HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bdboyle@erenj.com (Bryan D. Boyle)
Subject: Need info: TRS-80/II and S-100 Turbodos
Originator: bdboyle@maverick1.erenj.com
Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering, NJ
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:48:22 GMT

Being an old afficianado of TurboDOS, I would like to know if anyone
on the net has a legal copy that they would like to sell.  I know that
it was configged for a wide range of systems from California Computer to
IMS, as well as the TRS80/II.  Now, I realize that we are talking about
a system that is over 10 years old, but I do have a use for the mod
II, and do have both a ccs s-100 system (64K, 2 rs232 i/o, 1 centronics
parallel, DG D410 terminal and quantum 40mb fixed disk) and am in the
process of obtaining another s100 system for hacking around...any info
or direction would be greatly appreciated.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: winslade@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Winslade)
Subject: Re: Kaypro II Video Problem
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:18:01 GMT

mknewman@blkbox (Marc Kraker Newman) writes:

[munch]

>       ORG 0103H

>       JMP TURD           <<<----

You mean that the code I hacked with that label is STILL floating
around <blush>.  ;-)  ;-)  ;-)

Good day       JSW
From: kcary@pepvax.pepperdine.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: qt-term disk or uuencode for Morrow (MD-11) needed
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:11:30 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Does anyone have qterm set up for a Morrow? Would you contact me, so I can
set it up for our Assoc. Dean? He'll send you a letter of thanks when he
gets it going, so that he can read his e-mail.

USnail:

Kim Cary
GSEP - Pepperdine
400 Corporate Pointe
Culver City, CA 90230

e-mail:
Kim Cary, GSEP Systems Support, Pepperdine University

Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: kent@cc.tut.fi (Kentt{l{ Marko)
Subject: TCJ HD controller article
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: inet
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 11:35:57 GMT



Are any of you guys out there able to scan or something the article about IDE
HD controllers in The Computer Journal 48 Jan/Feb 1991 and email it to me or
post to this group so that we back here in Europe could get that article too ?

Thanks anyway,



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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: "blair groves" <blair.groves@canrem.com>
Subject: vt100 comm package wanted
Reply-To: "blair groves" <blair.groves@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Dec 92 19:27:53 EST

-> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can
-> perform minimally VT100 emulation?  I'm in need of one to connect to
-> our schools mainframe.  Thanks.


Try David Goodenough's QTERM. It does VT-100, and supports transfer
protocols including Kermit and XModem.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu (STOLFA ROLAND JOSE)
Subject: SmallC 2.1
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 16:46:59 GMT

Does anybody know how to get SmallC 2.1 to compile on a UN*X host?  I have
been trying, unsuccessfully, to get it to compile.  I am also interested
in any docs that may exist for it.  All I have are the files:

cc1.c cc11.c cc12.c cc13.c cc2.c cc21.c cc22.c cc3.c cc31.c cc32.c cc33.c
cc4.c cc41.c cc42.c cc5.c cc6.c ccdef.c

Any and all assistance would be appreciated.

Roland Stolfa				Internet:	rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu
Computer Science Department
219 Math Sciences Building		Disclaimer:	You've lost your mind
Oklahoma State University				if you think anyone
Stillwater OK 74078-0599				speaks for this place!
From: WEKOST@ERS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: (none)
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:26:32 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

get zsim20.zip

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From: pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu (Preston Bricker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Z80 FORTRAN
Keywords: Kaypro Nevada Fortran
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:04:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dept. of Radiotherapy; Loyola Univ. Med Ctr
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I found my Nevada Fortran manual and will send you a photocopy or
perhaps a scanned text file if I get your snail address.  I have the
software on 8" disks, but my S100 system is down.  I also have four
Kaypro's (10, 1, 2X, 4+88) and would like you to send me a copy of
the programs on 5 1/4" disks.  Which model Kaypro did you get?

By the time we connect it will probably be next year before you get
the manual, but you will get it.  I'm on vacation between Xmas and
New Year's.

