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From: kepley@cs.unca.edu (Brad Kepley)
Subject: Re: Byte's Amiga 4000 review...
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:59:43 GMT


>reaction from DOS users

1) How much money?
2) How well will it simulate DOS?  Will it run DOS programs requiring such
   DOS crap as expanded memory?  How about windows programs?]

My reaction is that I wish I had one just like I wish I had a SUN system 
with one of those humongous monitors, just like I wish I had one of those
beautiful NeXt machines, just like I wish I had a Macintosh.
In the meantime I _have_ to have a DOS machine. That's all there is
to it.
From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Byte's Amiga 4000 review...
Date: 1 Jan 93 03:44:13 CST
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network


Every once in a while, you may have noticed, Byte decides to give us Amiga
users a fair deal and actually review major new releases/upgrades to the Amiga
line of workstations and user-level machines..In this case, the Amiga 4000.



What the industry is now faced with, is a machine that can run full-screen
animations (read: NOT miniature window-sized movies) at a full 30 frames per
second, using 262,144 colors simultaneously, which puts image quality
indiscernable from full 24-bit graphics. Ontop of that, it has an '040 under
the hood for some pretty beefy horsepower for whatever else interests you,
everything from DTP to 3-D modeling..A bus architecture faster than the
Macintosh Quadra's NuBus, and EISA, and slick NeXT'ish user interface, and a
high-speed  multitasking OS driving the whole thing have been the trademarks of
the Amiga line since day one.


All the bragging aside, im curious as to how the MSDOS community views this
machine. Whats your reaction to it? Being an ex-MSDOS user myself, I can
identify with the pretty inaccurate assumption of "Amigas are game machines" 
response, primarrily because I once believed that statement was true..So for
those of you who still think this way, ill ask you to refrain from commenting..
the last thing I want to have here is another Amiga vs MSDOS flame war. What id
primarrily like to hear is the reaction from those of you who consider
yourselves "wise" as to having experience with platforms other than your own.


As an Amiga user myself, the A4000 (and more specifically, the third
[Bgeneration Amiga chipset its built around) represent a fairly substantial
leap forward in the state of our platform, finally giving the Mac / Unix and
especially MSDOS communities something to think about..

Again, I should stress that this post is NOT intended to begin an MSDOS vs
Amiga flamewar.. Id just like to hear some comments from the other side of the
table. :)





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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 in 256 colors under OS/2 (Any Suggestions)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:30:20 GMT

cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu (Student Class Account) writes:

>I would like to use OS/2 in 1280x1024x256colors , and would welcome any and
>all suggestions on how to do this.  I have come up with two options so far:

>[random deletions]

>2.  Buy the $1700 TIGA card, and hope for drivers for OS/2 from digital or Appian.
>Appian.

For my two cents, I strongly recommend against buying any equipment against
the prospect of a driver appearing. I have a stack of equipment in the corner
of my lab that is "awaiting drivers; anytime now" for os/2. Some of it
the maker has promised "to be working on a driver" for 6 months. I'm not
holding my breath. I'm not trying to flame here: many video card makers
blame the fact that the Video DDK does not yet exist, which is true.
But such "any day now" promises are trash. A good example is the S3 911 cards
(such as orchid F1280). The drivers have just come out, and still don't 
support seamless mode. In the meantime, the sucessor to the 911 has come
out, the 928, which (suprise) has no os/2 driver (but certainly a windows
driver !). The point being that having bought such a card, you may well find
that it is obsolete by the time you get a driver.
Besides, buying a card with a driver promised rewards sloth. Card makers don't
get money for producing drivers. They get it when you buy the card.
Asking for the os/2 drivers and refusing purchase unless provided with the card
gets the point across.

                                                    [sam]

(Me ? I'm going with XGA-2, which is supported by the software MAKERS of 
BOTH os/2 and WIN 3.x/NT).
-- 
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samiam@netcom.com     | important than your 
Santa Cruz, CA USA    | mother"
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From: jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John D. Zitterkopf)
Subject: Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:53:57 GMT

	I could be mistaken about all of this, so...

	If you look at the heads of a standard floppy drive you'll notice
that there is not much area between the disk media and the heads. I also would
be lead to believe that the field put out by the heads of the FD are quite 
strong as far as the disk media is concerned. Since the 3.5" disk is of a 
different media type than the older 360k 5.25" DD disks, I'd guess that the
are less succepable than the 3.5" disks. The 3.5" disk also has a good sum of
metal on it to disappate the H field, not to mention the thicker plastic
between the media and the source h field. 
	As far as the degausing coil, I think that most of the M feild exists
OUTSIDE the loop. If that person placed the coil on the ground and then 
placed the disks inside the loop in the ground, them most of the feild wasn't
even affecting the disk. 

