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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Graphics Accelerators and OS 2.0
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:45:04 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <Bsz2Gx.AHC@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani) writes:
> I am interested in finding out whether an ET4000 based card or
> an S3 card would work best for a 486 system running OS 2.0. I do
> know that an S3 is great for graphics but slow in text mode and
> the ET4000 doesn't have the same performance improvement as the
> S3 in graphics mode but is faster in text mode. Would a local 
> bus make a difference? Any comments will be appreciated.
> TIA.

The ET4000 has Svga drivers for OS/2. The S3 folks haven't bothered to write
any. Trident has the best set of SVGA drivers. ALL of the above work fine with
normal VGA.
 
Steve
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From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Is a 486-33 with 0 ws cache faster than a 486-50 with 1 w
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:23:57 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <1992Aug16.060405.15165@ariel.ec.usf.edu> fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. writes:

  > With just the 8k internal cache, the speed was 106 !!! ,
  > almost the same as having both caches enabled.
  > 
  > Does this mean that my 256k external cache has been a waste of
  > hard earned money????

When running small benchmarks or small loops which totally fit into the
internal 8K cache, you will *never* see any effect from external
caches. The bigger your programs are, the more processes are running
concurrently, the bigger is the effect of an external cache.
  
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From: starkey@netcom.com (Sean Starkey)
Subject: Cascading 8259 PICs
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 03:56:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: 8259, PIC

I am working with a four port serial card with a STD bus computer.  This 
serial card has it's own 8259 PIC.  The four UARTS on the serial board are 
connected to this PIC.

Now, it is possible to cascade this PIC to the PIC on the CPU board.  (I have
done this sucessfully.)  The master PIC sets the slave's PIC IRQ (IRQ 2) to
"cascaded" with the ICW3.  The slave PIC sets the correct interrupt vector
with ICW2.  etc.  This all seems to work OK.

This is the configuration for the PICs:
Master PIC:
IRQ 1  Keyboard
IRQ 2  -- Slave PIC --  (STD Bus INTRQ)
IRQ 3  COM 2 (on CPU card)
IRQ 4  COM 1 (on CPU card)
IRQ 5  ...
IRQ 6  Disk Drive
IRQ 7  Clock

Slave PIC:
IRQ 0  None
IRQ 1  None
IRQ 2  None
IRQ 3  COM 4  (serial card)
IRQ 4  COM 3  (serial card)
IRQ 5  COM 6  (serial card)
IRQ 6  COM 5  (serial card)
IRQ 7  None

My problem is that the serial card works for a short time, then the INTs
get hung on the slave PIC.  The master PIC still works fine (COM 1 and 2 still
function OK), but the slave PIC doesn't work.  I can tell that they are hung
that the Interrupt Identify Register on the COM ports is stuck at 0x04
(character in receive buffer).  I believe that the interrupt handlers for 
the COM ports do not EOI the PIC correctly -- I am not sure.

If it helps, I'm using a Ziatech ZT8901 for the CPU card and a ZT88CT41 for the
serial card.

If any one has had any experience with this kind of work, any pointers would
be appreciated.  Thanks!


	Sean Starkey			starkey@netcom.com
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From: andreas@andreas.hact.de (Andreas Kesenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Soundcard
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:15:09 GMT
Organization: Halstenbach ACT GmbH

Hi out there,

two weeks ago I posted an article in this newsgroup, where I asked
for somebody to tell me his/her expieriences about a soundcard.

Yet I didn't get any reply - so, is it such uninteresting stuff
or "can anyone hear me" or why am I feeling so alone...

Still I' looking to get *any* exieriences of interest with soundcards,
programming tools, MIDI-software etc. by e-mail.

So world, join your local musician

	Andreas

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From: mike@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: TRIDENT  TVGA 8900 _B_ board queries
Date: 19 Aug 92 10:42:05 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

I recently got a Trident VGA board from a friend, but I
don't have a manual (and he's away on holiday ....) so
can anyone tell me what the jumper and switch settings
are?

The board has a TVGA8900B chip (not the current (I think)
8900C) with 256K installed (max 1M). There are jumpers
J1 (interrupt control I think), J2, J3(actually two
jumpers 1/2/3 and 4/5/6), plus 6 DIP switches which are
accessibe through the end plate (by the connector).