Preston Bricker
Loyola Univ Med Ctr		pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu
2160 S 1st Ave			708 343-7200 x4372 vox (Hines Hosp)
Maywood, IL 60153		708 216-2647 fax
Xref: sparky comp.os.cpm:1499 comp.lang.fortran:4799
From: SUSAN FARMER <farmer@cs.utk.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: z-80 Fortran
Date: 18 Dec 1992 03:53:28 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Originator: jfarmer@duncan.cs.utk.edu

I want to get Fortran for my Kaypro (*including* manuals).  Will pay shipping.

Barring that, could someone tell me hou to *use* Nevada Fortran?  I inherited
a copy (with *no* docs) when I purchased a used machine.  

Thanks
Susan

The news server on the machine my wife uses is broken soshe asked me to 
post this for her.  Please reply to her (farmer@cs.utk.edu).

	Thanks John T.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: "larry moore" <larry.moore@canrem.com>
Subject: vt100 comm package wa
Reply-To: "larry moore" <larry.moore@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:01:08 EST


Dave Weitermann, in message <1gbgc2INN8ai@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
asks: 
DW> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can
  > perform minimally VT100 emulation?  I'm in need of one to connect
  > to our schools mainframe.  Thanks.


  >dave weitermann
  >bv548@freenet.cwru.edu
  >weitermann@admin.ripon.edu
  >weitermannd@acad.ripon.edu

(wet!pallio!dg) David Goodenough's qterm.com does a quite 
creditable VT100 emulation.


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From: bv548@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David S Weitermann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: VT100 comm package wanted
Date: 12 Dec 92 01:47:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can
perform minimally VT100 emulation?  I'm in need of one to connect
to our schools mainframe.  Thanks.


dave weitermann
bv548@freenet.cwru.edu
weitermann@admin.ripon.edu
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From: David.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk (David Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: VT100 support in AOS/VS
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:29:37 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

Re: VT100 support

In the documentation with the latest Kermit for AOS/VS, it talks about
the XLT characteristic for VT100 support, and mentions the need to
sysgen this in advance.

All our System Generation is done by the software house that supply
our library system. They say there may be a price to pay if I ask for
VT100, that I might lose some ports on my IACs, but they don't seem to
know for sure.

My objective is simply to run utilities like PED and SED with
MS-Kermit instead of our D211 emulator. I would only need VT100 support for
a few lines, say up to 4.

Can anyone clarify the limitations of VT100 support ?

My set up is AOS/VS 7.67 with three IAC16s of 1987 vintage and one
IAC8.

David Thomas
Brunel University Library
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 3PH
From: Paul Peterson <P.Peterson@ccsd.uts.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Re: VT100 support in AOS/VS
Date: 17 Dec 1992 01:24:02 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Distribution: world
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In article <BzAw1F.FJB@brunel.ac.uk> David Thomas, David.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk
writes:
>Re: VT100 support
>
>In the documentation with the latest Kermit for AOS/VS, it talks about
>the XLT characteristic for VT100 support, and mentions the need to
>sysgen this in advance.
>
>All our System Generation is done by the software house that supply
>our library system. They say there may be a price to pay if I ask for
>VT100, that I might lose some ports on my IACs, but they don't seem to
>know for sure.

	You won't lose any of your ports and there's no price to pay. The only
thing to be aware of is that only on IAC-8s and IAC-12s will all the
terminals be able to configured as vt100. IAC-16s simply don't have enough
onboard
memory to support any more than 14 vt100 emulation at a time.
>
>My objective is simply to run utilities like PED and SED with
>MS-Kermit instead of our D211 emulator. I would only need VT100 support for
>a few lines, say up to 4.
>
>Can anyone clarify the limitations of VT100 support ?

	A note when using the escape key. Because all vt100 function key begin
with escape, the escape key is traped by the hardware driver to test whether
the user was pressing a funtion key or not. In this case just press escape
again
and the escape will then be transmitted. Also you would be best to use Kermit's
keymapping facility to map the funtion keys to the DG function keys.

>
>My set up is AOS/VS 7.67 with three IAC16s of 1987 vintage and one
>IAC8.

	I'd recommend the use of your IAC8. That way you only need to sysgen
one device. You'll also need to set ther characteristics for the terminal
*BEFORE* the user logs on, say when bringing up EXEC.

