.unix.wizards:5629
From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.programming,comp.sys.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Bought a computer, with no manual
Date: 24 Jan 1993 00:40:19 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com

	I recently bought a computer with no manual. I'm trying to figure
out how it works: an abacus.

	Anyone out there got any references for how to use an abacus? Are
there different forms? Different means of using them? Mine is 27 rows of
buttons, with 5 buttons in each row, and a 6th separated from the rest
with a bar. Total of 27X6 buttons, in other words. [27-bit computing?]

	Presumably the 6th button is some kind of mode-of-the-5 buttons
button. I'm guessing that if it's up or down it means there's some kind
of multiplier in effect?

	Does anyone know what kinds of math an abacus most lends itself
to? Presumably addition/multiplication and so forth, but what else?
[factorization of 260-digit primes? ;)]

	Has anyone ported a reasonable UNIX clone to it? ;)
mjr.

[PS - anyone want to make bets as to how long it'll be until the digital
calculator kills the abacus off? I bought this one simply because it's a
*lovely* work of art - nicely lacquered mahogany with bamboo rails and
boxwood buttons that are delightfully crisply-edged. For $19.99, it was
cheaper than my 486, too]
-- 
                                                 "guns don't die. people do."
From: bw808@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott E. Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: DC Freenet
Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:02:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Hi, I saw the list of places to get information about things like freenets
but unfortunately, being on a Freenet which doesn't have teleport ability
(at least, not to places of my choosing), that info was not too much use to
me.  Hence, is there an email-type server I could mail questions to
or can somebody answer this question for me- Is there a freenet in DC
and how does one get in touch with it? (I have a friend interested in 
getting an account out there).

thanks,

scott
-- 
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						- They Might Be Giants
From: huck@aspen.NSA.HP.COM (Jerry Huck)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:51:39 GMT
Subject: Re: LINPACK on a HP-735/755?
Organization: HP Networked Systems Architecture - Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks


From farine@decus.ch:
>
>Has anybody run the LINPACK benchmark on a 735/755?
>--
>Jean-Pierre Farine
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Here are the measurements for 100x100 and 1000x1000 Linpack
performance.  These benchmarks are described in Jack Dongarra's
report CS-89-85 "Performance of Various Computers Using Standard
Linear Equations Software" published from the University of Tennessee
and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


For this benchmark, the 750 and 730 get identical answers.

=================RESULTS=======================

System:         720         730/750    735
      100x100   18Mflops    24Mflops    40.8Mflops
 TPP1000x1000   36Mflops    47Mflops   103Mflops
===============================================

The 755 should get the same performance in this benchmark as the
735.  Here's little description of each of the machines.

HP9000/s735
     99Mhz 7100 CPU (10.1nsec)
     256K I-cache (direct mapped)
     256K D-cache (direct mapped)
     Peak Mflops: 198
     48 Mbytes memory
     0S: HP-UX 9.0

HP9000/s730, HP9000/s750
     66Mhz Original Snake processor (15.15nsec)
     128/256K I-cache (direct mapped)
     256K D-cache (direct mapped)
     Peak Mflops: 66
     128 Mbytes memory
     0S: HP-UX 8.07

HP9000/s720:
     50Mhz Original Snake processor (20nsec)
     256K I-cache (direct mapped)
     256K D-cache (direct mapped)

Hope this helps,
Jerry Huck
Hewlett-Packard
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: [l/m 12/1/92] TPC Transaction Processing Council   (21/28) c.be FAQ
Keywords: business, online transactions processing, database,
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:25:10 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)

21	TPC						<This panel>
22
23
24
25	Ridiculously short benchmarks
26	Other miscellaneous benchmarks
27
28	References
1	Introduction to FAQ chain and netiquette
2
3	PERFECT
4
5	Performance Metrics
6	Temporary scaffold of New FAQ material
7	Music to benchmark by
8	Benchmark types
9	Linpack
10
11	NIST source and .orgs
12	Benchmark Environments
13	SLALOM
14
15	12 Ways to Fool the Masses with Benchmarks
16	SPEC
17	Benchmark invalidation methods
18
19	WPI Benchmark
20	Equivalence

OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing): Jim Gray, DEC, was Tandem, was IBM
	Has a new book out on the subject.  Also O. Serlin follows this.

TPC A and TPC B benchmarks are well documented, audited by outside firms,
and the results kept by the Transaction Processing Council.
The TPC administrator is:

   Shanley Public Relations
   777 N. First Street
   Suite 600
   San Jose, CA 95112-6311

TPC/A TPC/B
Location: FTP from DG.COM (128.222.1.2), login anonymous, directory tpc.

