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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long...
From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:24:44 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

gudjm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au writes:
>
>Just out of curiosity... out of all of you hackers who wear a digital
>watch, how many have it in 24 hour mode?

Nobody sets it to 12 hour mode in most of Europe, that's just one of the
little peculiarities which other people find so amusing about the English-
speaking countries :-)
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: Josef Moellers <mollers.pad@sni.de>
Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long...
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:15:20 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Keywords: workstation, hacking, risks

In <1992Jul23.152757.1506@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> gudjm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (D John McKenna) writes:

>hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker) writes:

>> Anyone else logged onto a machine to issue a `show time' command when
>> one is wearing a perfectly good watch?

>Just out of curiosity... out of all of you hackers who wear a digital
>watch, how many have it in 24 hour mode?

Exclude Europeans (at least Germans) from Your list! 24 hour mode is
standard over here B-{) Does this make us the better hackers?
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From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: How can I get IBM m Systems Journal?
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:17:10 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo


The library here used to get the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletins and System Journals.  They don't get them anymore.  Can a mere mortal such as myself order them?  How much would they cost me?

Yeah, I know I could just call my lcoal office( probably), but Its OS/2 Installation TIME again, and I think they get enough calls from me during an average week.
-- 
Brett Person
Guest Account	
North Dakota State University
person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Mercury memory (was Re: Cathode ray memory)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:33:12 GMT

ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!) writes:
>A friend once told me about a research project he was involved with that
>involved storing bits in a laser beam bounced off the moon.
*----
What's the use of a computer that only works on cloudless nights?
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.protocols.time.ntp
From: wollman@sal.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Multiple Wristwatches
Keywords: workstation, hacking, risks
Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:45:53 GMT

In article <1840@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP writes:

>In article <1992Jul28.020456.3176@telesoft.com> kst@telesoft.com writes:

>>The one on my right wrist (with the scientific and hex calculators) is
>>in 24-hour mode, and the one on my left wrist (with the phone
>>directory) is in 12-hour mode.

>>Some people have literally screamed when they've suddenly noticed that
>>I'm wearing two watches.

>I don't blame them. It would drive me nutty too. How the ^&* do you
>keep them in sync?

Say, has xntp3 been ported to a Seiko yet?

-GAWollman

-- 
   Garrett A. Wollman  = wollman@emba.uvm.edu = UVM is welcome to my opinions
                       =    uvm-gen!wollman   =
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   exists, than to bring joy to another person.    - Elf Sternberg
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dp35@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca (Greg Moore)
Subject: Gig or Jig or Gij or Jij?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:04:26 GMT

Just as a matter of interest, after posting my comment about someone
pronouncing gigabyte as "jigabyte", I'm wondering how most people
pronounce gigabyte.

If people could mail me, I'll post the results.  Personally, I prefer
"Jijibite".

Greg Moore
dp35@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: RREYNOLD@ua1vm.ua.edu (Robert F. Reynolds)
Subject: Re: More license places
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:55:47 GMT

  For all of you IBM (mainframe) users, scene on a red Jeep Cherokee on
I-65:
        IPL CMS
 
He MUST work for BellSouth!
 
  Rob
From: mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Americans who can't spell
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:26:29 GMT
Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna

From article <1818@adagio.UUCP>, by grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey):
>>Exactly. In German, the date of today is pronounced (directly translated)
>>as "17th 7th 92". Very short and efficient. Ok, you might argue that
>           ^^^
> No, that's not German, that's an abomination. In German, the months have
> names.

That's not spelled abomination, but abbreviation.
-- 
Markus Stumptner                                mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna                 vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria             ...mcsun!vexpert!mst
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: magyar@hss.caltech.edu (Ted Turo'cy)
Subject: YKYBHTLW...
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:07:23 GMT


Yet another in a seemingly endless series...

You know you've been hacking too long when you see a sign that says
"meet@noon" and start wondering whose machine "noon.caltech.edu" is...

(I did this this afternoon, and, yes, I've been hacking far too much
lately :->)

Ted Turo'cy
magyar@hss.caltech.edu
From: sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: papertape
Date: 29 Jul 1992 19:18:49 GMT
Organization: TMC
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Jul29.164858.14557@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
|> 
|> Mylar is stronger; use it for mucho-read tapes.  Better still is metalized
|> Mylar for the same reasons.  Sometimes used in carriage tapes in places
|> like Centronics Line printers.  I think one model of Tally printer included
|> a hand punch inside the printer for those without an ASR-33 or whatever 
|> available.

