HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
Subject: Sydnes is gone?!!  Re: More information on CDTVV
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 07:57:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug9.225313.18967@ctr.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>	I have gotten some more specific information regarding
>what happened. Apparently, only one person in the engineering
>department was laid off -- that was Bill Sydnes, VP in charge of
>Engineering. This would mean that the people working on CDTV are
>not gone, although some may have been reassigned.


Sydnes is same person making promise of many NEW Amigas next
month!!  If Mehdi fired Syndes then C= will not keep promise?
Many people on BBS said 20-30 more of C= crew thrown overboard!!!
WHY C= keeping secrets from friendly internet?!?

C= MUST TELL TRUTH or 60 Minutes crew will be called!!
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 040 3000T !!
Keywords: A3000-T-040 A3640
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:59:27 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

haley@unixg.ubc.ca (Ross MacGregor) writes:
>In <kdarling.714031609@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>>jamesp@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (James Pickering) writes:
>>>Why is it the A3640 only works in a 3000T? The 3000T is almost
>>>impossible to get down here in Australia, so most people have 3000's
>>>only. Is the problem only a matter of space or of power?
>
>>Could be both.  But an Amiga dealer on CIS said that one problem was
>>with needed physical clearance for a heatsink.
>
>Could this be true?  Commodore not following it's own specs?
>After all the criticism of the Toaster!  The engineers must be
>pulling their hair out over this one, if TRUE i MUST qualify (I don't
>want to be blamed for any nasty roomers :-).

Well, it is somewhat true.  To fully work within specs, the heat of the
68040 must be taken care of.  When the original design was made for the
A3000, the space for the CPU area was enough for the 3Watts that a 68040
was supposed to burn.  It turns out that this number was low and the real
power usage is somewhere around 7Watts.  Now, to get this to work correctly,
(within specs, since we do not do things outside of specs such as run a
25MHz part at 28MHz, etc) the head sink had to have certain properties.
Maybe future heat sink designs can make this board fit, but currently the
heat sink required is a bit too large to fit within the A3000 case work.

This is why the board is only being sold for the A3000T.  Now, if technology
can solve either the power used or the heat sink size problems, I would think
that it would be possible to make such a board to fit the A3000.  (Note that
I do not know if there would be a marketing push for such a beast if it were
to become available...)

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From: stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Re: Unix lha
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:17:02 GMT

>    I'm sure there was talk about there being a lha program available for UNIX,
>but I don't remember where it was located.  I would greatly appreciate any help

ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.112.31]
/pub/archiver/lha-1.00.tar.Z

	Stefan

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FIDO  : 2:242/7.6, Stefan_Becker@mowgli.fido.de	     \XX/  -->A3000/25<--
From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  AA Chip set
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:49:00 EDT
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <jbono.02jv@tension.UUCP> jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
>How did they screw A1000 owners?  By giving them a $1k discount on the A2000
>when it was introduced so they wouldn't be out in the cold?  By giving them
>another $1k discount on an A3000 just by showing up with the first page from
>the manual when the 3000 was introduced?  By testing 2.04 on an A1000 even

   Get real!  The discount was $1000 off the list price, which was
considerably higher than what most dealers were charging.  It was nice of
Commodore to offer the discount at all, but let's not inflate its value just
because Commodore's advertising did.

--Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:27:56 GMT

In article <jbellanc.046i@pdrome.UUCP> jbellanc@pdrome.UUCP (James Bellanca) writes:
>Hogwash, eh?  Read the new issue of AmigaNews that details the A400, A100+ (or
>whatever it's going to be called) an dthe new "AA" chipset.  They either broke
>NDA or got permission from the VP of C/A (mor elikely)...Anyway, they printed
>the whole story..just got the issue in the mail today..look awesome!

One flaw in this reasoning is that the article is word for word a reprint of
the message that started all this on usenet, Fidonet, Amiganet, gossipnet,
etc.  If the original message were hogwash, putting it in print doesn't
make it suddenly true.

-- 

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NCR -- Torrey Pines Development Center | Jeffrey.Grimmett@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
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From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:13:01 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

> 	Thanks to all who e-mailed this advice as well.  My df0: that
> originally came with the machine is a HD drive, though the df1: is not.

Only one HD drive per machine for know and it has to be df0: anyway.
I'd say most people will be excited to get even one.

> 
> 	- Kyle
> 
-- 
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James Miller

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From: glweid@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gary.l.weideman)
Subject: Can't backup Miracle Disks
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:19:26 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: error:212


This may be a stupid question but I cannot make backup copies of
the disks that came with my Miracle Keyboard. They are not copy protected
according to Software Toolworks. When I try to back them up using Workbench
I get "error:212". Using the diskcopy command from the CLI
does not work either. Any suggestions ??

G.L. Weideman
From: Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk (Hmmm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FTP Guru needed
Date: 17 Aug 92 07:55:03 GMT
Organization: Shabby


All you lucky people with access to OPEN WINDOWS (Suns + other
Unix workstations) should try FTPTOOL.

