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From: 890751r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dave Ritacco)
Subject: Zeos Intl
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:09:47 GMT

    Just a quick comment on Zeos. My 486/50 system works and is 
reliable ( so far ) but I must add that it feels a lot like a clone. The 
SVGA monitor is low-quality and the keyboard 'feels' cheap, if u know
what I mean. Besides that, though, it works and doesn't seem to be as
problem-ridden as Dell's or Gateway's machines.
-- 
************************************************************************
*        Dave Ritacco                Product of Acadia University      *
*           "Why don't you pull the trigger and find out?"             *
*        ritacco@otter.phys.uvic.ca                W.H.Bonney          *
From: pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Switches for MSCDEX
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:42:01 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I've killed my config.sys & lost the docs for my CD-ROM.  Can someone
tell me what switch I give DRD600.SYS to tell it that my CDROM has six
disks in it?

Email prefered since no-one else cares.  :-)
-- 
Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator        pfaffman@pilot.njin.net
Dwight-Englewood School, 315 E. Palisade Ave.                      
Englewood, NJ  07631-0489                 201-569-9500
From: eomc40@festival.ed.ac.uk (M Allan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Colour PAL programming
Summary: Some details
Keywords: Colour PAL programming
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:57:57 GMT
Distribution: comp

Send correspondance to : Frank Klemm at pfk@de.uni-jena.rz.hpux

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the 16 color modes the colors are not direct translated to the DAC.
The ATC will translate the colors in the following theme (reprogr.):

 Color in 16 color modes        # of color in the DAC (standard)  
        0                       0
        ...                     ...
        5                       5
        6                       20
        7                       7
        8                       56
        ...                     ...
        15                      63

If more infos necessary, recall me.

Frank

PS:
If 100 more request about color pal programming follows, I make a general list
for posting every week with examples!!!!!!!
From: bho@ocf.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DEVICEHIGH & LOADHIGH on 286?
Date: 28 Jul 1992 17:08:59 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

In article <92209.210239U41602@uicvm.uic.edu> U41602@uicvm.uic.edu (Rich Chong) writes:
>In the PC-DOS5.00 User's Guide and Reference, under the commands
>reference section for DEVICEHIGH (chap14, p452) under the Notes
>under Installing Instaling HIMEM.SYS and a UMB provider, it states:
>"Before you can load a device driver into the upper memory area, you
>must use the device command once to install the HIMEM.SYS device
>driver and then again to install an UMB provider. ... On some
>computers, you might even be able touse HIMEM.SYS itself as a UMB
>provider."
>
>This lead me to think it meant to load HIMEM.SYS twice, but of course,
>it didn't work. I heard that I need something like QRAM or Move'em
>to provide such (UMB) services. Is there anything public domain to
>use that will work? Thanks in advance.
>rc

As a matter of fact, there are several shareware memory managers that
provide UMBS for many makes of 286, 386, and 486 motherboards!

To name a few, The Last Byte 2.02 and umb_drvr.sys come to mind.  My
overwhelming endorsement goes to umb_drvr.sys (which is currently
version 5.22, but a 5.23 should be out "late July").

The handy program, written by Chris Blum, provides UMBs through
your chipset (so certain motherboards will not work), but his list
of supported chipsets is extensive and thoroughly documented.  Not
only that, but umb_drvr.sys takes no conventional memory, allows you
to loadhi even HIMEM.SYS, and it doesn't slow down your machine like
QEMM.SYS, 386-To-The-Max, or QRAM!  Furthermore, since Mr. Blum's memory
manager is real mode based, there are no compatibility problems for 386 and
486 machines, making it attrative for people who run debuggers, or DOS
extenders, or so forth.

Version 5.20 can be found on wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/msdos/sysutl,
where The Last Byte can be found as we, as umbdr520.zip and tlb202.zip.