Great stuff, Mylar. The sure way to get the maintenance engineer REAL MAD
was to load Mylar into the punch. After several feet of tape was punched,
those neat little cylindrical punches would have become neat round-headed
punches that wouldn't even punch papertape any more.

And then there was the fact that ASR-33's and most punches guided the tape
mechanically by means of the sprocket holes in the middle ; however, the
high-speed optical readers didn't have sprockets, they aligned the tape
from the sides. Which was OK, until you got a tape where the sprocket holes
were kind of waving drunkenly around - the punch punched it OK, but the
reader didn't like it at all ...

|> btw, it's called RUBOUT because it's the code for all ones punched.  If you
|> made a mistake on a paper-tape on an ASR-33, you could backspace the tape
|> and then press RUBOUT which then changed the mistake to all holes punched
|> regardless of prior code.  Since RUBOUT codes are ignored, you then use the
|> correct code in the next frame.  The tape gets slightly longer, but doesn't
|> have to be started from scratch.
|> I think this convention was started with 5-level baudot tape.

Actually, on CCITT Baudot tape, a row with all holes punched (all five of
them) was a letter shift. So if you were using it to erase numerics, you
had to remember to start off with a figure shift. (Do I want to explain
more about Baudot? Nah - leave it for somebody else.)

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation
Cambridge, Mass 02142                                 (617) 234-5044
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: andersa@Riga.DoCS.UU.SE (Anders Andersson)
Subject: Re: Terminal intrinsics
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:56:47 GMT

In article <3378202@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
> I've had mine attached to various monochrome monitors.  It's just straight
> video out the mono port.  I suspect that feeding the colour outputs to a
> SCART plug will let you have colour on a suitably equipped TV, but don't
> quote me on that.  GIGI does tend to overscan a bit; this may be a problem.

I now use the mono port and it works as expected (the GIGI does
overscan as you say, but I consider that less of a problem to me).
However, the GIGI RGB output is specified as 1V/75ohms, while the
SCART RGB input has a much higher impedance value.  I'm afraid
analog electronics is magic to me... ;-)  Also, the GIGI provides
the sync with the green signal, but the SCART plug requires a
separate sync lead (wave characteristic unknown to me).

Unfortunately, I've been unable to locate a detailed technical
spec of the SCART interface, only quick summaries telling which
lead is which.  Not that I'm convinced it would help me...
--
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University
Paper Mail: Box 520, S-751 20 UPPSALA, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170   EMail: andersa@DoCS.UU.SE
From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Gig or Jig or Gij or Jij?
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:51:46 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

dp35@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca (Greg Moore) writes:

>Just as a matter of interest, after posting my comment about someone
>pronouncing gigabyte as "jigabyte", I'm wondering how most people
>pronounce gigabyte.

>If people could mail me, I'll post the results.  Personally, I prefer
>"Jijibite".

   I hate it when Americans automatically pronouce a "g" as "j". Like "GIF".
Compu$erve supposedly pronounced it "jif" when they made it. But, the creator
of GIFConvertor pronounces his software just as it looks, with a real "G", not
a "J". To me, "jigabyte" sounds really stupid. Saying "gig" in the company
of non-computer people makes you sound more macho. "Jig" sounds like you
don't know what you're talking about. Just MHO.




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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: RT-11 help needed
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:51:47 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Jul27.151805.2692@cs.cornell.edu>, chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman) writes:
> I also have
> a collection of paper tapes labelled "RT-11 Sources" -- what on earth are
> these? 

I dunno, but if you post 'em we can help you figure them out. :-) :-)

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu
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From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re:  Re: Unix Roots of DOS?
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:50:35 GMT
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna Virginia

In article <1992Jul20.140207.57357@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!) writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.165306.918@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>> configurations.  Clearly, it has to be a DOS problem because in theory, the
>> ROM in the XT controller is passed the same info either way.  When switching
>> to an AT-type disk system, no problems were encountered.)
>
>The problem is the same one that RT-11, CP/M, and even OS/8 see. MS-DOS was
>limited to a 16-bit block number (32M is 64K 512-byte blocks). RT-11 has
>the same limit. CP/M is limited to 8M because it counts 128-byte blocks.
>OS/8 is limited to about 2.5M because it only has 12 bits.

