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From: rg@datcon.co.uk (Richard Gledhill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:40:47 GMT
Organization: Data Connection Ltd
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Alan Sawyer (Alan.Sawyer@f253.n633.z3.fidonet.org) wrote:
: 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!!! 
:  
:  
: ... OFFLINE 1.40 * Amiga are Crap!!! 
:  * Origin: The 999 Planes of Hell +61-3-796-2180 -  (3:633/253)

Sad, isn't it, that some people can be so narrow-minded.  A Sega
MegaDrive with the CD-ROM will indeed be good at games, but it's so
hopeless at anything else.  Anyone who has even seen an Amiga in action
will know that the opinion of an Amiga as a 'games machine and nothing
else' is rubbish;  this attitude is the bane of all Amiga users around
the world.

I'm the first to admit that the PC has more number-crunching power than
a normal Amiga and has a much broader and well-established user-base of
business software, but I'm afraid that the Amiga can beat a PC hands
down when it comes to sound, graphics, video and ease of use.  How many
people realise that some parts of Windows 3 were based on parts of the
Amiga Workbench 2 OS?

I'm glad to see that you acknowledge that the current fastest Amigas
(A3000s with 68040 50MHz accelerator cards) blow the brains out of any
486; just wait until Motorola release the 68060 (which is the next chip
Commodore-Amiga are supposed to be using in the next generation of
Amigas) - it's unimaginable, the speed and power of these new
processors.

So to sum up - PC's are good for business, but are being held back by
archaic architecture and are pretty awful at games, video and sound;
the Sega MegaDrive + CD-ROM is good for games but nothing else; the
Amiga is the best for video and sound, and if you add the A570 CD-ROM
drive to the Amiga (which is already on sale), then it can easily beat
the Sega hollow.

All I want is for people to think twice before they condemn the Amiga
as a games machine.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
Subject: Re: the HP Deskjet - - info wanted
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:33:42 GMT

pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>In article <62890012@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM) writes:
>=<xiongtou@cda.mrs.umn.edu> writes;
>=
>=| I have been using HP Deskjet 500 for two years now and had no problem
     .
     .
     .
>=Regards
>=Richard Lim     "A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking"
>=======================================================================
>=E-mail:  hpsgm2.SGP.HP.COM!limrcd   Snail-mail: Hewlett-Packard S'pore

>I have a peripheral question (no pun intended!): what are the
>differences between the 500C and the 550C?

The 550c has both a black and color cartridge in it at the same time so you
can get true black with color, where as before you either got all black, or
color with a composite black(kind of dark green).

The 550c also has a better paper tray, IMO.  The addition of both cartridges
at the same time is the main change thou.

Todd

>Thanks and happy holidays.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kogan@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Boris Kogan)
Subject: Advanced Integration Research
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 00:26:15 GMT


Does anybody know the address and/or phone number for Advanced Integration
Research, a motherboard manufacturer -- knowledge of city only would also
be helpful. 

Thanks in advance, and Season's Greetings=================================
From: doyle@cs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Talk about hardware issues for i486 multiprocessor
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:45:56 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Originator: doyle@freya.cs.umass.edu


	I was wondering if anyone would like to discuss issues that 
pertain to multiprocessing on PC architecture machines. It has been some
time since I've played in the hdware sandbox of the ix86 world - much 
has changed. In particular, I'd like address the two areas that are crucial
to the possibility of SMP on standard, low-cost, high-volume hardware:
bus technologies and cache controller chips.

	As far as I know, EISA provides not only high-bandwith but also 
multiple bus master arbitration facilities. What about the new LocalBus (VL)
technology - does it support standard signalling to allow for multiple
bus masters to contend for the common systems bus?

	What about arbitration methodology? In both the case of EISA and
VL bus technology, does bus arbitration logic allow for the guaranteed
mastership during execution of atomic memory operations (CAS,TAS, etc.) ?
These are critical to maintaining synchronization and semaphore locking 
in the OS kernel. 

	Finally, we have to look at issues of cache coherency. Are there 
any chipsets on the market which are capable of doing bus-snooping ?? 

	I've done alot of work with Mach 3.0 on an i486 box. In an upcoming
job, I will be porting Mach 3.0 to a symmetric multiprocessor SGI PowerSeries
box (eight MIPS R3000's). In the future, there maybe some interest in using
my knowledge to due a similar implementation on cheap, commercial i486
hardware provided that the existing hardware base can accomodate.