If youreally use umb_drvr.sys, there is a very reasonable $25 shareware fee
whichundercuts any commercial programs and provides more compatibility and
functionality.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards
From: chandoni@husc8.UUCP (John-Marc Chandonia, , , )
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:09:13 EDT
Originator: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu

by: palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer):
> I was reading one of John Dvorak's columns in a PC magazine where he
> was discussing the joys and pitfalls of running OS/2.  In an
> annoyingly offhand remark, he says that OS/2 doesn't like Trident
> ET4000 SVGA cards.  I am about to purchase a system that has a Trident
> ET4K card in it.  While I am buying the machine to run Windows, I
> would like to keep my OS/2 options open.  What is this mysterious
> incompatibility problem?  Is it just a scarcity of OS/2 drivers, or is
> there something deeper?

2 problems for the general public, but not a problem for anybody
with internet access or a modem to call the Atlanta BBS:

1)  Newer cards go out of synch when the out-of-the-box OS/2
	is installed and you open up a full screen dos or
	os/2 command line session.  I don't know which new cards
	these are; a noname ET4000 card I bought in June works
	fine.  A fix is available on hobbes.nmsu.edu, and
	software.watson.ibm.com.

2)  Lack of drivers (actually a problem for all SVGA cards, at first).
	No ET4000 drivers come with OS/2 as you buy it; you have
	to download beta's from hobbes.  The current 1024x768x16 driver
	works great, but doesn't support seamless windows or some graphics
	modes in a window yet.  The current 256 color drivers are
	incredibly slow (although no longer discolored)... try
	using 16 colors for the WPS and 256 for Windows sessions.

Hopefully, both of these problems will be fixed in the (insert season)
CSD.  But if you know what you're doing, you can get it working
now.  Ask on comp.os.os2.misc if you have trouble... there are 3 or
4 other patches that everyone should have (swapfile, blkico, etc.),
all of which are on watson or hobbes, and presumably at Atlanta.

JMC
-- 
chandoni@husc9.harvard.edu    | I will not yell fire in a crowded classroom
John-Marc Chandonia           | I will not yell fire in a crowded classroom
Graduate Biophysics Program   | I will not yell fire in a crowded classroom 
Harvard University            | I will not yell fire ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: opus@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (robin.g.kim)
Subject: Re: QEMM & PCTools 7.1
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:54:08 GMT

In article <711701155.0@nwark.FidoNet> Randall.Weston@f1020.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org (Randall Weston) writes:
>I'm running an AMD 386-40 with 64k sram cache. If I use QEMM (or EMM386) to
> enable UMB's, CP Backup fails. It does one of three thimgs. It crashes and
> does a cold boot, compare shows different file contents, or compare says it
> can't find the backup directory. If I use only HIMEM.SYS it works just fine,
> but I don't have as much memory free as I can with QEMM. Any ideas?

CP Backup (from PC Tools 7.1) works fine with QEMM (6.01?) on my 486/33
Gateway 2000.  Oops, actually I use the Windows-based backup program.  Are
you sure you have no disk cache activated other than PC-Cache?

Rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hutchinson@watson.bms.com (ROBERT HUTCHINSON)
Subject: WordPerfect Password Problem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:07:00 GMT

    The other day I tried to retrieve a document I have from about 2-3 years 
ago.  Being security minded I had password protected it.  Of course by now you 
know where this is leading, I can't remember the password!  This would not be 
so bad if it was one document, but I checked all of my documents from that 
time frame (about 50 of them) and they all were also locked.  I have an old 
program called TRYALL4.EXE which can guess passwords up to 4 characters long.  
Of course, mine were longer.  I have tried every password I can remember with 
no luck at all.  Is there any program which can help me?  If it could just 
give me the first few letters of the password I could most likely identify it.
Has anyone else had this problem? If so what did you do?  Can anyone help? 
Thanks.

Bob Hutchinson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman)
Subject: Re: Scheduling Software Info
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:26:51 GMT

I would be interested in any replies to this query as well.

thanks
dazz
From: matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: One Pass Disk Copier Needed
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:28:51 GMT
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Hi,
	I'm looking at backing up a few 3.5" high-density disks on a 
single drive PC. Anyone know of a good One-Pass Disk Copier available
viw FTP??