>
>David Thomas
>Brunel University Library
>Uxbridge
>Middlesex
>UB8 3PH

	Well, I hop all of this is of some help.

Cheers,
Paul.
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From: kurt@cs.tamu.edu (Kurt Freiberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Re: VT100 support in AOS/VS
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:01:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
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In article <BzAw1F.FJB@brunel.ac.uk>, David.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk (David Thomas) writes:
|> Re: VT100 support
|> 
|> In the documentation with the latest Kermit for AOS/VS, it talks about
|> the XLT characteristic for VT100 support, and mentions the need to
|> sysgen this in advance.
|> 
|> All our System Generation is done by the software house that supply
|> our library system. They say there may be a price to pay if I ask for
|> VT100, that I might lose some ports on my IACs, but they don't seem to
|> know for sure.
|> 
|> My objective is simply to run utilities like PED and SED with
|> MS-Kermit instead of our D211 emulator. I would only need VT100 support for
|> a few lines, say up to 4.
|> 
|> Can anyone clarify the limitations of VT100 support ?
|> 
|> My set up is AOS/VS 7.67 with three IAC16s of 1987 vintage and one
|> IAC8.

Gawd, it's been a long time since I thought about this, but.....

The code needed for VT100-Dxxx translation takes up quite a bit;  The old
IAC/16s had a memory limit that would have cut the ring buffers down to 
almost nothing.  So, the idea was that for VT100 emulation/translation, you
couldn't specify as many lines on the IAC in order to steal their buffers/
tables/whathaveyou.  I believe (but don't take it as Gospel) that the IAC/8,
having scads of memory (relatively speaking) did not have this problem.

Kurt Freiberger,
ex-SSR (RIP Oct '90)
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From: Sean.Levy@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: Distributed Systems
Date: 19 Dec 1992 04:57:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Don't forget to look up the Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Tech reports on ISIS.
IMHO, their code (both the free version and the product version) is the
best thing going, DS-wise. Read netnews.comp.sys.isis for more info.

Cheers,
				-- Sean
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From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: Raid 7 Versus Earlier Raid 4 -- Embedded OS
Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:42:32 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Regarding availability of RAID 7, Dave Goldblatt at Clarkson University
writes:

>I wonder if Wang resells them?

No, these RAID 7 disk array platforms are not available from us here
at the new Wang Labs.  You would have to get them directly from Storage
Computer in Nashua, New Hampshire, or via their European headquarters
in Frankfurt, or their European/Asia/Pacific distributors.  Here at the
new Wang Labs we are reselling a RAID 3 from another major vendor, because
the architecture more closely matches that of our VS minicomputers
(both those already installed and the new VS high-end models that have
been coming out recently.)   I'll be happy to find some technical RAID
reports on the Wang VS RAIDs for those people interested.

>Other than one article in a trade rag somewhere, I've never seen
anything else on it in the press.

Actually they've published a number of technical articles in the
literature.  They seem to prefer to publish more technical material,
rather than marketing blurbs.  There have been some recent, favorable
reviews of their products in Corporate Technology Review, Open Systems
Today, and iX magazine from Germany.  People interested could probably
get copies by calling them at 603-880-3005.

In general, they seem to prefer demoing their products at user group
meetings, rather than sending out press releases.  They have recently
had booths at the Banyan, Wang, and Sun users groups meetings, among
others.

(The RAID 7s are the ones with the embedded operating system.)

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
From: favre@medsun.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Distributed Systems
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:40:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Hello network!

I've just begun to work in the Distributed System field.
I would like to read papers, reviews, or books presenting the
'state-of-the-art' in this field, especially in the UNIX domain 
(OSF/Mach (DCE), Amoeba, etc.) and in the PC domain (????).
Any help will be appreciated!


		Eric Favre, PhD student, University of Geneva

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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: On debugging (was Re: Microkernel for Real-Time Computing)
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:41:53 GMT
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Originator: osr@ftp

In article <1giuu1INNmp3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> tage@cs.utwente.nl (Tage Stabell-kuloe) writes:
>     Which (in this context) is a software-engineering solution to a 
>     debugging problem.