Name            Description

Results-text    Results spreadsheet
                (format: tab separated text)
                (size: 15KB)

Results-sylk    Results spreadsheet
                (format: SYLK spreadsheet interchange format)
                (size: 26KB)

TPCARev1.1      TPC Benchmark A Standard Specification Rev 1.1
                (format: Macintosh Microsoft Word)
                (size: 153KB)

TPCARev1.1-PS   TPC Benchmark A Standard Specification Rev 1.1
                (format: Postscript)
                (size: 816KB)

TPCARev1.1-RTF  TPC Benchmark A Standard Specification Rev 1.1
                (format: Rich Text Format - interchange format)
                (size: 243KB)

TPCBRev1.1      TPC Benchmark B Standard Specification Rev 1.1
                (format: Macintosh Microsoft Word)
                (size: 126KB)

TPCBRev1.1-PS   TPC Benchmark B Standard Specification Rev 1.1
                (format: PostScript)
                (size: 993KB)

TPCBRev1.1-RTF  TPC Benchmark B Standard Specification Rev 1.1
                (format: Rich Text Format - interchange format)
                (size: 194KB)

As for the code, the benchmark specs have sample SQL codes, but they may not
help you very much. Every implementation is going to be different. 

After all:
	what is a "transaction?" (but an arbitrary definition.)

                   ^ A  
                s / \ r                
               m /   \ c              
              h /     \ h            
             t /       \ i          
            i /         \ t        
           r /           \ e      
          o /             \ c    
         g /               \ t  
        l /                 \ u
       A /                   \ r
        <_____________________> e   
                Language
 
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From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: i860 Paragon XP/S Fastest Computer of all??!!
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:33:23 GMT
Followup-To: comp.benchmarks
Distribution: inet
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Bill Williams: What? Do you make a commision on Intel supercomputers
or something? Yes, it may have the fasttxxx fastest score for math, buth
there are other things that computers do. Lastly, I can't believe
you even quoted us a MIPS number. Are you in marketing? MIPS are like saying
"My car goes 5,000 gloks and hour!" Well, how big is your cars glok?
No, I'm not saying that the Intel i860 isn't s  fast, but FLOPs and
MIPS aren't the only things machines do. How about memory reads/writes,
context switching, vector processing, or string processing?
From: brasseur@stna.dgac.fr (Christophe Le Brasseur CAP SESA TERTIAIRE AG25)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: specint, specfloat, mips...
Keywords: specint specfloat mips
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:28:37 GMT
Organization: STNA 95 rue Henri Rochefort 91025 Evry Cedex 33(1)60.79.80.00

Here are a few questions :
==========================

What exactly are specint and specfloat ?

How can you compare spec to mips ?

For my own system, should I look at specint or specfloat ?


And here is all the story :
===========================

I am now working on choosing a target computer for a airport management system.

We already made simulation of the system on sparc 10/30 and on Bull DPX2/360 Bi-processor (a french computer with two 25Mhz 68040).

The best of these is the Sparc 10/30 but it is not enought : 
CPU load is about 80 % and times must be devided by two.

So we need to choose another machine with about twice the power of the sparc 10/30.

We looked at Sparc 10/52 and at RS6000.

The sun should be OK but we are wondering about disponibility and porting on Solaris 2 (which seems to be the only system for that machine).

RS6000's seems to be good for specfloat compared to the sparc 10/30, but specints are not so good.

We can also get a DPX2/380 with 4 processors (33 Mhz 68040) : 100 Mips (!?) 

So the point is : does my appplication use a lot of specints or a lot of specfloat ?

The application looks like that :
=================================

2 layers : Hard Core and User Layer.

The hard core is composed of about 10 servers processes for processing and storage managements (Processing is basically consistance management and checking, only few calculations).

The User Layer manages interaction with users ; there is one process for each screen (vt100) which offers menus, lists of items, forms filling and so on...  

There are a lot of message exchanges between all these process, implemented with Unix messages queues, files, and signals for asynchroneous messages.

CPU repartition is the following :

Oracle 		: 26 %
Hard Core 	: 20 %
User Layer	: 49 % (38 processes)
....



Here it is...


Christophe.


PS : any informations/experiences on sparc 10/52 or RS6000's are welcome.
From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: Re: RealStones??
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:02:39 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

In article <1993Jan26.064827.15690@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> pkerr@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Paul Kerr) writes:
> Sorry if this is an FAQ, but the FAQ's for this group are just not
>making sense to me (maybe someone could explain these bizarre posts).

The best thing is to have a News/comp/bencmarks/KILL file with
/: *\[l\/m /:j
in it.  Then you will not be annoyed by these truly bizarre postings.  I
was once in a discussion with one of the people responsible for these
mysterious postings.  I am still not sure whether he tried to make a
fool of me but he never managed to give any explanation whatsoever what
these cryptic messages and the strange symbols in them were supposed to
mean.  To me, they look like the products of someone heavily on drugs so I
just gave up.  If they are FAQ's I think these FAQ's need FAQ's of their
own.

Bo
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Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: RealStones??
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:24:30 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

How about to just make sure your computer is really doing well...
Use the RollStones benchmark today!!
-- 
Antony Suter			[0] antony@werple.apana.org.au
Melbourne, Australia		[1] s871780@rmit.edu.au
"Call me Jack - stranger things have happened!"