..... Jim Doyle   (doyle@cs.umass.edu , jdoyle@mdphya.phy.umassd.edu )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ozcomert@wam.umd.edu (John Ozcomert)
Subject: the HP Deskjet - - info wanted
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:49:17 GMT

Hi
I am on the verge of purchasing the HP Deskjet 500 and need to know what 
problems people have had with it.  Please e-mail me with particulars and
thanks in advance for your input. 
John  (ozcomert@wam.umd.edu)
From: junglee@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Jung S. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Can Maxtor 7213A(IDE 213 MB) beep?!?!?!?!?
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:34:10 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Dear netters:

I am runnign OS/2 on my taiwan made 386DX upgradable to 486DX with 8
MB and Maxtor 7213A. About a week ago, I tried to install Zoom v.32bis
internal fax modem on com 4.  It worked first time, but next day when
I turn my computer, OS/2 gave me errors with com.sys and vcom.sys(I
don't that's .exe or .sys). It didn't crashed, but I couldn't use the
modem. So I tried to switch to other com ports to make it work. From
then whenever I turn my computer, it gives me HDD controller failure
and asks me to insert system diskette(This happens before loading any
operating system). So I took out the modem, but it still doesn't work.
I cannot see my harddrive from a: after I boot from DOS system
diskette(I cannot even boot from OS/2 system diskette).  And it beeps
every 5 or 10 secs as soon as I turn on my machine.  To find out where
the beeping comes from, I started to disconnect parts from power
supply. And guess what? I disconnected everything from power supply
except the hard drive(only power supply and the hard drive). And it
still beeps. I called maxtor tech support.  And the guy told me that
there are interrupt conflict and recommended me to reinitialize the
hard drive with IDE_INIT utility. But it didn't work.In base geometry,
everything(cyl...) is zero.

I will return it to repair. But how can the hard drive beep(Power
supply alone didn't beep)?  Am I missing something here?

Jung
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Subject: Re: "screen burn" on laptops?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:27:02 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Dec22.214850.23840@news.nd.edu> fdeck@bashful.helios.nd.edu (francis deck) writes:
>A friend has an old Zenith laptop, which he bought used.  There
>is a fair amount of "burn" on the LCD screen, sort of like the
>screen burn effect you see on CRT displays.  Anyway, my question
>is:  Has this problem been solved?  How many hours of operation
>on a typical LCD before it shows this effect?  Is it less of a
>problem on expensive machines, or machines with active matrix
>LCD, e.g. PowerBook?

Scott Bruck, at Matsushita Display Research Labs in Osaka assures me that
modern LCD displays cannot be burned in or damaged by displaying any particular
pattern. (Gas plasma displays, according to some netters' experience, are
another story).

Scott is working on a much-requested FAQ series on LCD displays; I have
a draft of the first installment which he sent me just before going
on vacation for the holidays. It looks real good ... stay tuned.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
Subject: Re: info on WD1002S-WX2 controller
Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:40:47 GMT

Western Digital BBS is at 1-714-756-4787

Or check simtel MSDOS/DSKUTL for

WD.ZIP
WDPRODS.ZIP

Merry Christmas,

              --Kirt

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From: 2huwneath@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Question on Actix GraphicsEngine 32
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:17:47 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hello,

I am thinking of buying a Windows accelerator and I would like to find
out more about what is available. The ads always talk about the nice things
and not the downsides. I read articles about accelerators I recently read 
about Actix GraphicsEngine 32 in the January 1993 edition of BYTE. For its 
price, it seems like a good deal. I am wondering whether anyone has experience
with it. However, my real question is whether it (or any other accelerator 
card )will make a big difference in a 386SX system with 8MB of RAM and a 236MB
SCSI HD (11ms access time, w/ Adaptec 1542B). (I am not sure whether 
GraphicsEngine 32 is a recent release or not.) I like the number of colors it 
provides at high resolutions. As far as remember, other cards within the same
price range do not provide as many colors as the GraphicsEngine 32. Its 1MB 
version retails for $199 according to BYTE (maximum RAM 2 MB). I guess one 
would need to get 2 MB to get 16.7 million colors at 640x480 resolution and
65,536 colors at 800x600 or 1024x768.

I would appreaciate any advises or comments,
Posting or email are both fine. Please respond as you like.

Thank you,

Huseyin Sevay
University of Kansas

email   sevay@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
   or   hsevay@tesla.ece.ukans.edu
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:44:15 EST
From: <RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DeskWriter/Deskjet in a mixed (PC/Mac) environment

In article <1992Dec29.013309.24612@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
vmp@pathfinder.JPL.NASA.gov (Vincent Pollmeier) says:
>
>I am currently in the position of trying to find an econonmical solution
>to providing color output capability to a relatively small group of personal
>computer users.  The users are using a number of IBM-clones (mostly 386
>machines, including two notebook computers) and Apple Macintoshes (LC's, LC   s
>II'
>and others).  The question I have is given there relatively similar design, is
>there any simple way to allow either the DeskWriter 550C or the similar
>machine
>intended for the PC market to be usable for both sets of machines.