	Of course, you could increase the size of the filesystem by making
each logical block larger.  This, I think, is what was done in the Zenith
version of MS-DOS 3.3+, which could handle at least an 80MB drive as a
singel partition, but caused SYTOS to complain that it couldn't back up
network drives.  Presumably, the structure of the FAT was sufficiently
different so that SYTOS could recognize that it was confused.  I didn't
bother looking into the details, becuase MS-DOS hasn't been the focus of my
interests, ever.  (SSB's DOS-68 and DOS-69, Microware's OS-9, and various
unix variants, yes. :-)
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long...
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:41:32 GMT
Keywords: workstation, hacking, risks

In article <1992Jul23.152757.1506@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> gudjm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (D John McKenna) writes:
>hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker) writes:
>> Anyone else logged onto a machine to issue a `show time' command when
>> one is wearing a perfectly good watch?
>Just out of curiosity... out of all of you hackers who wear a digital
>watch, how many have it in 24 hour mode?

Yes. 24 hours.  I got really annoyed when I found out the clock I bought
didn't have a 24 hour mode.  The thing that confuses other people about
my watch (its a combined analog/digital) is that the analog part shows
GMT and the digital shows BST (GMT +0100).  This isn't through any
conscious decision though, just forgetting to change it when we swapped
over :-)

Dylan.
-- 
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As
pretty as an Airport' appear -- Douglas Adams
From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Terminal intrinsics
Date: 29 Jul 1992 15:01:26 GMT
Organization: SunConnect
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com

In article <jimf.712417131@centerline.com>, jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) writes:
> spitzak@gree.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Spitzak) writes:
> [....]  DEC is probably responsible
> >for almost everything good in computers nowadays (maybe not directly, but
> >every real innovation has been made on it).  Sun owes it's life to the VAX
> >(on which Berkely Unix was developed).  It is actually pretty distressing
> >that they are in such trouble now.
> 
> I don't agree with this at all.  The only thing DEC is responsible for
> is bringing the price point of machines down to a level that mere
> mortals could afford (and they've blown that in recent years).

I disagree (why are two people from Sun defending DEC? :-) )

I'd blame IBM for that, not DEC. The PC (cheap & nasty compared to a PDP)
is probably more responsible for bringing affordable computers to the masses
than DEC.
> 
> [A nit, BSD UNIX was originally developed on the PDP, not the VAX,
> although it's certainly arguable that most of the real advances in BSD
> UNIX were done on the VAX (eg the VM system, TCP/IP, and the FFS).]

Are you sure? I know that _Unix_ was developed on the PDP (by AT&T), but
I thought that _BSD Unix_ was developed on the VAX by Berkeley, specifically
to take advantage of the VM facilities in the architecture.  Besides, both
machines came from DEC so Unix in general owes its existence to DEC.

> Everywhere I look where DEC was not one of the founders of a standard
> I find that DEC's compliance is minimal if it exists at all.  For
> example, DEC Ultrix isn't very POSIX compliant

VAX Ultrix was based on BSD 4.2, which I think was around long before
POSIX. My experience with DEC is that they are more compliant with
standards than most. Ever tried to hook an HP system up to anything?

> Hell, even in places where DEC was a founder they've
> goofed it -- look at the abysmal implementations of X servers that DEC
> ships out.

Or look at Ethernet, one of the most successful LAN protocols anywhere.
There are good & bad, but I've found far more of the former.

> 
> I think it's good that DEC's hurting now because it's showing them
> that they can't sit back on their laurels and expect to live forever
> on a single successful product.  I'd like to see them competiive
> again and the only way that's going to happen is if they realize that
> they have to keep moving or fall behind.  Maybe Alpha's the ticket,
> but it should have been here five years ago.

Well, I'll agree there, I'd hate to see them go under. I used their kit
(hardware & software) for a long time, & still have a PDP running. I'd
certainly like to see them around for a long time, if only to give
the rest of us some good competition. That should do us all good.
> 
> jim frost

Steve

Need I add a disclaimer? Of course my employer won't agree :-)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
Subject: Re: What does UNIX mean?
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:34:48 GMT

edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
>As a serious question (I know - this is not the place ;-),
>how do you OS bashers feel about the Mach kernel developed
>at Carnegie Mellon (sp)?  I use Dos, OS/2, Mac, & Unix in
>various forms daily, but am not really a hacker (Although I
>_did_ have a TRS-80 and Apple ][ ;-)

It's interesting although it's become more politically than
technically motivated since OSF started using it.  Fortunately there
are a number of interesting OS projects that are still pure research.

>And TOPS-20, what is that?