FWIW, I'm trying to run it with a colout VGA monitor (ie.,
up to 600 by 480). I generally starts up OK, but the
screen flickers during disc access, and sooner or later
breaks up completely (often just after it is cleared).

ta for any help
mike

mike@minster.york.ac.uk

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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: closet SCSI
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:36:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <2988@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page) writes:
>In my closet I came across a vintage SCSI adapter called a RODIME R0650 INTERFACE, on the back it had written COPYRIGHT AMBIT PACE 1985.
>
>Has anyone any experience with this card?
>
>If so HOW DO YOU FORMAT A DRIVE with it ?

I think I have one of these.  Am I right in thinking that it is a small
8 bit card about a third of the height of a normal 8 bit card ?

If so I formated my drive by using the DOS FDISK and FORMAT programs.

Davei (Davei@lancaster.ac.uk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Subject: Re: Help - Cyrix processors, anyone know for sure?
Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:59:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.205054.25258@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I think you just answered your own question. A 386 BIOS will not work
>well (if at all) with a 486, because the cache controller is unknown to
>it. I wouldn't even try it, based on having tried a 386 BIOS on a 486
>motherboard without success.
>
>  If it did work I would expect it to be quite slow without enabling the
>cache.
>
>  That's not a "for sure" answer, but it's based on some real experience
>and some solid reasons why I wouldn't expect it to work.

I would think that is the reason that the chip will come up in slow-mode
that is more or less 386 compatible. You have have explicitly enable 
the cache. This give a better chance that a 386 BIOS will work. But 
then, I expect AMI and other BIOS people will quickly come out with 
versions of their 386 BIOS that can handle the Cyrix chips. I am expecting
to have to replace my BIOS for complete functionality.



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From: fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Are Seagate drives any good ?
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:48:17 GMT
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, College of Engineering



Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
drives are not worth the metal they're built with.

To this date I would have sworn on a Seagate so I'd like to know if I
have just been lucky. 

Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
this dealers claim ?
From: funni@vixvax.mgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ??? S3 cards and 486-50 MIPS???\
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:15:30 CDT
Organization: Management Graphics, Inc.

i am about to buy a 486-50dx with local bus and had a few questions



should i worry about mips or do all 486-50dx computers rate about the same


and when doing "direct screen writes" does the S3 ram have wait states 
or is it really running at 50mhz,  if so what speed ram does it have?


do all local busses have the same pin out? or what  makes one s3 card
uncompatable with another one?

are there  any book/information on programming the S3 cards?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: Gateway's E-mail address info they sent me
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 21:10:41 GMT

Gateway can be reached on Internet at GATEWAY@AOL.COM
This is much easier than all that jibberish.
From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Screws to hold case on - Where from?
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:48:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA

In article <1992Aug11.172929.29511@cs.cmu.edu> redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English) writes:
>Hello,
>
>  I'm looking for a source for those little screws that
>hold the cases of PCs on.
>
>  We have a number of PCs where I work, and with all
>the popping in and out of cards we usually don't
>bother putting the screws back in, and surprise
>surprise, we've lost some. (Probably in the cleaners
>vacuum-cleaner).
>
>  They seem to be fairly standard - amoung about 12
>PCs (from about 8 manufacturers!) there are only two
>sizes.  So can anybody help?
>
>                 Thanks in advance,
>
>                       Red/.

Well, go to the hardware store and buy a box each of 6/32, 8/32, M3 and M4
size screws in an appropriate length. 

Oh, if you have a Multitech or ACER, get a box of M3.5's as well.

-steve
From: chew@accel.aa.washington.edu (Gilbert Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard Drives vs. Controllers
Date: 14 Aug 92 01:33:49 GMT
Reply-To: chew@accel.aa.washington.edu (Gilbert Chew)
Organization: U of Wash Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Hello world.  I am a newcomer to USENET, so please excuse my
ignorance.  8-(

I have a question about hard drive controllers, which I know 
nothing about.  Are they "generic" (meaning, will any hard
drive controller work with any type of hard drive)?
Or are they specific to a type of drive (e.g., RLL, MFM, IDE,
AEIOU, etc.)?

If controllers are limited to specific types of drives, how do
I go about figuring out what type of drive is apropriate to a
given controller?

Note: Obviously (well, maybe not 8-) ), I have a drive
controller capable of handling two drives, and I was
thinking of adding another drive.

Please email responses to:
  chew@accel.aa.washington.edu

Thanks!