One of the neat things about HP DeskJet 500 series is that they come
withboth serial & parallel ports, both active. You can hook both
PCs & MACs (MACs need apprpriate drivers) to them. I *know* you can
hook one of each (PC & MAC) to a DJ500; not sure how you'd network
a bunch of 'em in. Maybe a Buffalo system?

BobM, PSU-Harrisburg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd)
Subject: USA-Flex 15" Flexvision Monitor - good?
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:51:58 GMT

I'm interested in a new 15"SVGA monitor, but noit interested enough to
pay $600+ for one of the name brand ones. The 15" Flexvision monitor,
made by Mag and sold be USA-Flex for $460, seems to have very good
specs. It appears to have the same electronics as the 15" Mag, but
without the digital controls and flat square tube for $140 less money.
That sounds like a good deal to me.

Buying a monitor without seeing it in action is a bit of a gamble, so
I'd appreciate email from anyone who has seen, or, better yet, owns
one of these monitors. If there is sufficient response, I'll summarize
to the net. Thanks,
	Mark

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: makovsky@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (MAKOFSKY,STEVEN)
Subject: IDE + RLL? Help me!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Southern Connecticut State University - Computer Center
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:58:00 GMT


Ok. Ive seen plenty of posts on using various types of drives with others.
Now, here's my question. I have a 200meg IDE drive in my machine now, and
a 80meg RLL sitting here, doing nothing. Is there any way to keep the IDE
as my C drive, and install the RLL as a secondary controller? I would like
to keep my current IDE configuration, so if anyone can suggest a controoler
card for RLL that doesnt have any floppy connections, and has the secondary
port, please let me know.. Or, if im wasting my time going this route, please
tell me what type of IDE controller I need to take care of this.. Thanks
From: lewis@oasys.dt.navy.mil (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 387/33 (IIT) with Amd386/40
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:24:08 GMT
Reply-To: lewis@oasys.dt.navy.mil (William Lewis)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, stud13@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Coekaerts) writes:
>Well,
>
>Can anybody tell me whether it's possible to put a 33Mhz Coproc.
>on my board ? It's a 386/40. The reason why is that the 33Mhz
>version costs me half of what a 40Mhz version costs....
>
>Just curious whether it can take the 'heat' ???
>
>Please lemme know.
>thnx
>Wim

I just put a 387/40 Mhz math co in my computer (386/40) and in the process
I found that I could have used a 33MHz chip instead. All it took was
setting one of the jumpers to asynchronise (sp?) operation for the 33
to work with a 40. But why bother, maybe you haven't priced out the
math-co's lately they're pretty cheap now and the cost difference is
almost neglible.  I paid $79 + tax for mine two weeks ago which might
have been maybe $10 more than the 33MHz chip.
I'm just glad I didn't know how to set this up when the 33's were $125
and the 40's were around $200 or more...

Bill (lewis@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.intel
From: dave@yggdrasil.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David Lee Matuszek)
Subject: Re: Completing tasks under the desktop metaphor
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:02:39 GMT

In article <id.5JYV._AH@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
|> 
|> Personally, I find the Mac model where applications have this strange undead
|> life after you've quit working on the file associated with them quite
|> disturbing. I feel it VERY strongly violates the desktop metaphor, and
|> I'm frequently caught out when there's some application lying around in
|> the background eating up memory with no visual indication that it exists.

I agree.  It should be part of the Human Interface Guidelines that
every open application has at least one open window.  Many applications
do this, though usually it's with an annoying Standard File Open dialog
box.  A simple little logo, or a fairly nonobtrusive About box, would
be fine, if there isn't something more appropriate.

Of course, if the user hides all the application's windows, then you
should let it be hidden.

IMHO, of course.  I'm quite used to quitting everybody else's
applications when I sit down to our public Mac, so it doesn't bother me.

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My old address is:  dave@prc.unisys.com     (expires soon)
My new address is:  dave@vfl.paramax.com    (please use this one)

My mailer is unlikely to get either of them right :-(
From: rusty@cs.utexas.edu (Christopher Russell Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: TEAC FD505 Combo Drive
Date: 29 Dec 1992 07:53:41 -0600
Organization: University of Texas at Austin, Dept of Computer Sciences
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: levelland.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: teac, floppy drive

Has anyone successfully installed a TEAC FD505 Dual Floppy Drive with
an internal QIC-40 (Archive 5540i) tape drive running off the floppy
controller?  I know it's possible to hook up the 5540i with 2 floppy drives
using only a 3 connector floppy cable, no add-in board is necessary, but
the DS and terminating resistor combination eludes me.  The FD505 is
set to use DS 1 and DS 2 and the 5540i to use DS 3, but the tape backup
software doesn't seem to find the tape drive at DS 3.
 
Any suggestions?
 
RuSTy,
rusty@cs.utexas.edu
From: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: If you have an EVEREX modem,please read
Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:36:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu




I just got an everex ev-920 1200 baud modem in the mail.
I have no documentation for it though.
If you have one and have docs,please leave me mail as I need to know how
to set it up for my system.
Thanks
Rob
From: fdeck@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (francis deck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: "Reconditioned" notebook PCs...
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:30:59 GMT
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame

I've seen some ads for "reconditioned" notebook PCs, at low
price.  I realize that these are not brand-new machines, and
that there is probably some risk, but the prices are quite
attractive.  My question is:  To what extent are these PCs
reconditioned?  Are they ones which were returned for repair
and repaired, or bought used and cleaned up, or what?

Does anyone have any experience on buying a reconditioned
notebook?

Next question... Can the large LCD on a notebook PC be
damaged by extremes in storage temperature, esp. cold?  I
live in Indiana, and would not mind having a computer which
I could safely carry around during the winter.

f.deck                
physics
u. of notre dame
From: jschonk@matd.gatech.edu (John B. Schonk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Conner Hard Drive Jumpers
Keywords: Conner, Hard drive
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:57:26 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

I have recently aquired a second Conner CP30101 IDE drive.
I seem to have misplaced the jumper settings required to set the
second unit as a slve drive.  I remember seeing some discussion
about that on this group awhile back.

Can anyone help??

Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: modus@gagme.chi.il.us (Patrick M. Kane)
Subject: Info Needed Concerning CM-201 Optical Drive
Originator: modus@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:59:31 GMT


I recently acquired a magnetic/optical drive from a system that I gutted.
The drive is of the type CM-201 and is marketed by the Laser Magnetic Storage
International Company, OSI Division.  It appears to have been originally
manufactured by
Philips in Eindhoven, Holland.  The drive appears to be containing a disk of
some sort, but I have been unable to eject it.

Attached to the drive was the interface card, of the model CM-153.  The
Interface Card and the Drive appear to be compatible and the drive spins when
under power.

Unfortunatly, I have no information about either the interface card or the
drive.  If anyone can give me the phone number of the manufacturer, software
drivers for an IBM PC or any other information concerning this drive, I would
greatly appreciate it.  Please E-Mail me at the address contained in the header
of the message.

Thank you for your help!

Patrick Kane
modus@gagme.chi.il.us

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.minix,comp.os.linux
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Repost: Re: Good book on PC hardware programming ??????
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:52:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.205343.8932@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk> mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell) writes:
>Anyone out there know of a good book, or possibly some ftpable docs,
>on low level PC hardware programming. eg the ins & outs of the FDC
>and how to format tracks, etc. etc.

My standard recommendation for this is:

	PC Intern, System Programming
    by	Michael Tischer
	Abacus, 1992
	ISBN 1-55755-145-6
	$60.00 US

This book has over 1000 pages of detailed descriptions and source
listings in Quick Basic, Turbo Pascal, assembly language, and C.
It also includes a diskette with all of the source code as well as
assembled object code for any assembly language modules required for
the Basic, Pascal, and C examples.

The book seldom drops below the level of the BIOS interface, so it
doesn't address the specifics of how to twiddle the FDC, etc.  IMO, the
best references for direct interface to the hardware are usually the
individual device data sheets.

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Won't boot to hard disk-tries to enter ROM basic
Date: 25 Dec 1992 03:49:45 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu

I've been using a Maxtor XT-1140 for several months now with no problems.
I just got another one given to me this week. They are 114MB MFM drives.
I changed the jumpers on teh new one to be a secondary drive and hooked it
up to my controller, formatted it (with '/S') and copied all the  files
from the old disk to the new one. I reset the jumpers on the old one to make
it the primary (1st) drive, and took the old one out of the computer.
During all this activity I had the CMOS RAM set correctly for how ever many 
disks there were installed at that time.
Now when I reboot the computer, the system goes through the video BIOS and
system BIOS check fine, then, without any error messages about bad disks
or anything, the video switches into 40 col mode and displays the message
"NO BASIC ROM"
"SYSTEM HALTED"

I'm completely baffled. Anyone have any ideas?
				-ted-

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