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From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SoniqTracker .52 & ModZap .80
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:55:46 GMT
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Sun Jul 19 92 at 08:30:53 (EST)

I downloaded these version from AOL this morning and started playing various
mods with them. 
 
ST seemed (overall) to handle more mods cleanly but went wacko on StarDust
(which ModZap played quite nicely).
 
ModZap's chief fault at this time is still aborting the sound on some
instruments. Mods that demonstrate this are Enigma and SheDrivesMeCrazy. ST
works fine on these. 
 
It looks like MZ is heading towards heading towards adding a MOD editor, which
is pretty cool. ST seems to be the better Jukebox player right now.
 
BTW, I've got one mod (pulled from a LHA archive) that kills both players, and
I'm not sure if it is a bad file or simply a mod that neither can play. It is
called BladeRunner. 
 
If I load it into ST with NO Inits or DAs installed ST reports Error 0 (No
err) has occured. Go figure. If I have inits and DAs installed (normal boot)
and try to load it, ST dies into the monitor.
 
[I think Ian doesn't have Inet access right now, but if someone knows him
personally and can pass this along to him, I'd appreciate it.]

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jasonp@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jason Perez)
Subject: Re: CV Tech GS-Ram Card
Reply-To: jasonp@fantasia.UUCP (Jason Perez)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:55:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.142344.15808@ils.nwu.edu> chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan) writes:
>First of all, I'm not going to want to pay an arm-and-a-let just to get some
>more fast-cashe for the ZIP.  Has anyone (I know there have been people) filled
>their ZIPs with 64k cache on their own?  If you have, can you tell me what
>companies you used to buy your chips, what speed, and anything else you'd
>deam pertinent information for me to have?  I'd really appreciate some help.

   i upgraded from 32K to 64K by adding two SRAM 62256LP 32Kx8 chips (i think
that's the right part number).  i got them from Microprocessors Unlimited for about 
$12/chip.  don't know their number offhand, but they advertise in Computer Shopper.

>Secondly, I want to also get more memory into my C.V. Tech card.  I have been
>doomed by the AME card, but I can at least get more into the C.V. Tech.  What
>kind of chips should I get for it, and where should I get them?  Can someone
>also tell me how fast the chips should be?  I probably want to get about 2 more
>MegaBytes of memory, and if I can do this for under $60, I'd like to really
>try.
>
    i picked up 2Mb of DRAM from TMS for $76.  for the CV-Tech card you need
8 1Mbx1-120ns CAS before RAS chips for each megabyte.  Microprocessors Unlimited 
also carries these for $34/mb (the DRAM's around 80ns are cheapest).

-- 
Jason Perez                             | 
jasonp@fantasia.sps.mot.com             | "Gig 'em!"     "Frodo lives!"
j0p7771@sigma.tamu.edu                  | "Don't have a cow man!"
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From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,news.groups
Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.apple2 moderation: why not?
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:26:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Jul23.073857.1784@klaava.Helsinki.FI> cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:
>In article <n2fmp7c.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:

[...]
 
>>>> Are there any compelling
>>>>reasons -to- moderate. None have yet been posted. All the plusses have been
>>>>basically that it will prevent a few annoyances.
>>>>
>>>
>>>It depends on what you mean by compelling. Life-threatening? Definitely
>>>not. However, without any valid reasons for not moderating, why
>>>shouldn't we prevent those 'few annoyances'?
>>
>>Because the cost of the solution could be very great. Moderation has
>>made the ms-dos binaries group an absolute joke. The MS-DOS world is
>>doing great, and can survive without a working binaries group. Apple
>>itself has stopped supporting the Apple//, and there is a need for a
>>working binaries group.
>
>What makes you sure it's moderation that has destroyed the MS-DOS
>binaries group?

Try reading the .d group. It was really rather amusing.
 
>>  
>>>The two reasons why I'll be voting YES _unless_ a _valid_ no reason crops up
>>>are descriptive headers and uncorrupted archives. There are others, but
>>>they don't mean much to me.
>>
>>Again, what do you care? You are neither a poster or a lurker in the apple2
>>groups, or you would not have to ask questions like you do above. Vote as
>
>1) I do post - messages. I haven't posted binaries - yet.

Did not recognise your sig at first, but now I do. 

>2) What the hell is a lurker?

A lurker is someone who reads a group, but does not post.	

>3) What (inappropriate) questions have I asked?

As the proposal is to -add- moderation, the appropriate thing to do
is give reasons for moderation. Asking "why not" completely misses the
target. And even if there were no good reasons why not, that would not
be a reason for moderation.
 