--Gilbert Chew
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: MFM & IDE:  Is it possible to mix?
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Keywords: MFM, IDE
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:49:09 GMT

I have an old ST-251 as my C: drive, and am going to upgrade to a larger
drive.  So, I'm interested in knowing if I can mix an IDE and this old
MFM.  If I can mix them, what configuration would I put them in?  Does the
CMOS have to have any special smarts?

Thanks in advance.

Les.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: u906583@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Paul Roberts)
Subject: help choosing NEC V20/V30 processor
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:15:26 GMT

I have an IBM (the real thing) XT, with an 8088 processor, and I want to
replace it with something a bit faster, I have been looking around at NEC v20/30
processors and I was wondering if there were any other chips by NEC or other
manufacterers that are compatible.

Paul.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: saud@seas.gwu.edu (Wanes Saud)
Subject: driver type
Originator: saud@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:05:01 GMT

Hi

Could some one, Please, tell me what HD driver type for segat ST-238?


Opening the disk drive  does it cause  any damage?


Thanks

Wanes
From: j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com (John Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Micronics Gemini motherboard
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:37:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



I am considering the purchase of a Micronics Gemini '486-33DX motherboard.
Does anyone have any experience with this board?  It uses a Phoenix bios
and I was wondering if it has a user defined drive type.  I would appreciate
any comments on this board.

Thanks.

John

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler)
Subject: Real LIM 4.0 board
Reply-To: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 15:22:36 GMT



I have a '286 machine, and I'd like to get a board for it that supports
the full LIM EMS 4.0 standard.  (My basic desire is to get myself some
UMBs -- A (undocumented *anywhere*) device driver came with the system,
that gives EMS memory at C800, but can only be used for 64K of UMB, and
I need more than that.  Whatever piece of hardware lets the driver do
that, it's not recognized by The Lat Byte..)

I've heard a couple of people complain that an EMS card they bought
didn't give full 4.0 support, and this is what I want to avoid buying..

Reply in E-Mail, I'll summarise the responses I get if interest is
expressed.
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From: grue@csa.bu.edu (Philip Libin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 486DX2 system
Keywords: Gateway, DX2-66
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:25:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Aug22.225753.11654@newshost.lanl.gov> sct@beta.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink) writes:
>Gateway has just announced a new system that looks very good to me
>despite all the negative things we read about Gateway here.  The system is
>a 486 DX2 66Mhz systems with 8 MB of ram, 64K cache, a 340 MB disk, a




IMHO, 64K is too small a cache size for a machine thats going to be
addressing memory at 33Mhz.  Unless very fast RAM is used (like 60ns),
the small cache size will be a bottleneck.  This is my main reason for
not buying a Gateway.
From: pwhite@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Patrick White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Anyone Heard Of This Comm Card??
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:32:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center

I am trying to use this rs232 comm card but I have no 
information for it, any help is much appreciated.

It is an 8 bit, half size PC card. Looks like it has at
least 2 serial ports and a real time clock of sorts. The
silkscreen says it is a `Diamond 0100'. I know this isn't 
much to go on, but if anyone has heard of a manufacturer or
a brand name like this, it would be a start.

Thanks.

Pat White

Motorola - Core
1101 E. University Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

pwhite@udc.urbana.mcd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: modem question: V.32/V.32bis
Date: 16 Aug 92 05:19:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19745
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Aug16.020619.710@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pjd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dotzauer) writes:
>I'm in the market for an external high speed data&fax modem,
>and I'm currently looking at the Twincom 14.4 DF (seen for $299
>on mail order).

This modem uses the rockwell chipset doesnt it?  If so, you probably want to
stay away from it..  There have been a great number of problems with V.32bis
modems based on rockwell's design....

>14,400 bps Industry Standard, V.32bis...
>
>It does not say, V.32 at 9600 bps.

The "bis" portion is a french suffix which very roughly translated means
"extension of."..  If it is V.32bis, it inherntly is compatable with V.32.

>Also, what's a 16550 UART Interface?

I think its basically a "buy our product cause we use big words" ad.  The
16550 is a UART, which comes in a 40pin DIP package.  It stands for 
Universal Asynchronous Reciever Transmitter.  Basically, it is the part of
your serial port that converts parallel to serial and vise versa.  The
Unique thing about the 16550 is that it has an internal buffer to help
avoid loss of characters at high speed...


Scott
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From: taifun@tcshb1.north.de (Markus Nolte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: help on tandberg floppystreamer wanted
Date: 16 Aug 92 16:31:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: tcshb1.405
Organization: Taifun Comm. Sys., Bremen, FRG

hi !

I`ve got a tandberg floppystreamer and I can`t get it to work ...
so I`m looking for someone who has got any information about the streamer
or can help me otherwise.

the streamer is : TANDBERG DATA A/S, MODEL  TDC 3309


does anybody know how to set it up ?

thanks in advance ...

markus


p.s. the streamer is also sold as a NIXDORF  6257 01

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From:  ank@robosoft.riga.lv (Alexander Kirpa)
Subject: Re: Specs on Conner CP3204 200MB IDE drive
Reply-To: ank@robosoft.riga.lv
Organization: Robosoft Ltd., Riga, Latvia
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:05:43 GMT

>>In article <BsxMMK.o3@rice.edu>
>>frank@owlnet.rice.edu (Frank T. Kang) writes:
>>
>>>
>>>Can someone post/email the CMOS setup parameters(i.e. heads, cylinders, etc)
>>>for the Conner CP3204 drive?  Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Frank Kang
>>>frank@owlnet.rice.edu
>>
>>Just of the top of my head, the Conner CP3204 drive has 683 cyls, 16 heads,
>>38 sectors/track, formatted capacity of 213MB, access speed of 16ms,
>>and a 64k look-ahead cache.             ^^^
Real 1366 track, 8 head, 38 sec. For DOS 683/16/38 (1024 track limit)

Best regards
 Alexander Kirpa
 director of Robosoft Ltd.
From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Parallel Cable Info Needed
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:02:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1992Aug19.141216.17461@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
>Hello Net,
>
>I need to know how much of an extension cable can I get away with
>on a Centronics parallel printer. I'm looking towards, say, 15 feet, 
>maybe 18. Would that work if it's shielded?
>
>The printer is an Epson FX85 (old), and the PC is an AT&T 6300 (even
>older :-)). 

5 metres is the maximum length stated in some references.

It really depends on how much money was spent on the line terminations
at the printer and computer ports. I have driven a printer via a 100foot long
cable before but the reflections were a bit nasty.

Davei
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: MR. BIOS, Has anybody heard about this BIOS??
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:37:22 GMT

In article <13998@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera) writes:
>Has anybody heard about 'MR. BIOS'  ?  How is it??  Is it fully compatible
>with something like AMI or Award bios??

Oh yes indeedy!  Mr. BIOS (aka Mr. Mike) made the rounds a few
years ago to all of the big names who wrote their own BIOS...
I know of four companies, but can only remember Zenith and
Tandon off the top of my head.  While at Zenith, he was a
little strange (seemed to be always eating sugar, like a whole
bag of candy corn), but he was one of the dedicated and
tireless BIOS engineers.  Zenith, at the time, was the only
company wise enough to not only build in a ROM setup but also
a full ROM debugger (sans assembler) in to the
Mark-Foster's-Monitor ROM.  After Zenith, he came to Tandon
and worked tirelessly there until he didn't like the area any
more... then I think he hit a few companies down in Orange
COunty (still can't remember the names)... anyway, finally he
found the ideal home for himself in the bay area and the ideal
company for himself... Microid Research.  I hear he is raking
in the dough and since he basically has himself as his staff,
he is keeping most of it.  

So much for the history of Mr. BIOS... as far as a BIOS, well,
I'd say that he has literally tens of years of experience
behind the BIOS.  Being quick at picking up things, he is
amazing at adapting his BIOS to new machines with little or no
problems (any of which are probably caught long before a
customer sale).

So... I'd say that his BIOS is pretty darned good.  In fact,
I'd say that it is just as good as Zenith's and Tandon's (just
to name a couple). :)



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: Local Bus ans Disk/VGA Speed
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:35:05 GMT

In article <GERRY.92Aug18093645@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>Does an ISA system with local bus slots (one for VGA and one for disk)
>have as great an impact on system performance as claimed by the
>manufacturers?  

Not at all... that is until you fill those slots with local bus
cards :)  

Since all of the "standards" have not been adopted yet, your
safest bet is to just buy the system preconfigured with local
bus controllers.  Just be sure to see the coretest and
winbench numbers BEFORE you buy... not all local bus videos
and IDEs are made the same!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware