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From: bjp2399@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.J. Prusha )
Subject: Re: Need Help Setting up Seagate Drive/CMOS
Originator: bjp2399@ultb
Keywords: Hard Drive, CMOS
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:09:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.031536.26212@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> dakos@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Dennis Akos) writes:
>
>     I'm hoping someone can help me out here, well I just stuck in a
>new Motherboard 386DX-20, to upgrade my 386SX-16. Anyways I stuck in
>all my cards, started it up and I get a 'XCMOS checksum error'
>so I go to set-up my CMOS (have 386-BIOS 1987 AMI) and it gives
>me a choice of 47 hard drives, which did I have, I have no idea, since
>I didn't check before swapping not sure I can now (no doc)
>
>     It is a MFM Seagate ST-251 appx. 40 MB space, the CMOS ask for
>one of the 47 types, if someone has this drive type and can tell me what
>the following are, I'd greatly appreciate i


Try this: 

            Cyln  Head  WPcom  LZone  Sec  Size
   
             989   5     0      988   17    43M


    We use a model 94205-51   40M Seagate here at work.  It is selected
as drive type 43.

		Good luck.
					Brock Prusha

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From: ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann)
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:32:21 GMT

Because they want to make people stay with DOS/WIN
and not going to far superior OSses (like OS/2 2.0).

And they don't deliver Excel 4 for OS/2 2.0 because they
dislike IBM. Or do they need Excel (one of the more
usable MS-Products) to support their Semi- (WIN) and
Vaporware- (NT) OSses?

And they don't adhere to standards, namely they introduced
TrueType instead of using the common PostScript in their
Win31 -- adds great confusion to the marketplace.

Just my personal opinion.

Ralf

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From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
Date: 30 Aug 92 08:18:08 GMT
Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

In article <17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu>, chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu writes:
> According to a friend who's running Window NT beta, it is slow as hell...
> (he equated it to Window 3.1 running on 286 with 1MB of RAM) And mind you,
> he's running Window NT on a 486DX-50 with 32 MB RAM and 1.2 GIG HD...
> 


To quote Microsoft: "that's only because we have a lot of
debuggng code in there.  The final production version will be
at least twice as fast." (source: a speaker at the Win developers
conference at the Moscone center a while back).  Now it's up to
every one of us to either believe that or not.  The way I figure
it is,  that either the above statement is true;  or Microsoft
made _a_big_mistake_ putting too much clock-cycle hungry security
and intelligence into NT;  making it an OS that only a 586/686
PC can devour (or the Alpha,  which is totally ridicolous for
a porting target;  but which _may_ and I stress _MAY_ be a way
out of the DOS-nightmare).

Aki.
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From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Does ProComm 2.0 support MNP in software?
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:59:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.125631.2787@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
>Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:
>
>>I just upgraded to an internal fax-modem board.  It came with BitFax &
>>BitCom software.  I noticed that BitCom apparently supports MNP4 in
>>software for modems (like my new one) does does not have hardware MNP. I
>>have been using ProComm Plus 1.1b for sometime now and really like it for
>>my everyday type communications and would like to know if 2.0 also supports
>>software MNP?
>
>No. The *only* programs that seem to do software MNP are the ones
>that come with modems like yours.

Not true. There is a program called odyssey that can do software MNP 1-5.
Shareware. Obtainable via FTP from several sites.
It can also do background up- and downloading. Easy to use, much like
Procomm and Telix.

In SIMTEL it is in the msdos' modem directory under the name odysy150.lzh

European users:  nic.funet.fi: /pub/msdos/communications/modem/odysy150.lzh
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From: cjohnson@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Johnson)
Subject: Does anyone have any info on adaptec hard drive controllers?
Summary: I want to make a ESDI hard drive controller secondary
Keywords: ESDI
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:42:28 GMT

Hello all,

I was wondering If anybody has any info..or know where there might be
info on adaptec hard drive controllers.

The controller I have is :

adaptec inc.
acb-2320
assy412906-01 rev d

If this helps I have an ESDI 89.8 meg hard drive.

I want to be able to make that controller secondary, because I allready
have a 40 MG IDE hard drive that I want to run as well.

If anyone can help that would be great.

Thanx,

Chris..

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Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:44:22 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann) writes:
> Because they want to make people stay with DOS/WIN
> and not going to far superior OSses (like OS/2 2.0).
> 
> And they don't deliver Excel 4 for OS/2 2.0 because they
> dislike IBM. Or do they need Excel (one of the more
> usable MS-Products) to support their Semi- (WIN) and
> Vaporware- (NT) OSses?
> 
> And they don't adhere to standards, namely they introduced
> TrueType instead of using the common PostScript in their
> Win31 -- adds great confusion to the marketplace.
> 
> Just my personal opinion.

Don't forget about the undocumented features in DOS and Windows that MS apps
make use of, but no one else was told about...........you don't want a company
like that having a near monopoly on the desktop. 
 
No principles. No integrity. 
 
So sue me.
 
Steve

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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |  September 19, 1992, then you 
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  must like things the way they 
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From: tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: What is local bus?
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: tomw@esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.

In article <1992Sep2.163017.25644@cci632.cci.com>, sjo@cci632.cci.com (Steve Owens) writes:

> 	I read in Computer Shopper recently that VESA has developed a
> Local Bus standard that the industry is adopting.  Since I'm going to
> be in the market for a new motherboard within the next few months, I
> was wondering:

> 	1) What's the difference between Local Bus and EISA?

EISA is a real system bus.  Local Bus just adds 1-3 special slots that
run at processor speed.  EISA will cost you $1000.  Local Bus will cost
you $50-$100.  Local Bus is faster than EISA.

Note that there are EISA Local Bus machines being sold.  Seems pretty
stupid to me.  As far as I'm concerned, the main advantage of EISA is
speed, so why not just get a regular ISA Local Bus machine?

Local Bus gives you up to 3 32-bit slots that run at the processor
speed.  Generally, they use EISA-style connectors, but they aren't EISA
compatible.  If you want to use the 32-bit slots, you have to get
special cards for it.  Orchid now sells a Fahrenheit local bus board.
ATI is going to be selling new versions of their Windows accelerator
cards that work in a local bus.

> 	2) I know the industry has only been luke-warm about adopting
> 	   EISA, but how do you think Local Bus will contend?

Very well.  It's nearly free, and it gives you at least 6x as much
bandwidth as regular ISA.  As I said, Orchid and ATI are already making
graphics boards, and there are several caching disk controller
manufacturers who area makeing local bus cards.

> 	3) Should I wait and purchase a Local Bus motherboard when they
> 	   become more abundant?

You should wait until the new VESA-compatible Local Bus motherboards
start appearing.

> 	4) What about ISA?  Is it basically a dying breed, or is there
> 	   enough life left in it for me to consider purchasing a
> 	   motherboard with an ISA bus?

The nice thing about Local Bus is it still has a regular ISA bus on it.
You can still use all your old cards.

> 	The processors I'm considering at this point are either a
> 486-25 or a 486-33, with a minimum of 8Mb RAM to start.  I'm not
> sure which manufacturer I'll look for, but I'm sure it will be a
> name I know (such as Mylex, AMI, or Chips & Technologies.)  The
> only thing I'm not sure of is bus architecture.

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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:59:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Where to obtain uuencode and uudecode ???
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

  On SIMTEL. See comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives on how to access SIMTEL.
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From: 10741445@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (PAUL TZU WEN)
Subject: OS2 - What is it ?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:57:05 GMT

I am in the dark with OS2 - so could someone please help me out ? Firstly, 
what is OS2 ? As far as I know it is some sort of operating system where you 
can do multitasking. Is that correct ? My questions are:
1) Is it any good ?
2) What do you need to run it ?
3) How do other programs/games work with it ?
Thanks in advance.
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 10:50:41 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

Spartacus at Cuny <M05BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:

[I said "get Linux"]
>     Hmm, how many megs required for a Linux installation?
>I never had any experience with Unix and I'm curious to try
>out.  I like Linux price already ;-)
It requires an ISA or EISA system with at least a 386SX and 4M RAM. I don't
know about disk space, but I have still >20M free on my 64M Linux partition.
And I installed several goodies, like Emacs and it's info files, UUCP and News,
which consume considerable amounts of harddisk space. The MCC interim release
is 5x1.2M disks of which one boot-disk. So I guess the base installation takes
about 15M. This gives you a very complete system with C, C++, make, vi (no
emacs), sh, getty, shoelace (to boot it from HD), etc.