>>you wish, but I cannot see why you would vote at all. Do you even have an
>>Apple //? The vote would not affect you at all unless you do. But your
>>vote could have a negative impact upon the actual users of the groups.
>>Not that you seem to care.
>
>Good Christ. First of all, I have an Apple IIgs. Secondly, I download
>lots of stuff, so I _do_ have an interest. Meaning also, I am an 'actual
>user'.

Great. More than that, from a post I read yesterday, you seem to be
a backup (whatrever) moderator. Although I think that having some
fimiliarity with posting and it's problems would be essential for
a moderator of the binaries group. 

>Finally, loosen up. Don't turn this into personal attacks. Nobody is
>trying to destroy c.b.a2.

OK, sorry. Mid-terms have left me a bit tense. 
 
>-- 
>-Tero Sand

Rich

payner@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
Subject: Re: 80 column screen quality
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:22:46 GMT

spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

>In article <92202.162602KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>, KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu writes...
>>I have found that white text on a green background gives you the best read-
>>ability with the 80 column text screen.  They use white chalk on green chalk
>>boards these days right!

>  Actually the default color settings in the control panel are -almost- close 
>to something readable. Apple has the 'standard' set to white text with medium
>blue, but I found white text with dark blue gives a nice look.

I use Aquamarine text on a dark blue background.  This means I can set
the brightness/contrast level such that it doesn't blind me when I'm
using the Apple GUI (black text on white).  Plus I think it's the
kindest on my eyes in all sorts of lighting conditions.

>Speaking of 80-columns text, I prefer the text display on my IIgs than to
>what's available on my (gak!) Messy-DOS machine in 80-columns text.

Can't agree with this though.  MSDOS machines all have crisper looking
text on any modern video card/monitor combination.  It is easier to
read by a long shot.  I do agree though that their choice of font
could be better.  I also really like the fact that each character can
have a difference foreground and background color.  Apple should have
done this on the IIgs (but there would go the compatibility).
-- 
Jerry Penner   jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dpj@hubcap.clemson.edu (D. Pokrass Jacobs)
Subject: Launching Appleworks question
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:03:08 GMT

I am using Appleworks GS 1.1.
Is it true that Appleworks can be launched
from the Finder by simply double-clicking
any Appleworks document?  When I try this,
the computer seems to be trying to access the
floppy disk drive rather than the hard drive,
and then I get an error like "Application Appleworks.GS
not found".  Any advice?

Dave Jacobs
dpj@cs.clemson.edu
-- 
David P. Jacobs
Department of CS, Clemson University, Clemson SC  29634-1906 
(803) 656-5872
e-mail:	dpj@hubcap.clemson.edu
From: scottba@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Amiga.FST
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:23:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Jul29.182341.19224
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI

philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:

>The video toaster is great, but the $2000 is just the start. You don't get the
$1500, not $2000. 

>AMAX II+ does not run colour. It uses the 128k Mac+ ROM's. It takes
>computer completely(i.e. you can't multitask Mac and Amiga programs
>together. You are probably thinking of the "vapourware" Emplant product.

ERRRT.  WRONG. DEAD WRONG.  I HAVE seen the beta version of AMAX II+.
You just desribed AMAX II.  VERSION II+ DOES the FX to a tee.  
Well, you said $300 was just a start.  Well, yeah.  I have had to spend
gobs on my //GS.  RAMFAST, HARD DRIVE, ZIP GSX, SONIC BLASTER, RAM. 
You need to spend money to improve any computer company's low end
model.  The 3000 gives you 68030 or 68040 at 20+ mhz for much less than
any color mac.  The funniest thing was running Soft PC mac version from
AMAX. !!

>I would suggest you get your facts straight before making any decisions at
>all w.r.t. computer purchasing.

I would suggest you see what I'm talking about before posting. 
If it were legal, I would send what I used to you. I'm not a beta
tester of AMAX II+, but AMIGA users have definately taken the piracy
helps me attitude (and have enough hackers to keep good software around
without software companies) so I got to see it anyway.

>Philip McDunnough
>nextwave!seacove!philip@epas.utoronto.ca

Scott Anderson
acct040@carroll1.cc.edu
From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Music Contruction set to Soundsmith
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:36:10 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon Jul 27 92 at 21:15:37 (EST)

> From: isc10327@nusunix3.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE)
> Excuse me, but does SoundSmith ACTUALLY support MIDI input/ouput??
> I've seen version 0.94 but it doesn't support any MIDI interface at all.
> Also, is the author still writing the program?  Haven't heard any news
> about it for a long time.  Would like to buy the program if he actually
> finishes it.

SoundSmith v1.0 did support Midi Input. The interface was crude but usable.
SoundSmith v1.0 will not ever see the official light of day, because some
beta-tester for SevenHills Software released it on a pirate board, which
pissed off the author, who then stopped all further work on the project
 
THIS IS THE DAMAGED CAUSED BY PIRACY! The rest of the story is this,
SevenHills was mainly interested in a complete overhaul of the program so as
to give the Midi part a decent interface, the author was willing to do this,
until the piracy business came out. SevenHills was pissed, the author was
pissed, and the rest of the GS community should be pissed. 
 
Yes, I'm a SevenHills beta tester and I'm pissed. SevenHills beta-testing
procedure is more security conscious now (and less people too). I don't know
who the irresponsible beta-testers were, nor if they were caught. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dhua@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Hua)
Subject: More 3200 pic questions
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:49:41 GMT


	Apparently, my previous post didn't make it to the net.  Here
are my questions again.  I have a program called Super View which allows
you to convert 3200 uncompressed files to 3200 compressed files, but
these compressed files are saved as $C0, aux $0002 files.  Many paint
and graphics programs assume these to be 16 color compressed files,
and the pictures don't load correctly.  Are there any programs besides
Super View which load 3200 compressed files correctly?  Super Convert
or Dream Grafix?  Also, are there programs which convert 3200 pictures
to 3201 format, even though this is not standard format?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnp@silver.lcs.mit.edu (John Palaima)
Subject: TimeTrax II
Originator: johnp@silver.lcs.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Lab for Computer Science
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:04:34 GMT

Someone was discussing with me that they would give me Timetrax to replace the damaged one on my floppy so I can usemy seiko datagraph watch.. Please Reply
-- 
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johnp@pro.angmar.uucp                        (Zaphod Beeblbrox)
bl298@cleveland.freenet.edu         Coming soon -> johnp@bcs.org
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,news.groups
From: len@mel.dit.csiro.au (Len Makin)
Subject: Re:CFP:Fifth Australian Supercomputing Conference 1992
Followup-To: comp.sys.super
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 01:11:32 GMT


Sorry about the double length posting. When I tried (twice) to post
on Friday,it failed. There was some problem with our news system
which then combined my attempts into a dead.letter file.
This morning I (stupidly) used this as my posting to save redoing all
the header fields. :{  There's no "unpost" command either. Sorry all.

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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: Fujitsu Supercomputer Statement of Direction
Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:58:22 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.super
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I have seen alot of press releases that were low on content, but after finding
this one for the third time, I have decided that it definitely takes the cake.
Without getting rid of any facts about the computer or directions of the company
this should be rewritten as:

  After experimenting with several parallel technologies, Fujitsu has build a
  300 GFLOP machine with hundreds of processors.

The end.

Jason W. Solinsky
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: jgardner@convex.com (John B. Gardner)
Subject: Re: Fujitsu and America
Summary: Foreign Supercomputers in US
Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing, foreign
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: comp.sys.super
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:18:51 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

This probably belongs in a .politics newsgroup, but since it involves super
computing and started here, I'm puting it here...

In article <40173@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> gvw@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Greg Wilson) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.152513.27457@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
>> ....I know the USA will
>> make sure that its laws (both written and in the works) prevent its profitable
>> sale in the US. I'm not unhappy about that, BTW. In fact I rather like it...
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Jason W. Solinsky
>
>Aah, America, the home of free enterprise ... 


Hold on a minute.  As easy as it would be for me to do flag waving about
American jobs and so forth (which I believe in), I believe there's a logical 
reason for the U.S. government to mandate U.S. manufactured supercomputers
for many installations.

Namely this;  A very large number of supercomputers purchased by the govt.
are for military or security operations (note, I don't *know* this, but I'd
say it's a pretty safe bet).  Relying on a foreign power for support, parts,
maintenance, etc. of a component that would be critical in wartime would be
extremely dangerous.

Now i hardly expect we will ever go to war with Japan, but lines of 
comunication and shipping capabilities could be seriously hampered if we
were at war with _anyone_.

Imagine if the JEWC operations center, which was of critical importance
during "Desert Storm" had as its main computer equipment developed, built,
and maintained from Iraq.  Get the picture?  We (the U.S.), were in fact
aided in our war effort by U.S. computer parts (printers) which had been
shipped to Iraq and covertly modified for just such an occurence.

Yes, I work for a U.S. manufacturer of supercomputers, so my opinion is no
doubt biased, but the above arguement still has merit, IMHO.

jgardner
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From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Inner product / AXPY performance
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:52:15 GMT
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

Yo hardcore number crunchers!

I would like to get an idea of the difference in performance
between inner products

       do i=1,n    x = x + a(i)*b(i)

and axpy operations

       do i=1,n   x(i) = x(i) + a*b(i)

which both have the same number of operations, but the inner product
has an accumulation, which traditionally seems to be an
unvectorizable idea.

Please post if you know how your favourite vector processor / vector
chip / Risc processor / whatever performs differently / the same
on the two.

My guess would be that the difference between these two operations
can nowadays be conveniently neglected, but I might be wrong.

Victor.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: marcoz@CS.CMU.EDU (Marco Zagha)
Subject: Re: Looking for Super '92 call for papers
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 23:20:51 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Reply-To: marcoz+@cs.cmu.edu
Originator: marcoz@GS70.SP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <1992Jul23.180444.23380@news2.cis.umn.edu> lpaul@krissy.msi.umn.edu (Paul Morin) writes:

   I mistakenly deleted the Supercomputing '92 call for papers.  Could someone  
   send me a copy please.

Information about Supercomputing '92 is available by anonymous FTP
to ftp.ucar.edu in the 'sc92' directory.

Main deadlines:
        papers/panels:     April 1, 1992 (too late)
        posters:           August 1, 1992
        research exhibits: August 1, 1992
        animation:         Sept 1, 1992
        
== Marco Zagha
Internet: marcoz@cs.cmu.edu            Uucp:   ...!seismo!cs.cmu.edu!marcoz  
Bitnet:   marcoz%cs.cmu.edu@carnegie   CSnet:  marcoz%cs.cmu.edu@relay.cs.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: zaphiri@watson.ibm.com (Zaphiris Christidis)
Subject: Missing subject header
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:55:35 GMT
Reply-To: zaphiri@watson.ibm.com  (Zaphiris Christidis)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Greetings

Does anybody know, if there is any documentation or technical report
on Maspar, that can be uploaded from an anonymous ftp site in the
internet? Any information would be greately appreciated.

Please reply by e-mail.  Thanks.

--
Zaphiris Christidis
zaphiri(@watson.ibm.com @yktvmh.bitnet)
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: Fujitsu Supercomputer Statement of Direction
Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:08:11 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.super
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

In article <Bs274H.BA5@news.fai.com> siamak@ossi.com (Siamak Hassanzadeh) writes:
 >            FUJITSU UNVEILS ITS SUPERCOMPUTING STRATEGY
...
Sometime ago somebody wondered about the amount of press-releases that
were posted from about the new Cray.  Well, this is the third time I
read this press-release.  Can't FAI coordinate their press-releases?
I found one back in comp.parallel (same text, different poster), and
there has been a third one, but I cannot find it; probably it was over
4 days ago.  I think that posting press-releases is not bad in itself,
what makes it bad is posting the same press-release multiple times to
either the same or to different newsgroups.  The last time I objected
to this was with Alliants campus effort.  Look where that got them ;-).

Peeved, dik
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: cutler@equator.com (Ben Cutler)
Subject: Re: Fujitsu and America
Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing, foreign
Organization: Equator Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA
Distribution: comp.sys.super
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:25:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.181851.12025@news.eng.convex.com> jgardner@convex.com (John B. Gardner) writes:
>...  Relying on a foreign power for support, parts,
>maintenance, etc. of a component that would be critical in wartime would be
>extremely dangerous.
>
>Yes, I work for a U.S. manufacturer of supercomputers, so my opinion is no
>doubt biased, but the above arguement still has merit, IMHO.

Last time I checked, your company (Convex) bought most of its memory
chips from the Japanese, and you used a Japanese fab for your cpu gate
arrays for the C1 and C2 series machines.  Unless I'm mistaken, the
fab you used was in fact Fujitsu's.

So, assuming your argument in favor of "American" vendors has merit, why
should the military favor Convex over Fujitsu?

                                        Ben Cutler
                                        cutler@equator.com
From: herzog@ux5.lbl.gov (Hanan M. Herzog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: GNU C Compiler on UNICOS
Keywords: compiler, gnu, port
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:43:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.super
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Has the GNU C compiler been ported to Cray's UNICOS?

Please reply by e-mail.

Thanks,

Hanan Herzog
herzog@ux5.lbl.gov


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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super