It's a wonderful front-end to FTP.
 
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From: ajahn@digi.lonestar.org (Alfredo Jahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Display Problems - HELP!
Keywords: screen garbage
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:05:22 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.

This problem seems to be getting worse and worse... When I draw
a line (using several different applications) I get scattered
lines on the rest of the screen. It looks like the computer 
thinks the spot to draw the line is somewhere else on the screen.
 
I have a 2000 with 5 meg of ram (2 meg on an original C= board,
2 meg on a GVP SCSI controller (older model) and 1 meg on the
mother board). Is it one of my custom chips? I installed the new
Agnus and Denise about 6 months ago and it all seemed to work
back then...  Is there any PD diagnostic programs that I can 
run myself on the machine? I plan to check to make sure all the
chips and boards are plugged in all the way - maybe that will
fix things. 

I keep my 2000 on its side under my desk (is that a problem?)
I've had it that way for 2-3 years without any problems.

Please e-mail responses (I don't always get the time to scan
the news groups).  Thanks in advance.

 - alfredo jahn V



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From: blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Partition Confusion
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:30:55 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Ok, here's the situation:

I wanted to remove my AMAX partition from my HD and use my full 52 megs
for AmigaDOS. So, I backed up my AmigaDOS partition and went to reformat
the drive without the AMAX partition. I was using TCUtils 2.0, which comes
with IVS controllers (I have a Trumpcard 500 AT).  Now, after I was done,
and some confusion, I realized that I somehow ended up with a drive
that had two partitions: dh0: was 475k and dh1: was 48 megs. Both were
named 'EVE' which is what my original name for my AmigaDOS partition was.
Now, I figured out a way around the computer's confusion by dismounting DH0:
and then reassigning it to DH1: and dismounting EVE:, thereby leaving the
48M Eve but eliminating the 475k Eve. Sound confusing?

Well, as far as I can tell this all seems to work just fine, and I'd rather,
for the time being, lose however much HD space I effectively have lost than
reformat the drive and restore it again.  So, here are my two questions:

1) Is there any compelling reason anyone thinks I should reformat an
rebackup;i.e. some reason not to stick with this semi-kludge but functioning
setup that I haven't thought of.

2) Is there any way to redefine partition parameters and/or device names
without reformatting the drive?  I imagine it could be done with a sector
editor, and I've heard the term Rigid Disk Blocks bandied about in reference
to this, but that's all I know.  Any ideas?

Thanks all --

Aaron
From: roberts@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Robert Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AA Chip set
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:10:38 GMT
Organization: Genasys II, Sydney, Australia

In article <phil.714014778@adam.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
>jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
>
>>How did they screw A1000 owners?  By giving them a $1k discount on the A2000
>>when it was introduced so they wouldn't be out in the cold?  By giving them
>>another $1k discount on an A3000 just by showing up with the first page from
>>the manual when the 3000 was introduced?
>
>[ More ranting deleted ]
>
>You seem to forget that not everyone lives in the U.S.A.  Over here in
>Australia we get effectively *no* support from C=.  There are *no* powerup
>programs or anything like it.
>
>Yes I would say that C= screwed A1000 owners badly.

While I would agree that C= (Aus) didn't go out of its way to encourage
existing Amiga users to upgrade, prices still compare pretty favourably
with those in the U.S. (or they did last time I looked).  The 2000 can
be had now for around $990, and the 3000 for $2800.  These are good
value for everyone by my reckoning.

Despite having paid top dollar for my 1000, I have always been happy
with value for money as I upgraded.  Actually, I've never _upgraded_ ...
both machines that I might have traded in got stolen.  I suppose that
boosts C='s turnover :-(

I wouldn't buy Amigas if they weren't interesting.  Cheap and boring
suits some people.  I'm willing to pay for interest value.  How many
people _need_ the power of an A3000 (or a '386 let alone '486)?
Contrast with the number that have them.

>Phil
>A1000 owner since 1987.
>
>-- 
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>  /     \   Departmental Engineer       Phone:  +61 8 228 5914
>  \_.-*_/   Dept. of Psychology         Fax:    +61 8 224 0464
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Robert
A1000 owner in '86.
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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:54:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug18.205412.912
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

Well, actually Kelvin... there IS no Marc Barrett.  Rumor has it that the
individual claiming to be MB is really Jack Tramiel in elecronic drag.  ;-)



                -=- Ed


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From: kimski+@CMU.EDU (Sun Kun Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: ED. DISCOUNT PRICE LIST
Date: 22 Aug 92 08:55:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.EeZb5re00aw30E3lMU
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Anyone have any of the NEW or recent educational discount price ilst?? 
I am interested in the A3000 but being a college student, my budget IS
limited.  Does Commodore still have the Educational Discount program?? 
I am not sure.  If someone could help me out here, I would be very
grateful!

                                       Alex...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ry53@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Angela Schmidt)
Subject: Serial Numbers (WAS: Re: WARNING!!  Pirated escaped Directory Opus...)
Reply-To: Angela@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Organization: Nessyhoehle@I501.NessyNet.de	
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:03:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.184120.10018@nmsu.edu>, pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes:
|>    My suggestion would be just that, but do it so that no one knew about the
|>    serial number but yourself; ie, any time your program shows a serial number,
|>    the natural tendancy of someone spreading illegal copies is to find that
|>    number and change it.  Now we have a new problem...
|> 
|>    Instead of advertising that serial number, have it in there, but only in
|>    such a way know to your (the programmer) self.  Or am I reinventing the
|>    wheel, here?  :)

As soon as two betatesters compare their programs, they'll find the
serial number. To avoid this problem, I'ld suggest to link all the
object files in a differant order. You might use randomize (serialnumber) 
to calculate the random order.

I think, when you do _this_, you even can advertise the serial number.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:59:18 -0400 
From: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: John Campbell's replys to assertions that AmigaVision is dead.
	<34495@cbmvax.commodore.com>

> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.misc: 19-Aug-92 Re: CDTV is dead.
> John Campbell - CATS@cbm (633)

> The new version will have much more than a standalone player, and we will
> announce those new features on comp.sys.amiga.multimedia in the middle of
> September.

> >| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu

> John Campbell
> Director, Commodore Applications and Technical Support


Three cheers for John Campbell, for his greatly appreciated efforts to
keep users informed.
And maybe half a cheer for Barrett, for apparently having precipitated
the post :-)  [well... it *is* quoted].

MIchael
Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 1992 13:50:09 TUR
From: <E66821@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject:    Demo sites ..


    I am looking for sites which are serious about demos. I know wuarchive
    is the best but it is not sufficient.. and Amiga.physik is anxious
    about its disk space and deletes them quickly.. also ftp.ludd deleted
    theirs recently. So are there other sites which I Ignore?
    Thanks ..

    Alp
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: JAM info on A570 & A2200/A2400 (public info!)
Date: 15 Aug 92 05:21:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug14.222143.770
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > An '020 is about 75% of the speed of an '030.

Then the 020 should work well as a basic system processor in place of the
68000.  although the 68k is a good chip, its day as a main system cpu have
pretty well come and gone.  The demands of large complicated programs and
operating systems pretty well demand more than a 0.8 mip processor, IMHO.
Hopefully, a 20-25 MHz 020 might just be the thing that adds a lot of bang
for the buck to the Amiga starter systems.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Subject: Re: csh 5.19 and LS 4.5 ljr
Originator: rbm2273@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:05:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.154621.5469@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle) writes:
>In article <1992Aug15.061941.21435@ccu.umanitoba.ca> kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
>>I am having a slight difficulty here.  In shell-startup I have
>>
>>	;file exe
>>	set ls_highlight-5.on ""
>>	set ls_highlight-5.off *
>>	;dir
>>	set ls_highlight2.on  ""
>>	set ls_highlight2.off /
>>
>>which mostly works.  Unfortunately, if I use Ls, the curser color is lost. (set
>>to background)  Works fine in the C= shell, but not with CSH.  (I am using %c
>>in my csh prompt)
>
>Bug in csh (confirmed by WSH and C=).  The shell must Flush() Output,
>C='s shell always has, WShell always has.  Many other 3rd party shells
>do/did not...  I reported this problem to csh and sksh authors.
>
>The workaround if you have SAS/C is to add the following line in
>the cleanup code and recompile:
>
>Flush (Output ());
>
>Regards,
>Loren, author of ls-4.5ljr

I haven't followed the entire thread.  Sorry if this is a duplicate.

PDKSH also supports this feature!!  Cursor is gone after 'ls' cmnd.

Regards.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Subject: SAS/C 6.0
Reply-To: mueller@math.wisc.edu
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 15:49:35 GMT

Has anyone gotten any information from SAS about this product?  I saw their
ad in Amazing Computing and in Amiga World.  This prompted me to write to
them requesting info, but I was surprised that I didn't get anything from
them directly.  I am a registered user of 5.10 and am interested in getting
the upgrade.  Does anyone know the price?  (I haven't heard back from them
yet.)  Did anyone hear from them yet?

                                    Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: AWK Found!  ff406.  Japanese review not moderated yet, sorry...
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:32:53 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Aug20.165644.42466@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> It's good to see that perl's getting so far, but is there an awk
> release floating around somewhere?

Well if anyone else was wondering it can be found on disk number 406
of the wonderful fred fish collection.  Thanks for the replies guys.

_osore irimasuga..._

BTW, the moderator for comp.sys.amiga.reviews hasn't replied to my
mail or posted the Japanese system review yet but I'm sure he's
swamped so everyone that keeps writing hold on to your britches for a
little longer or e-mail me for a chat.  I don't want to have to
rewrite the review and see the old one posted the next day but I'll
give you some genereal info if anyone needs it until the review gets
posted. 
-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

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