Please E-Mail

Matt Crowd - Systems Support
matt@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ychung@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
Subject: Re: 386-40 VS i486SX-25
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:16:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.113033.12000@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> kevinlu@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lu) writes:
>: >
>: >  I beleive he meant that it is acceptable to take the cut in CPU power
>: >(whatever it might be *cough*),  and purchase some extra RAM with the money
>: >you would have had to spend on the 486SX/25.  I did it myself and I am
>: >happy with my AMD 386/40.  Memory is memory... aye?!
>: >
>: >-Rob
>: >reward@eos.ncsu.edu [.sig on vacation also]
>: 
>: Cut in CPU power?  From My understanding... a 486 is a 386 with an onboard
>: 387 and cache.  A 486sx is a 486 that has the 387 disabled, leaving you
>: with what is basically a 386 with a cache.
>: Now, this means he's comparing a 386 40Mhz with a 386 25Mhz with a cache.
>: I leave the decision as to which is better up to y'all...
>
>
>Thats not right is it?
>
>The 486 has different timings (via clock cycles) and there for runs faster
>(not by much) than a 386. Also there are some newer functions on the 486
>(albeit partially useless ones). However i would stay away from an SX,
>because if you want the co-pro. part, Don't you have to buy a chip which
>is in fact a '486 which disable your SX chip?
>
>
>   

As far as I know, ALL x87SX chips have their corresponding x87SX chip (including
the 486SX).  And, yes and no on 486 being 386 with 387 and all.  I think that
the architecture of 486 and 386 are a bit different.  For instance, I think
the 486's use 64-bit instruction set(?), this means faster 32-bit integer
calculations.  This implies that 486SX/25 will run faster than 386/33 in most
cases.  I guess
my last point would depend on how much faster is 64-bit calculation compared
to 32-bit.  I used PMFract, Fractint for OS/2, under OS/2 2.0.  The 32-bit
version of PMFract worked about 1.5 times faster than the 16-bit version
regardless of what I was doing in the background or forground sessions.



-------------
How long do those Energizers last anyway?
                                          I don't know, I have rechargables.
============================================================================
Young  --:#)  ychung@descartes.waterloo.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.net
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Networkable Mail System
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd. 
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:36:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.142749.11837@newshost.lanl.gov> gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com (Gavin Adams) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for some net.wisdom on a electronic mail package for the PC. 
>I haven't dealt with any of the major players and would like some
>feedback.
>
>Requirements (Server):
>
>o Run on a 486-based machine, DOS, WIndows, whatever--not really important
>o Must support Ethernet connect
>o Must support SMTP gateway (both incoming and outgoing)
>
>(Client):
>
>o Run under Windows 3.x
>o Support Ethernet connection
>o Support mailing (via server) to outside e-mail systems
>
>I'd really like a client/server approach to minimize the amount of user
>support required.  Any and all answers will be appreciated.
>
>I'll summarize.
>
>
>--- Gavin
>Gone Fission.          Visualize Whirled Peas!

Microsoft Mail or Davinici...

There is a SMTP gateway for Davinnci.. not sure about Microsoft.


-- 
Ken Germann		support@zeos.com 	Zeos International, Ltd.
	Press any key to continue.	Where is the 'any' key?
			
			Opinions expressed are my own.
From: vg@sup.stollmann.de (Volkmar Grote)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: CMOS settings keep disappearing
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:24:12 GMT
Organization: Stollmann GmbH, D-2000 Hamburg 50, Germany

S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU writes:

>Is this hardware malfunction or some program manages to wipe out CMOS ?

Have you checked or exechanged the battery lately? I think they are
supposed to have a lifetime of about three years or so.

Good luck
	Volkmar
From: ehobbs@nmt.edu (Eric Hobbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 386-40 VS i486SX-25
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:36:17 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech

In article <1992Jul27.023833.4565@techbook.com> marcusk@techbook.com (Marcus Kusch) writes:
>
>Cut in CPU power?  From My understanding... a 486 is a 386 with an onboard
>387 and cache.  A 486sx is a 486 that has the 387 disabled, leaving you
>with what is basically a 386 with a cache.
>Now, this means he's comparing a 386 40Mhz with a 386 25Mhz with a cache.
>I leave the decision as to which is better up to y'all...
>-- 
>cknlps@techbook.com ........................................... Marcus Kusch
>Not affiliated |          **********************************    Beaverton,Or
>with TECHbooks |          *  Funny Place For An Empty Box  *    503-646-9591
>----------------          **********************************

Doesn't the 486 have a rewritten instruction set that is much more
efficient that the 386 set?  I'm not sure about this but isn't there
something having to do with internal clock cycles that was changed to
make the 486 run faster.  At any rate, a 486 isn't just a 386 with a 
co-proccesor and a cache.
Heck, I don't even have a PC! I wanna get one though.

Eric A. HOBBS!!
ehobbs@jupiter.nmt.edu
From: jsingh@rishikesh.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jitendra Singh 5-2)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Changing the bus speed?
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:09:55 GMT
Organization: Computervision Corp.

In article <24JUL199209035496@zeus.tamu.edu>, rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL) writes:
> 
> 	I have seen quite a few people talking about the fact that they have 
> upped the bus speed on their boards.  I was just wondering, is this simply done 
> by replacing the oscillator crystal?  Or is there something else that must be 
> done with the crystal changeout?  Ids there an easy way to determine whether the 
> board will support the new speed?

My Gateway 2000/386 has a little switch on the motherboard that can be set to
`high speed' if the user wishes.  I believe it changes the number of wait states
in the bus protocol, or some such..

Gateway sets it to `low speed' and inserts a sentence in the hardware manual
that says `increase speed at your own risk'.

I did.  Then spent many frustrating hours trying to figure out why the file
manager of MS-Windows 3.1 would freeze up when I touched drive a: or drive b:
icon.  It would operate just fine under DOS, which kept me from guessing that
it might be the bus speed causing problems.  I had to set the speed back in order
to get Windows 3.1 file manager to work right again.

So, try it.  Change nothing else for some time and verify it all still works.

js
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.wanted,mi.wanted,comp.binaries.wanted
From: cantor@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Help for a new PC user
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:44:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.045508.15744@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>
>-Can I have multiple OSes residing on my disk if I partition it?  Ie,
>can I select a partition to boot off of?  I would like to put 3 OSes
>on the same disk:  BSD386, DOS/Windows 3.1 (NT when avail), OS/2
>

	I hope you're getting a mammoth hard drive!  That's gotta be about
100 or so for NT, another 75 or so for OS/2, and I don't know how much for
BSD.  And that's only leaving minimal space for apps!

	 _______________________________________________________
	|							|
	|	Shine on.........				|
	|			Scott <Crazy Diamond> Cantor	|
	|							|
	|	[<<<<<< cantor@cis.ohio-state.edu >>>>>>]	|
	|_______________________________________________________|
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From: smp@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Shailesh M. Potnis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.multimedia
Subject: What kind of things can be done with the ATI Stereo GFX card
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:57:15 GMT
Followup-To: poster


	I got an ATI stereo GFX (sp) sound card as a promotion with
the ATI Graphics Ultra card.  I have installed it on my PC and would
like to know what kinds of things in general can be done with it.

	I am also interested in knowing more about what shareware/
freeware packages are out there at the ftp sites.  I did read the 
Sound Newsletter in the ibm.pc newsgroup which described some of the 
ftp sites.  I have however no ideas what files to ship or what to
do with them.

	All comments and suggestions to the desired info or to its
pointers such as review in some mags. etc are highly appreciated.

	Thanks in advance

	Shailesh

--
Shailesh Potnis, Associate	|Concurrent Engineering Research
Member of Technical Staff	|Center, West Virginia University
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From: ggs@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gary Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Crippled or Annoying Shareware
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:14:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Just a note to you Share-Ware people.  I had to do a project yesterday, and it
would have been nice to use K-DRAW to make some overheads.  I just downloaded
K-DRAW and this was actually my frist time using it for a real purpose.
HOWEVER, I go to the thirty five object limit and it crapped out.  Now, had
the program been available in a store, I would have gladly gone and paid for
it.  If in some way, I could have gotten immediate access to the program, 
again, I would have paid for it.  But, since I had to use another program
that wasn't crippled and I'll probably never need either again, the shareware
programmer lost out on 39.00  SORRY.  

Please ( Share-Ware ) programmers remember, there are drawbacks to getting
software from you guys.  I would have gladly sent a check to the author
of K-DRAW had I been able to use it.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
ggs@reef.cis.ufl.edu
-------------------
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:15:55 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

Just a small tidbit about Commodore's marketing and the Amiga:
What many people don't realize is the development team for the first Amiga
was actually under contract to Atari when it was owned by Warner Bros. 
Then (as I understand it) Jack Tramiel (of C64 marketing fame) left the
helm of Commodore to buy Atari (computers - the arcade game division was
sold separately), but Warner sold its rights to the Amiga to Commodore. 
Jack put together a team to design the Atari ST and Tramiel's Operating
System (TOS).  Jack and his relatives did an even worse job of marketing
the Atari than the new Commodore did in marketing the (designed for the old
Atari) Amiga.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
From: rw@donner.Rational.COM (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton's Speed Disk
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:55:32 GMT
Distribution: comp

bdavis@cray.com (Brent G Davis) writes:
>In article <92202.223626A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET> A735FJO@HASARA11.BITNET writes:
>>Norton's Speed Disks tells me that over a quarter of my harddisk
>>contains unmovable blocks.
>>Does anyone know what's wrong? (Norton? My Hard Disk?)
>
>You indeed have unmovable lost files on your hard disk.  Don't worry,
>it's quite easy to recover this space.  Just use the following:
>
>   chkdsk /f
>
>This should convert those lost files into readable (deletable) files.

Warning: CHKDSK/F is dangerous.  Do a normal CHKDSK first and see what
it says.  If you have lost clusters or crosslinked files, you'll be
much better off using NDD instead of CHKDSK/F to fix them.

Anyway, it's more likely your unmovable blocks are from hidden or
readonly files.  E.g., if you use 4DOS, you have hidden DESCRIPT.ION
files all over the place, which SD thinks are unmoveable.  You can use
ATTRIB to un-hide them and then try running SD again.

--
-- Bob Weissman
-- Internet: rw@rational.com
-- UUCP:     uunet!igor!rw
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dwormuth@hstbme.mit.edu (David W. Wormuth)
Subject: Virus Novel
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Harvard Medical School
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 17:31:45 GMT

What was the name of the novel that described the USSR stealing a US
supercomputer? This computer was rigged to activate a virus when a certain
island in the caribbean reported a certain temperature.

David W. Wormuth, MD                    Internet: dwormuth@hstbme.mit.edu
Decision Systems Group                     Voice: 617-732-7748
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
From: yting@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu (Yu-Han Ting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Any comments on COMTRADE?
Date: 26 Jul 92 08:53:36 GMT

Subject: Any comments on COMTRADE?
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Keywords: 

Hi! everyone,

   This is my first post to the net.  Please forgive me if there is anything
wrong :-)

   I think it is the right time for me to upgrade my PC.  Currently I have
a 386-25 clone.  Although it works fine, for some reasons, I'm still looking
for a more powerful machine.  Yesterday when I picked up the latest Computer
Shopper, a company called COMTRADE was advertising a series of its 486-50's.
Among the machines it advertises, I'm especially interested in the 486-50
EISA file server.  Before any decision can be made, I'd like to know if any
one had experiences with the machine (or the company?)  Any comment will be
appreciated.  Please direct your reply to:

   yting@cs.umr.edu

I'll try to summarize the results and let you know. (BTW, if you're using
any other brand of 486-50 and feel it's great, please also let me know.)

John
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