So is pretty much ALL memory protection hardware, no? After all, Burroughs
showed you didn't REALLY need all that stuff, right?

>     There is no such thing as a free lunch.  It is more expensive for one 
>     service in the kernel to [insert your favourite IPC mechanism here] in 
>     order to inform another part of some event, then just jumping to it. 

Sure, but if you simultaneously speed up IPC (like, by making the kernel
small enough to fit in the on-chip cache) then everything in the system
becomes faster. If you speed up IPC enough, it becomes lost in the noise.
If one of the reasons for the kernel's speed is its size, you slow things
down by moving them back in.

Personally, I think the ideal solution would be to provide a binary interface
to the kernel that reains the same whether you're running in the kernel
address space or not, so moving things into and out of the kernel simply
becomes a matter of performance tuning.
-- 
Peter da Silva
From: gupta@crhc.uiuc.edu (Aloke Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: "Protocol-level" profiling of client-server interaction
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:40:44 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois Center for Reliable & High Performance
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Originator: osr@ftp


   In my graduate work I have proposed an approach called "Protocol-level
   Profiling" (PLP) for characterizing client-server interaction. The basic
   idea behind PLP is to checkpoint the interaction between the client and the
   server and then estimate the computation invoked on the server by carefully
   assigning a cost to each of the messages on the basis of its attributes.

   I have written a profiler, Xprof, which is a protocol-level profiler
   for X Window applications. It is available by anonymous ftp from
   roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu (128.174.197.134)
   under pub/Xprof.

   Question:
  ---------
   I am curious to know if such a strategy has been used to characterize any
   other client-server system.  Any pointers?

   I will summarize and post all such responses.

   Thank you in advance

   Aloke Gupta
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From: mueller@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Peter Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Summary: Load sharing/load balancing papers
Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:31:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Originator: osr@ftp

Hello,

I've posted an article some days ago, in which I've 
asked for papers, articles, documentation, and/or any 
information about load sharing, load balancing, or 
related topics, especially available via anonymous ftp.

I've received 6 answers from

Jan de Jongh (dejongh@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL)
Fred Douglis (douglis@MITL.COM)
Chris McDonald (chris@cs.uwa.edu.au)
Dejan S. Milojicic (dejan@informatik.uni-kl.de)
Jonathan M. Spencer (J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk)
Tolga Yazar (C59435@trmetu.bitnet)

I wish to thank all of you. Many of them were so kind 
to send me their bibliographies, in which plenty of
good references can be found.

As I think that such bibliographies are too big to be
posted, let me give you the following offer: If you are
interested in those bibliographies, send me a mail and
I will send them to you.

Cheers,
	Peter Mueller

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From: theel@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Oliver Theel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Info about "Mobile Computing" required
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:41:56 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Hello!

  "Mobile Computing" - this buzz word becomes more and more famous
  (and the technique behind it more and more important). Due to
  the nature of *innovative things* in general, gathering information
  about what it really is or what its advantages are becomes a
  difficult aim. 

  This is were we need your help: 

  As part of a research project, we would like to collect as much
  information as possible which is somehow related to "mobile computing".
  To be more specific: references to papers e.g. are highly appreciated
  as well as references to projects claiming to cover (or touch)
  "mobile computing". 

  Thanx in advance for your support,

Oliver

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From: Martin Vorbeck <vorbeck@ira.uka.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Help needed on 16-bit ASCII!
Followup-To: comp.os.misc
Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:32:18 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Hi!

Some time ago I heard that some new operating system (for PC?)
will be using a 16bit ASCII-like representation.
This way it will be possible to represent 65535 symbols,
i.e. nearly all characters used throughout the world.

Can anyone tell me more about this, especially
if it is possible to get access to this table.
I would like to use the appropriate numbering for chinese,
japanese and korean symbols (and others), for compatibility reasons.
Has anyone a copy of the actual table (postscript or other)?

Any help or pointers most appreciated !

Thanks in advance !

email to: vorbeck@ira.uka.de

-- Martin Vorbeck