>------------------------------+      "Que viva el OS/2!"
If you already have OS/2, then you have more than enough recourses for Linux!

Greetings,
Peter Busser
From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Test for Pkt Drv
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:43:20 GMT
Organization: Sonoma state university

How do I test in a batch file if a 
packet driver has been loaded ?

Thank you
Michel
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Keywords: Unknown
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:14:28 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert) writes:

>nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:

>>The UNIX system is perfect,
>>nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
>>If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
>>32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.

>I'm sure not to no the UN*X you use. The UN*X'es I know did not cause any 
>enthusiasm for me.
You have never used Linux.

>Why not run OS/2 ?
Because I can't have the sources. The structure of the HPFS file system is
proprietary, as is everything else in OS/2.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:28:18 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
> stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:
> 
> 
> What about the 15 Meg of RAM Word for Windows 2
> takes up.  Sounds like damm crappy ineffecient
> code to me.

Word uses 15 megs of RAM?  You mean Hard disk space.  And 15 megs
seems to be around the norm for high end word processors now.  Don't
get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft, too.  Ami Pro 3.0 is tons better
than Word for Windows.  Just wanted to point out the inconsistency.

> -- 
>   Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO             _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
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From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: What is the best anti-virus program???
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:33:40 GMT

I like McAfee's VirusScan and Clean programs.
They are available as shareware (I think the registration costs $35-- still
cheaper than retail software!).
It is revised almost monthly to find more (recent) viruses.
It is EASY to use.
It works!!!!!!  I speak from experience (unfortunately, a bad experience).
McAfee specializes in Virus software.
Other companies (Norton, Central Point, etc) just produce anti-virus programs
on the side, but their main focus is the larger stuff.
There really is no reason to spend more money than you have to for a
good, reliable Anti-Virus program.

Pete V.
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From: reichert@rtsg.mot.com (Charles H. Reichert)
Subject: Re: DR DOS EMM386 Error
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:07:45 GMT

"Stuff Deleted"

>EMM386 is apparently forced - perhaps because of SSTOR being in use, so QEMM
>refuses to load, telling me another memory manager is already resident. If
>someone from novell.com can clarify this for me, I'd appreciate hearing from
>them, as I would indeed rather use QEMM...

Any memory manager should be loaded first (if possible) and by itself.

EMM386.SYS or QEMM.SYS, but not both

HIMEM.SYS or HIDOS.SYS, but not both

I've loaded EMM386 and HIDOS together, same for QEMM and HIMEM, but was just
experimenting and would not recommend it.  Doesn't gain you anything plus may
cause problems down the line.

I used QEMM on my previous 386-25DX board because DR-DOS's manager would never
load right, but it now works flawlessly with my new 486-33DX Local Bus AMI
motherboard.  (Go figure??)  

There is definitely differences from one board to another, usually little quirky
things.  If you can't make a program work with a particular configuration then
use DR-DOS's menu feature in your CONFIG.SYS file.  I have 7 different 
configurations to select from for one reason or another.  

One quirk was on my 386 I could load Drivers, TSR's up into F000-F7FF without
any problems but had to exclude F000-FFFF for the 486.  Number of Engineering
programs crashed or wouldn't load until I excluded this region.  

	Chuck Reichert    KD9JQ


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From: dmk@air16.larc.nasa.gov (Dan M. Koppen)
Subject: WANTED: Chicony phone or address
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:20:42 GMT

Hi netters,
   A week or so back I sent out a plea for help in finding a phone
number or address for Chicony. I need help with my CH-386S-16D 
motherboard configuration. This is a re-plea! Can anyone put me in
touch with this company.

Thanks,
Daniel Koppen
dmk@air31.larc.nasa.gov
From: wet!noah@well.sf.ca.us (Noah Spurrier)
Subject: VGA Vertical Sync Problems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Date: 2 Sep 92 04:43:31 GMT


Does anyone know how to create a vertical sync for VGA? I am trying to
have a smooth color palette rotation, but the screen flickers. This is
essentialy the same problem that you encounter when trying to do flicker-free
animation... Standard VGA does not support IRQ2 as EGA does. My Card does have
an IRQ2 option, but I want my software to be portable... I tired adding the
following wait loop just before I update the palette, but I still get noise
in the upper 1/4 of the screen.

void set_all_rgb_palette(unsigned char far * pal)
{
 /* If a Vert Blank was already in progress then wait for next one */
 while (inportb (0x03da) & 0x08)
   ;

 /* Wait for Vertical Scan to end. Vert Blank Starts after this */
 while ( ! (inportb (0x03da) & 0x08))
   ;

 _AH = 0x10;
 _AL = 0x12;
 _BX = 0;
 _CX = 0x100;
 _ES = FP_SEG (pal);
 _DX = FP_OFF (pal);
 geninterrupt (0x10);
}

As you can se this uses Turbo-C psuedo register variables to about assembly.
Port Location 3da & 8 is the bit that goes high when the VGA is currently
in a Vertical Blank condition. My idea is to only update the palette while
the Vertical Sync is blanked. Seems obvious, but it isn't perfect.

What to do?

Please Email and Reply post your responses... Or at least Email...

Thanks!

Noah@wet.UUCP

OOPSS... That's supposed to be  noah@wet.UUCP   No capital N in noah...
From: ltuttle+@CMU.EDU (Luke David Tuttle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Norton and Stacker
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:14:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.wea1j1y00WB9I7oVAe
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Has anyone had any problems runninc norton desktop under windows,
while using stacker...

I keep getting a general protection fault..

Luke

ltuttle+@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: torgerso@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Shad P. Torgerson)
Subject: Test
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 05:11:05 GMT


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From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
Bcc:  mitchell
Reply-To: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:05:22 GMT

in comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, smahn@vx.cis.umn.edu (Seokmin Ahn) said:


>Hi! netters,
>
>The advertisement about modems confused me about Baud rate and BPS.
>
>Would someone please clear up this for me ?

Probably not.  But I'll give it a try:


Short answer:  When people say "baud" they usually mean "bits/sec",
               but not always.  When they don't mean "bits/sec" they'll
               usually take pains to make that clear, but not always.
 
Slightly longer answer:  (from TNHD)

  baud [simplified from its technical meaning] n.  Bits per second [...];
  this coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no framing
  or stop bits.  Most hackers are aware of these nuances but blithely
  ignore them. 
 
Even longer answer: (from DEC Technical Aspects of Data Communications) 
 
  Baud:  A unit of signalling speed equal to the number of discrete
  conditions or signal events per second.  In asychronous transmission, 
  the unit of signalling speed corresponding to one unit interval per 
  second; that is, if the duration of the interval is 20 ms, the 
  signalling speed is 50 baud.  Baud is the same as "bits per second" 
  only if each signal event represents exactly one bit. 
 

Another perspective (from Andy Tanenbaum's Computer Networks book)

  The time T required to transmit the character depends on both the
  encoding method and the signalling speed (the number of times per
  per second that the signal changes its value).  The number of changes
  per second is measured in baud.  a B baud line does not necessarily
  transmit B bits/sec, since each signal might convey several bits.
  If the voltages 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 were used, each signal value could
  be used to convey three bits, so the bit rate would be three times
  the baud rate.

And another one (from UDS Applied Data Communications Handbook)

  Baud - The unit of signalling.  It is the number of signal elements
  per second.  Since a signal element can represent more than one bit,
  baud rate is not the same as bits per second.  Baud rate is the bit
  rate divided by bits per symbol.

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From: smp@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Shailesh M. Potnis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.lang.c++
Subject: What kinds of problems to expect with BCC 3.0 under Windows 3.1
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:08:12 GMT
Followup-To: poster


	I am told by Borland that the BCC 3.0 purchased by me can't be
upgraded to v3.1 since it was bought under a scholar program, and also advised
that I consider buying a new version.  I would like to live with BCC 3.0 since
I do not wish to spend big bucks at this time.  I am posting this to know the
problems/constraints which I may encounter while running BCC 3.0 on win3.1

	All comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.

	Shailesh
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