HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: boris@cashew.ctr.columbia.edu (Boris Varshavsky)
Subject: Stuart Alsop's register
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:24:54 GMT

Hi, folks!

Have you heard about Stuart Alsop's register - 
for famous persons in computing?

Could you give me some clue: publisher, year, etc.
Thank you very much in advance.

Happy computing!
-Boris
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Xref: sparky comp.misc:1893 comp.os.misc:502 comp.os.vms:8333
From: b1i3297@zeus.tamu.edu (Bryan A. Ignatow)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Webster Dictionary Server Information
Keywords: Webster, Dictionary, Server
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: b1i3297@zeus.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University/Academic Computing Services



I am looking for information on a site which is running a Webster Dictionary
Server.  I have a copy of the client, but do not have access to a local server.

I am looking for a site to serve our programming staff's workstations (just two
of at the moment).

If you have any information, please contact me by mail.

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  Programmer/Analyst I               Internet:  b1i3297@zeus.tamu.edu
  Academic Computing Services        THEnet:    zeus::b1i3297
  Texas A&M University               YellNet:   (409) 845-9577

  And this just in --
    Guerrilla exchange students have seized the governments of independent
    republics of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania and renamed them Metallica,
    Frangelica, and Wrestlemania.
                                 -- CNN, 27-Mar-1992

Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: ferincz@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Jozsef Ferincz)
Subject: Re: ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu IP number needed
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:45:14 GMT
Reply-To: ferincz@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Organic Chemistry

kmorton@panix.com (Ken Morton) writes:

>	Help!  I need the IP number for the above!
>
>			Email to kmorton@panix.com
>
>			Thanks alot!
>
>			Ken
>

ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu is a nickname for cmn13.Stanford.EDU
cmn13.Stanford.EDU has address 36.49.0.92
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Fax : +(49 30) 838 51 63     Tel.: +(49 30) 838 26 77, 838 53 63 
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes)
Subject: Re: Smiley faces
Keywords: Smiley face hatred
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 04:26:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.015300.10522@mcs.kent.edu> dmcclory@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu (Daniel McClory) writes:
>Smiley faces must be killed.
>
>Semi-seriously, I find the use of smiley faces annoying, particularly 
>obscure ones.  It seems to be sort of like the use of secret handshakes
>among members of a society.
>
>If you want to be clear, state your views in words - if you want to confuse
>and annoy, use some form of strange symbology that many readers are not
>familiar with.
>
>
>-- 
>          Daniel McClory               
>	  Kent State University        

How :-(. Poor little ":-)" only help to illustrate expressions that
are cumbersome with [A..Z]. Kill the ":-)"?  That's dreadful |-< .
Un-American, even. ;-)
 
Besides, without the ":-)" how would I be able to: echo ";->" > /dev/ttyxx
to a friend (or someone I want to annoy). Hmm? 

And those ":-)" sure beat the hell out of things like <grin>, <smile>, etc.
when interacting in a multi-user "chat" session. At least for me. Much
more expressive and quicker to type.

=8->

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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Smiley faces
Keywords: Smiley face hatred
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:03:18 GMT

sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>In article <1992Apr8.015300.10522@mcs.kent.edu>, dmcclory@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu (Daniel McClory) writes:
>>Smiley faces must be killed.

>I agree, but it's probably too late.  :-(

>Earlier writers of satire, sarcasm, and irony managed quite well
>without smileys.  No one at the time took Jonathan Swift's "A Modest
>Proposal" or Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" literally, even though
>neither author put a smiley after the text.

I'm sorry, but there have been even more outrageous things posted to
the net in total seriousness.  Take any position at all and you can
probably find someone who supports it and will do so on the net.  And
no matter how well written the sarcasm, someone is going to flame
anyhow, because they _will_ take it seriously.  However, I still say a
smilie is a copout.  The better done it is, the less flames (except
from those who recognize the sarcasm and don't appreciate it), and a
response to someone who missed the sarcasm can be enjoyably biting.
-- 
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of
socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Who drives where (who cares ?): was Re: .edu, .ca, .au = ?
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:33:42 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S

dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:

>In article <1992Mar31.091326.112@dde.dk> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:
>>bchivers@smiley.mitre.org (Brent Chivers) writes:
>>
>>> [about driving on the left]
>>>Very likely anyplace that was a British colony or possession....