	Unfortuantly, I didn't do to well in ElectroMagnetic Feilds one last
term, an I'll have to try again this term 8-(. So, ask this question at a
later date 8-)...

John

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From: cheallen@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Allendoerfer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DCA Going Bankrupt?
Date: 24 Dec 92 22:03:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Warning to prospective customers of Digital Communications
Associates (DCA) the makers of Crosstalk products.  This
company has started charging peoples credit cards long before
the product they ordered is ready to ship.  They charged me
for Crosstalk for Windows 2.0 a month ago and I still haven't
got it.
   This kind of behavior from previously reputable companies
is often a sign of impending bankruptcy.  How about it DCA?
When are you going to file?
From: MCWHORTER_D@ALB000.dnet.ge.com (Dean McWhorter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Missing COM1 - COM4 on 286 Clone
Date: 31 Dec 1992 09:55:04 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


	Dear IBM People,

	    I recently acquired an old NCR AT (286) clone and a modem.
	I am now trying to use the modem, but I have a problem. When I
	issue a mode command, the list that comes up contains the CON
	and the LPTxx, but there are no COMx listed.

	    Naturally, there were no manuals with this machine. It does
	contain a single card (other than the motherboard) that the
	disks are connected to. That card also has a 9-pin port and a
	25-pin port.

	    What am I missing here? Do I need to install the COMs
	myself? Help. Please respond via email as I cannot read this
	group. Thanks in advance.

						Dean McWhorter
						CMA Consulting

					mcwhorter_d@alb001.dnet.ge.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ummalik@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ijaz Rashid Malik)
Subject: SECURING a directory and its contents
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:27:57 GMT


Hello,
I am working on a database application and I am really concerened about the
security issues. This app will run on a single machine in an important office.
PC's are not networked so imposing a centeral control can't be done.
I have made sure that there are no loop holes (cross my fingers :-)) in the
app itself. But the MS-DOS itself is a major threat. I dont want the user to
see the app files and access its directory once she quits the database app.
For this I have (for start) made the directory and all its files HIDDEN. But
I know this is just a low profile, low tech quick and dirty solution. Better
solutions have to exists. I would very much appreciate any ideas or solutions
to this problem.

Thanks very much in advance.

regards,
Malik.
ummalik@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (Kirtikumar G. Satam)
Subject: Terminal Emulation on PC
Keywords:  VT100 emulation, IBM/PC and ANSI.SYS, PD software
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, India.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:22:20 GMT

Hello there!!
	I'm not a regular reader of this newsgroup, nor I'm an expert in 
DOS and PC. Plese respond by e-mail.
Also, please be as descriptive as possible.

There is a need for development of VT100 terminal emulator for IBM PC
compatibles. I know there are quite a bit of such packages available in
the Public Domain and one can get it free.

Well, the problem is bit different. The need to support native language
text (not english) and absolutely no file transfer capabilities needed.
Just understanding VT100 escape sequences are needed.

I tried looking into source code of various PD software for
understanding how it is done. But, only kermit source is available and
it is in ASM!! QVT bin was available, but no source ( I guess it is
based on C code). Does anybody knows a PD software doing termimal
emulation and having source available for either C or PASCAL, or does
anybody done similar thing and want to share it?

Another way was to use ANSI.SYS driver and write communication part.
Well, the aim is to further this idea of terminal emulation without
using DOS (but using PC hardware) and putting the code in ROM so that PC
boots upto VT100 terminal (supporting native langauge, ofcourse). In
such cases, ANSI.SYS will be useless, I guess.

Can any kind soul help me in this. Is there any serious flaw in my
ideas. Can share some terminal emulation code with me, I won't have to
worry about managing that part. Is there any Public domain source (C or
PASCAL) avaiable?

Please do send me e-mails with all your ideas and information. It will
be of great help.

Thanks.

	- satam.
		satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in
		satam@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:53:26 GMT

avinash@sam.contex.com (Avinash Chopde) writes:

>This brings up another question---I have seen many persons (me too), 
>keep floppies close to the monitor.
>And the monitor is turned on and off once a day.
>I have done this for more than two years now, but my floppies are still
>readable, so it seems that the magnetic field on a floppy is quite
>strong and does not get destroyed easily.

>Yet, have heard horror stories of floppies near huge loudspeakers,
>or over a TV, etc, are these stories really true, or are they urban
>legends?

They are mostly true.  Loudspeakers and TVs (in fact _any_ appliance with
transformers including flourescent ballasts) emit _alternating_ magnetic
fields, which can destroy the data on a floppy instantly if strong enough.
In your case, the floppies probably aren't close enough, and/or they are
on a side of the monitor away from the flyback and any other transformer.
Also, your monitor probably has a cage around the loudest emitters.

-JTT

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Subject: Disk geometry for Microp 1578 anyone?
Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:53:47 GMT

The subject: line says it all... does anyone have the disk geometry
for the Microp 1578 handy? I've been given one on format or fail (DOS)
basis, but I need track/sector info to make it play under dos (SCSI).
I don't subscribe, so info via mail would be a bonus.

Thanks in advance...

Tony.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rjm1@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (bob.j.mohorek)
Subject: Gateway Telepath/Wealthbuilder Problem
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:38:07 GMT
Keywords: Gateway, Wealthbuilder 


	I recently received Money magazines Weathbuilder/Smart Investor
	software. I am trying to register online through my Gateway
	2000 486 with the Telepath Modem.

	When I try to call in to Reality Technologies to send my new 
	user request the program hangs "while trying to initialize" 
	the modem. I have it set to COM3 which is what I use for both 
	Crosstalk and Qmodem with no problems. I have a feeling 
	"Wealthbuilder" expects the COM3 IRQ to be 4 not 5 as it is set 
	for the Telepath. Any suggestions or help on resolving this 
	would be appreciated. Their Help line is verrrryyy sllooowww...

Interrupt

							Bob
From: sergio@Ingres.COM (Sergio L Aponte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PC Speaker Volume Control
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:15:06 GMT
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


	What we need here is some enterprising soul that will write a TSR
	or a device driver to redirect speaker output to the (card-of-choice)
	once (card-of-choice) is installed. This could be loaded on boot and
	all sound should then come out thru the card.

	I am amazed that sound card manufacturers don't provide this with
	their own cards.

	The solution still requires a sound card. To increase the volume
	of your in-board speaker, you will have to somehow increase the signal,
	which is basically what an AMP does. By the time you spend money on
	some kind of AMP, install it, replace the blown speaker, etc... You
	probably should just buy the sound card... ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth)
Subject: How to use Entended memory effectively
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:19:04 GMT


	I have 16 megs of memory on my system, and I want to use it to
run drivers and other programs there as well as have some left over for
programs that require extended/expanded memory. Does anyone know how to
use it effectively? I read the MSDOS manual and tried it, but it doesn't
really work. I was hoping I could make my system run really fast with 16
megs. btw, I have a 486dx 33. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!:)

Thanks,



-- 
Christopher M. Toth             | "... We travel in the dark of a new moon
The Ohio State University       | A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Columbus State                  | Like lovers and heroes,
CIS/History/Classics/ect..Major | Lonely as the eagle's cry..." -Peart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DTK '286 CMOS setup help needed
From: jmilburn@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 26 Dec 92 21:35:16 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

I have an old DTK-based '286 system that boots up with an "INVALID
CONFIGURATION - PLEASE RUN SETUP" type error.

CTRL-ALT-ESC and CTRL-ALT-S do not take me to the CMOS setup screen.
The computer does not give a "Hit this key to run SETUP" message upon
startup.  I think I need a piece of software to run the CMOS setup, or
I'm not hitting the right keys.


The correct software or the right key combination would be appreciated.
The system is based upon a DTK '286-10 motherboard.

Thanks,

Jeremy Milburn
JMILBURN@OREAD.CC.UKANS.EDU

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs)
Subject: Re: Why HD led stays on and world stops for a while?
Organization: UNLV
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:24:11 GMT

>        I have Seagate 65MB RLL + Stacker 2 and I am having this
>        odd problem. Sometimes on second partition HD led turns on
>        and everything stops for few (5 - 20) seconds. Then it continues
>        without problem. It depends which programs I am using. Some
>        does it never but eg. Wing Commander 2 was a pain, because
>        every minute it stopped and it happened mostly in battles
>        so it was quite annoying.
Are you using the Smartdrive that comes with Windows 3.1? It uses delayed 
write to disk and if every now and then too much accumulates in the write 
buffer and it hasn't been given a chance to write to disk it will interrupt 
everything else to catch up with its backlog. On a slower machine/drive 
especially this could cause some relatively lengthy interruptions at 
seemingly random times.

Lamont Downs
downs@helios.nevada.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cces@ecf.toronto.edu (Congress of Can Eng Students)
Subject: Re: Searching for HP LaserJet 4 Drivers
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:41:59 GMT

In article <cZq4VB2w165w@quink.in-berlin.de> mtheil@quink.in-berlin.de (Matthias Theil) writes:
>
>a friend of mine bought a HP LaserJet 4. But he is missing drivers to
>use it under Windows or generally with some applications. However, the
>drivers-disk which came with the machine is not very completely.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Matthias Theil

We just bought three of them, and we called HP when we found that there 
were no Windows drivers included.  They said that there were no drivers
written for it yet (pretty stupid to put out a printer with no drivers...)
but the HPIII drivers can be used.  The only problem with the HPIII drivers
is that you can't use the 600dpi or many other features that made us buy the
HPIV.  The disks do include a WP driver though.

-- 
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| Electrical Engineering | cces@ecf.utoronto.ca     | "I think that you're     |
| University of Toronto  | campano@ecf.utoronto.ca  |  pretty tough            |
From: davidg@meaddata.com (David Galehouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: WANTED: Opinions of Fast-Micro
Date: 28 Dec 1992 17:04:48 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniform.meaddata.com

I was considering buying an Insight system until some of the postings
in this group scared me off - thanks to all who posted!

Now I have my eyes on a system from Fast-Micro. Has anyone had any
experiences (good or bad) with this company? Thanks for any info! 


-- 
 David A. Galehouse | ...!uunet!meaddata!davidg                          
 Mead Data Central  | davidg@meaddata.com                             
 P.O. Box 933       | Any opinions expressed                          
 Dayton, OH  45401  | are mine, not MDC's.
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From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
Subject: Re: How to use Entended memory effectively
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:50:24 GMT

ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:


>	I have 16 megs of memory on my system, and I want to use it to
>run drivers and other programs there as well as have some left over for
>programs that require extended/expanded memory. Does anyone know how to
>use it effectively? I read the MSDOS manual and tried it, but it doesn't
>really work. I was hoping I could make my system run really fast with 16
>megs. btw, I have a 486dx 33. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!:)

>Thanks,



>-- 
>Christopher M. Toth             | "... We travel in the dark of a new moon
>The Ohio State University       | A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
>Columbus State                  | Like lovers and heroes,
>CIS/History/Classics/ect..Major | Lonely as the eagle's cry..." -Peart

The best that I've been able to determine is to get a real OS - UNIX, OS/2, 
NT. The problem is that DOS can't address beyond 1MB. There is supposedly 
384K between 640K and 1MB for loading things "high", but this area is 
also used for display memory, BIOS, and mapping some boards such as 
SCSI and/or networking. I've got a mixture of drivers that could load 
outside of the 640K area, but some only will load into expanded memory 
and to emulate expanded memory uses up 64K of the upper memory area, so 
thes rest of my drivers have less room than before. It seems like a 
no win situation. I'm thinking of OS/2, but I don't think my 
network drivers will work.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: I.B.M.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:08:15 GMT

In <BznvCH.Iq9@newcastle.ac.uk> I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:

>cavlier@xamiga.linet.org (Jon) writes:

>>All I want to say is the I.B.M. is coming up with a new computer to compete 
>>with amiga

>Come on 
>TRUCE TIME!   It's getting out of hand!

>Let us have peace - no more Amiga vs PC nonesense - please!

>It's Christmas everyone, peace and goodwill to all men!

What!? You mean this flame war is still going on?

 I thought when I put this into my kill file 3 weeks ago it was pretty much
done with.

 God am I glad I sold my Amiga.
-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
From: gnaa38@udcf.gla.ac.uk (Paul Porcelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: binary to ascii software?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 05:33:36 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Could anyone tell me if they know of public domain software which will
convert a binary file to an ascii file. The file will be resident on a
486PC running DOS 5.0
Thanks a lot.
Paul Porcelli
Glasgow University
e-mail : gnaa38@uk.ac.gla.udcf
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SECURING a directory and its contents
Distribution: world
Date: 29 Dec 92 08:03:52 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

I think I am coming late into this discussion and have to guess at the
original question...

If you want selective directory security in a DOS environment, take a look
at DR DOS 6.0.

I agree that a real whiz kid can probally get past the passwords, but 99%
of your users won't even try, let alone succeed. But then if if has to be
that secure, you had best tightly control who has access to the equipment,
and lock the drives in a vault when not in use.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

jim_johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us
from Calumet, Michigan, USA -the world's former copper mining capital, 
located on Lake Superior and home to America's newest National Park,
** The Keweenaw National Historic Park **
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