A Good Thing, even if I hate its filesystem.  Imagine what the world
might have been like if TOPS-20 ran on other machines and used the
UNIX filesystem semantics.... :-)

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: zcookbruc@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Unix Roots of DOS?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:52:42 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.111634.23030@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <1992Jul21.092942.3945@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>
>>a very thorough discussion about how the different (MS|DR)-DOS - Version
>>deal with all the memory there may or may not be on a system, what drivers
>>they use etc.
>>
>>That reminds me of a few definitions I some time ago, in an article:
>>
>>Expanded Memory: Memory over 1 MB which is not Extended Memory
> 
> This is wrong.  Expanded memory is LIM 4.0 memory, or at least a subset of
> it.  Actual implementation merely requires calling a driver to get passed
> a small window into the larger space.  The calling program has no rights
> as to the expectations of implementation.  Known implementations include
> using 4 16K frames in the UMA to access an indefinitely large space that
> might be independently available as extended memory.  Or the memory might
> not be otherwise available, and is actually off the memory bus generally.
> This is often dones as "above-board" memory and is the usual way for 8088
> or 8086 class machines.  The memory is never within the memory space of
> the 1 meg of the machine except for the frames.  There is also a version that
> uses disk space and at least 64K of real memory.  In theory, UMA could be
> combined with disk space to make a larger LIM memory.  Caching could even
> be done if someone cared enough.
> 
>>Extended Memory: Memory over 1 MB which is not Expanded Memory
> 
> Again wrong.  Extended memory is all memory over 1 MB.  There is a
> standard called XMS which allows for the HMA in the first 64K-16 and then
> the rest can be allocated in a more orderly way, but there are programs that
> don't adhere to these standards as well, since it's fairly new.  DR DOS 5
> didn't use it, but XMS 2.0 is part of both DR DOS 6 and MS DOS 5.
> 
>>Extended Expanded Memory: Memory over 1 MB which is neither Expanded Memory
>>or Extended Memory
>>
> 
> A copout that need not exist in light of the proper definition of the first
> two.
> 
> cjl

WOW the clarification is more confusing than the original statment.
and almost as confusing as the "standard" documentation.

...BRU
From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Pronouncing Unix names
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:38:47 GMT

From article <Bs7pJw.F91@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
by dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown):
>
> But the real question is, what the **** does the 'rc' _stand_ for?!

The rc suffix in such goodies as .cshrc, .mailrc and .newsrc stands for
"read commands" (according to the way I heard it, folklore being folklore),
and this is because, in the case of most of the rc files, when you start
the program, its command interpreter reads first from the rc file before
turning to the source it was told to read from.

Of course, for many newer software products, the command interpreter that
reads the rc file has nothing to do with the command interpreter that
reads from the intended user of the software.

				Doug Jones
				jones@cs.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.amiga.games
From: glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha)
Subject: Help in Enchanter
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:49:40 GMT


I bought Lost Treasures about two months ago, and when I was back
in Illinois about two weeks after that, I brought home and left
at home all the cheat maps and the hint book so that I wouldn't
be tempted. Unfortunately, here I am in Iowa with no hints, and
I'm stuck in Enchanter. Here's my problem:  I've gotten to where
I can get the dispel scroll and about 150 points, but I can't
really make any positive advancement after that. I think my 
problem results from three things:
   1)  I've summoned the adventurer, but I can't find much use
       for him. I've also broken the mirrors, but I can't find
       much use for that. 
   2)  Is there any way to get out of the cell in the temple
       without the protection from evil scroll? So far, I
       haven't been able to find anything useful in the temple,
       north cell, south cell, or altar.
   3)  I'd guess that I'll want to open both the chest and the
       heavily guarded door...is there a way to do this?
Hopefully, someone can help me with at least one of these things,
for which I'll be eternally grateful.
Thanks in advance,
*****GlittoFern***** glitto@iastate.edu
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From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Computer Relics (Was: 9 track data storage?)
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:34:56 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

In article <7563@public.BTR.COM> thad@public.BTR.COM
(Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:

>Ah, 8" floppies.  Almost forgot about those; they're still used on DEC's
>VAX-11/780 and 785 machines

     Our Unisys System 80 model 8, which is still our production
machine (although we're switching to Unix) boots its microcode from
8-inch floppies.  Even worse, software patches, and all optional
products, are still shipped on the things.

>Talk about frozen-molasses slow: about 10 minutes to read 200+ Kbytes or so.

     I wrote a program for my IMSAI that would copy a disk in
36 seconds.  (Oh all right, only for single sided disks with
verification turned off...)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
"I'm cursed with hair from HELL!"  -- Night Court