>Places that were British colonies since the invention of the automobile.

This has little to do with the invention of the automobile. Most countries
decided on left or right traffic long before any cars were around. For
instance, my own country, Denmark, made it compulsory to drive
your horse carriage on the right in the 1780's, a hundred years
before the invention of the automobile.

-- 
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Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
E-mail: ct@dde.dk
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: tweaver@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Tim Weaver)
Subject: Re: Mail Order
Organization: Kalamazoo College
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:16:20 GMT

>Is it really a good idea to buy a computer mail-order?  Which companies are
>the most reliable/quality/best service?  You look in a magazine, and every
>company that advertises says they're the best, and has at least 1 "Good job,
>Company X" award from PCMagazine/BYTE, etc.  Which are the best, which are the
>worst?  Best "bang for the buck", etc?  Sorry if this is in the wrong group...

When I bought my computer, one of the things I looked at was 
Warranty & Service.  If the computer broke could I take it back and have
them fix it.  Did they have a reputation for fixing it right?  How long
would I have to leave it with them?  The nature of these questions 
automatically excluded mail order.  As far as the computer itself is
concerned.  Look at the components they're putting into it.  The mother
board, BIOS, hard-drive, disk-drives, video cards etc.. be sure they're
reputable brands and not some cheap stuff (this is where a lot of really
low priced computers save their bucks).
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From: stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu (R. Glenn Stauffer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: SPA Address/Phone #
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:03:19 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2


	Software Publishers Association
	1730 M Street NW Suite 700
	Washington, DC 20036
	
	202-452-1600

R. Glenn Stauffer
Micro-Computer Specialist, Swarthmore College Computing Center
Internet: stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: kmorton@panix.com (Ken Morton)
Subject: ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu IP number needed
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:16:39 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

	Help!  I need the IP number for the above!

			Email to kmorton@panix.com

			Thanks alot!

			Ken

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: FTP Site List
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:45:45 GMT

In article <11955@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez003338@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Tara) writes:
>Can someone please e-mail me the latest list of anonymous FTP sites?  I

 10552 Apr  6 20:09 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst
 97172 Mar  2 13:09 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/ftpsites.lst

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 35Kb)".

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
From: setera@cs.umn.edu (Craig Setera)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: FTP'ing without FTP
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:50:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr9.215059.4453
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

Well, in a couple of months I will be leaving academia and losing my
FTP access... (sigh).  I will (fortunately) still have e-mail access with
my new job.  My question is what tools should I gather before I go off to
the "real world" and how do I continue to get programs from the net?  I
have heard about Digital's FTP mail server, but don't know how to use it.
I have also heard that there is an Archie mail server, but again don't know
how to use it.  I would appreciate any information that I could get.

Please e-mail.
Thanks,
Craig (setera@cs.umn.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: scoile@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Steve Coile)
Subject: Re: functions & return values (was Re: Reinventing the wheel)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:03:54 GMT

"Not James E. Pommersheim in disguise" writes:
>[...] The only difference between a function which
>returns multiple values and function which returns a structure or an
>array is a matter of language semantics, and surely returning a
>structure (which C can do) is reasonable?

I believe this is incorrect.  A function which returns multiple values
would have that many more arguments to push onto the stack.  Passing only
a single data structure (by reference) is, by far, the simplest and
quickest way to do things.

>    Nearly all UNIX system calls, for example, have at least two return
>values, one a general success-or-failure code, and one an error number
>describing the cause of failure, if any.  The failure code is placed
>into a global variable with a special name (`errno').  This is a pretty
>nasty hack.  UNIX stat(2) returns three kinds of result: An integer
>return code, which it returns on the stack, an integer failure code,
>which it places into the global variable `errno' on failure, and some
>inode status information, which it places into a fixed-size buffer
>pointed at by one of its arguments.  Wouldn't it be conceptually simpler
>if UNIX `stat' returned an (int, int, struct stat) triple on the stack
>instead of leaving the three parts of its results in three completely
>different places?

It should be returned in a single structure, which consists of "int, int,
struct stat".  Consider the return values of VMS system services.

>    To take a simpler example, imagine a function whose parameters are
>the coeffeicients of a quadratic equation, and which returns the two
>roots.  Sure, if you were using C, you could define a special struct
>root_pair that has members for two roots, and return that, but that
>obscures what you're really doing.  

Sure, and you could wipe out FORTRAN's COMPLEX data type and do it all
yourself, too.  Come on, the whole idea with structures is to group
related information in one, simple mass.  Passing all this extra goop
around just slows things down, and makes it ugly.  Learn to use
structures people, it makes things easier.

>    Whenever I have to pass in a pointer to a fixed-size buffer where I
>want my results stored, I think of Fortran.  Common Lisp has functions
>with multiple return values and it seems to do just fine.

Lisp returns lists, not multiple return values.  You can just as easily
return a mixed type list with any other language by returning an array
of pointers.

>Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 

 Steve "Stevers!" Coile                    scoile@gmuvax[{.BITNET|[2].gmu.edu}]
            "Maturity is knowing when and where to act immature"
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: baschabj@iaserv.b1.ingr.com (John Baschab)
Subject: SPA Address/Phone #
Organization: Intergraph Corp., Huntsville AL
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:08:42 GMT

Can anyone provide me with the address or phone number of
the SPA (Software Publishers Association) ?

thanks in advance...

John

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From: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Seagate IDE drive "HELP!!!"
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:55:41 GMT
Reply-To: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.


I have a 43MB Seagate drive model ST-157A in my computer.
 
I just bought a 106MB Seagate model ST3120A.

I have been trying for the last two days to get them to work together.

First off, does anyone have the docs for the 157A?  I need to know how
to let this thing know that it now has a slave (the 157A has my boot
record for right now).  My CMOS is set properly, but I cannot get DOS
to recognize that I have a D: drive now.  I also get 'HDD failure' if
I let CMOS format the hard drive.

Thanx in advance.
-- 
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703-239-8993  or  703-764-0527  To log in for trial and account info.
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - System Admin)
Subject: Re: what is the file ~/.pnewsexpert ?
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-636-2026) - 24hrs.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 20:26:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.202649.2025@sol.UVic.CA> jtice@fester.UVic.CA (Jason W. Tice) writes:
>I've been using RN with NNTP for just over a year now...
>I have a file, in my home directory called ~/.pnewsexpert
>but there is nothing in it.
>

	There shouldn't be, as far as I know.  All it is is a hidden
file that tells rn that you aren't a new rn user.  Remember that
first screen you saw the first time you used rn...notice that
you don't see it anymore?

Marc
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From: root@eastern.COM (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: Seagate IDE drive "HELP!!!"
Organization: Public Affairs Services, Toronto
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 00:06:19 GMT

m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY) writes:

>First off, does anyone have the docs for the 157A?  I need to know how
>to let this thing know that it now has a slave (the 157A has my boot

You ought to try logging on the Seagate BBS at 408-438-8771. There is a
wealth of technical info and other related valuable stuff there. I don't
have the answer to your question in my head at the moment, but I did get
a similar answer related to two other drives on the BBS, and I suspect
you will find yours there as well.


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From: jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com (Jeffrey Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: GPC Picture Level Graphics Benchmark Results for Workstations
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:37:37 GMT
Reply-To: jwreilly@mipos2.UUCP (Jeffrey Reilly)
Organization: Microprocessor Component Group, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

In article <1992Apr8.215738.19698@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
>From the HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 Performance Brief, dated January of 1992:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The results that follow are from the Volume 1, Number 2 GPC Quarterly
>report.  (GPC is the Graphics Performance Characterization committee.)
>Silicon Graphics did not report results in time for this publication.
>The numbers here are considered "beta" results, as all of the vendors
>are still working on their ports to the PLB (picture level benchmark)
>environment.
> <Summary of results deleted>

Just as a point of reference:

Volume 1, Number 2 of the GPC Quarterly Report (mentioned in the article
above) is cover dated Summer of 1991. As pointed out, this issue contained
"beta" results. Since these were beta results, GPC strongly discouraged
cross-architecture comparisons.

The GPC has since published Volume 1, Number 3 (cover dated 4th quarter
1991) which contains results from the final official specification for the 
PLB. These numbers are not comparable to the results from the previous 
Quarterly Report (due to final changes to the PLB specification, 
particularly the adoption of two GPCmarks: the PLBlit and PLBopt). These
numbers are the ones that GPC recommends for comparison purposes.

Volume 2, Number 1 (cover dated Q1, 1992) containing further PLB results
should be available soon, if not already.

For information, contact:

GPC, c/o NCGA
2722 Merrilee Drive, Suite 200
Fairfax, Virginia 22031
Phone: 1-800-225-NCGA

Jeff

Jeff Reilly			| "There is something fascinating about
Intel Corporation		| science. One gets such wholesale returns
jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com	| of conjecture out of such a trifling
(408) 765 - 5909		| investment of fact" - M. Twain
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: von@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve Von Worley)
Subject: Computational Power Increases
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:30:21 GMT

I'm not sure where to post this, but this group seems as good as any:

Does anyone know what the estimated average rate of increase of 
computational power is, per year?  For example, do systems increase in 
floating point power by a factor of 1.5 per year?

If you do know these number, can you also post a full reference of the
source?

Thanks for your help,

Steve

Stephen "Feed Me Giblets and Call Me Frank" Von Worley
von@wuccrc.wustl.edu
Computer and Communications Research Center
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: SPEC Results for Workstations
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:01:28 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1944@eru.mt.luth.se> sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) writes:

| In article <1992Apr2.234929.19182@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
| |
| |
| |SPECfp Ratings for Various Workstations
| |----------------------------------------
| |SGI Indigo	 28.4
| |Sun SS2		 27.4
| 
| This is two very interesting figures that proves that the SPECS is as
| good as whetstone linpack or some other toy benchmark. Why you ask?
| 
| I had borrowed an SGI Indigo from SGI Sweden and ported DYNA3D (a FEA 
| program) the the INDIGO. I was very surpriced that the Indigo runs
| twice as fast as the SS2 on real problems. Both machines had 32Mb
| memory.
| 
| Unfortunately I dont have acces to an Indigo any more so I can not run
| any other test to verify if it is the same relations with other programs.

I have heard similar things from our technical marketing folks.  That
is, that 'real' code (whatever that is) shows Indigo as better than the
benchmarks would indicate.  The usual theory advanced is the high
memory bandwidth, the moderately large write buffer (nominally 8 deep,
but due to some other interactions with the memory controller, it can
be somewhat deeper in practice), and also low memory latency.

Never having profiled the system with an analyzer or other tools while
these programs ran, I really can't say if this theory is correct.
--
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com (Jeffrey Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: SPEC SDM results
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:10:19 GMT
Reply-To: jwreilly@mipos2.UUCP (Jeffrey Reilly)
Organization: Microprocessor Component Group, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

In article <92103.123848ERDAL@TRMETU.BITNET> ERDAL@TRMETU.BITNET (Erdal Taner) writes:
>Hello,
>Last week, I asked for SPEC Fax Number, and I got a response informing that
>the fax is 703 560 2752. I requested SPEC SDM results, but I havent got
>any reply.
>  It would be appreciated If someone show me the way to get these results.
>Please directly e-mail to me.
>-Erdal

As a point of reference:

Upon a request for results, the SPEC administrator will most likely recommend
purchasing a Newsletter subsription/back issue or suggest calling the vendor
directly.

With current resources, SPEC is only able to provide benchmark tapes and SPEC
Newsletters, which contain results from the various SPEC benchmarks. The
prices (from Volume 4, Issue 1, March 1992 SPEC Newsletter) for back issues of
the newsletter are as follows:

Volume 1, Issue 1 (1989): $25 each
Volume 2, Issue 1, 2, 3, 4 (1990): $25 each
Volume 3, Issue 1 (1991): $25 each
Volume 3, Issue 2, 3 , 4 (1991): $150 each

A yearly subscription is $550.

Jeff

Jeff Reilly			| "There is something fascinating about
Intel Corporation		| science. One gets such wholesale returns
jwreilly@mipos2.intel.com	| of conjecture out of such a trifling
(408) 765 - 5909		| investment of fact" - M. Twain
From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: SPEC benchmarks for everything from 780 thru '486 to Cray?
Date: 11 Apr 1992 03:17:18 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu

Does anyone have an online listing of relative performance figures
for machines from the low end through current high end Cray Y-MP's?

Thanks, AJ Annala

Principal Investigator
Neuroscience Image Analysis Network
University of Southern California

Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks