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From: peter@hokkaido.island.COM ()
Subject: 11/18 8pm: Digital's Alpha Architecture, Eric LaFranchi
Originator: peter@hokkaido
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:59:54 GMT


                        Eric M. LaFranchi
                        Software Engineer
                       DEMAX Software Inc.

                  "Digital's Alpha Architecture 
                   and Related Software Issues"

               IEEE San Francisco Computer Society
                       November 18, 1992

       San Francisco State University
       Seven Hills Guest Center  (Directions below)
       Dinner 6:45 ($20, phone 415-905-4400 for reservations)
       Social 7:30
       Talk   8:00 (no fee)
       
       
       This presentation discusses Digital Equipment Corporation's
       recently announced 64-bit Alpha RISC architecture, designed to 
       last 25 years and scale by one thousand times in performance
       over its life.  Alpha is designed so future implementations
       can realize this potential through increased chip speed,
       advances in multiple instruction issue, and multiprocessor 
       configurations.  The first implementation of the Alpha
       architecture is the 150 MHz 21064 microprocessor.

       The advances in RISC technology are no longer transparent
       to systems and user software.  Although compiler tech-
       nology has advanced considerably in the past decade,
       programmers must now consider the impact of data gran-
       ularity, data alignment, exception handling, page-size
       dependencies, and other issues to realize the maximum
       performance of these machines.  A few brief programming
       examples in C will be provided to demonstrate these concepts.

       Eric LaFranchi specializes in VAX VMS systems programming,
       including device drivers, performance tools and distributed
       storage management software.  He is co-authoring a series
       of papers on migrating VAX VMS applications to Alpha VMS,
       the first of which appears in the September/October
       issue of VAX Professional Journal.
       
                           **************************
       Directions:
         
       19th Avenue and Winston Drive (Stonestown Shopping Center).
       West on Winston Drive through the mall (tunnel under Nordstrom),
       to Lake Merced Blvd.  Left at Lake Merced and left again onto
       South State Drive.  Parking available in Lot 20 (parking garage
       on the left -- $2 for permit; buy from machine in garage).
       The SFSU Guest Center is peach and orange, with a green roof.
         
       For additional information call: (415) 905-4400.
From: gerri@cse.ucsc.edu (Gerri McLellan)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars,ucsc.baskin.general
Subject: UCSC CE/CIS Research Seminar 11/12/92
Date: 6 Nov 1992 16:18:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: ba ucsc
NNTP-Posting-Host: rio.ucsc.edu

UC Santa Cruz:		Computer & Information Sciences, and
			Computer Engineering

RESEARCH SEMINAR:	Thursday, November 12, 1992, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
			Room 330, Applied Sciences Building

Alex Orailoglu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San
Diego will speak on "High-Level Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant ICs"


Abstract:

While techniques for the design of fault-tolerant systems using existing
ICs have been well understood, tools for the automatic design of 
fault-tolerant ICs do not exist. Advances in levels of integration 
on a single chip is enabling incorporation of on-chip fault-tolerance.
With the increasing demand for high fault-tolerance in mission-critical 
applications like unmanned spacecrafts and satellites, the design of 
fault-tolerant ICs merits immediate attention.

In this talk, we develop software mechanisms for the high-level synthesis of 
fault-tolerant VLSI systems.  An interactive behavioral synthesis framework 
that provides scheduling with multiple constraints has been extended
to support scheduling for fault-tolerance. The system is powerful enough to 
allow trade-offs along multiple dimensions.

Furthermore, the high-level synthesis for fault-tolerance framework has been
used in the generation of  self-recovering microarchitectural data paths.

Self-recovery involves fault-detection followed by fault-recovery. In our 
implementation of self-recovery, faults are detected using duplication and 
comparison, while recovery is initiated via checkpointing and rollback. 
We formulate synthesis of self-recovering microarchitectures as a two-step 
procedure of checkpoint insertion followed by duplication.  The checkpoint 
insertion technique minimizes the checkpointing overhead subject to input 
constraints on maximum allowable recovery time and the maximum number of 
retries.  Additionally, checkpoint insertion is interspersed with the 
scheduling decisions of a novel edge-based scheduler.

Whereas fault-detection via duplication and comparison is effective, such a 
straightforward duplication of a flow graph will result in a proportional 
increase in hardware. Microarchitectures which perform optimally but 
require less than proportional increase in hardware are generated by applying 
transformations on a copy of the scheduled flow graph resulting from checkpoint insertion and edge-based scheduling. 

Experimental results on different examples show that (a) fault-tolerance can be supported at the behavioral level, (b) controlled interplay between rollback 
point insertion, scheduling, and transformations during high-level synthesis, 
helps synthesize area-efficient self-recovering microarchitectures, 
and (c) edge-based scheduling is an effective scheduling strategy.
From: gerri@cse.ucsc.edu (Gerri McLellan)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars,ucsc.baskin.general
Subject: UCSC CE/CIS Research Seminar 11/24/92
Date: 11 Nov 1992 17:32:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: ba ucsc
NNTP-Posting-Host: rio.ucsc.edu

UC Santa Cruz:		Computer & Information Sciences, and
			Computer Engineering

RESEARCH SEMINAR:	Tuesday, November 24, 1992, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
			Room 330, Applied Sciences Building
			Refreshments at 10:15 AM

P. Venkat Ragan, Multi-Media Laboratory, University of California, San Diego
will speak on  "Designing Multi-Media On-Demand Services in Future Integrated
Networks"

Abstract:

Future advances in networking coupled with rapid advances in storage
technologies will make it feasible to build multimedia on-demand
servers capable of providing services similar to those of a
neighborhood videotape rental store on integrated networks.
In this talk, we present techniques for continuous and synchronous
access to multimedia on-demand services. We study admission control
algorithms that permit a multimedia server to service multiple subscribers
simultaneously without violating any of their continuous media playback
requirements.  We propose a quality proportional policy that retrieves
media blocks at a rate proportional on an average to the playback rates
of media streams, but uses a staggered toggling technique by which
successive numbers of media blocks retrieved are fine-tuned individually
to admit and service an optimal number of subscribers simultaneously.

In order to ensure synchronous retrieval of multimedia objects,
we present an adaptive feedback technique in which, the media display sites
transmit light-weight messages back to the multimedia server, concurrently
with the playback of selected media units.  Using such feedback messages, the
multimedia server detects asynchronies between media display sites and
readjusts the transmission rate so as to resynchronize the
leading and lagging display sites.  We study various resynchronization
policies such as, aggressive and conservative, and compare their performance
for video/audio playback.










Xref: sparky ba.singles:2069 soc.singles:29958 alt.personals:21782 alt.romance:13735 alt.romance.chat:20377
From: tyger@netcom.com (Kristen Kohlbecker)
Newsgroups: ba.singles,soc.singles,alt.personals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:36:14 GMT
Organization: The following is all GERG'S fault!

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From: mcollins@db (Marty Collins)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Where to meet women
Date: 13 Nov 92 23:19:20 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


I believe that this cannot ever be answered completely. I myself had
an experience not too long back that blows my mind. Everybody seems
to say that if you are looking to hard for a partner you will come
off to obvious and you will fail.

I believe this to be so true.

I went to a popular Night Spot the other weekend completely oblivious
to the female surroundings. Yea I looked at some of the more attractive
women but I really wasn't paying attention at all. I was enjoying
a nice evening out with friends when WAM!!!

I was introduced to a very attractive female. I still did not think at
all about trying to hit on her or take her home. I was considerate,
interested in what she said and non-annoying. We began to flirt with
each other and one thing led to another. I was definitely turned on
by her and she was turned on by me. By the end of the night it was
obvious there was something going on between us and it was going to 
stop at the bar.

Also having two women hitting on you at the same time seems to help.
I quess the person I was introduced to felt quite intriqued by it all.

Now this may never happen again but I believe that all DOGS have their
day.


--
	   A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

   Marty Collins	       				U2 
   Product Support                                      Tryin to throw your
   NOVELL, INC.  San Jose, CA.				arms around the world.
   mcollins@novell.com   or
   Marty_Collins@SJF.Novell.COM
   1-800-NETWARE
From: mdtaylor@apple.com (Mark Taylor)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Where to meet women?
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:08:16 GMT
Followup-To: ba.singles
Distribution: ba
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <74141@apple.apple.COM>, leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick
Leech) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Nov9.215104.2308@ads.com> charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
> >I'd add, though, get out and do things for their own sake; i.e. because
> >you enjoy them.  Bored?  You've undoubtedly got some friends who do some
> >form of the popular recreational dances (ballroom, contra, square dancing).
> >Ask them how they got started.  You might find you like it, and nothing
> >is so attractive as someone who's having a good time.
> 
>     Absolutely.  Then when you've been dancing for 4 years and realize
> that no dates have resulted, you won't consider it a waste of time,
> because the activity itself is fun.
> -- 
>     Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
>     __@/

Data point:  I have two friends who met at the Cubberly Pavilion 10 months
ago and are getting married in February.

- Mark
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: "Geek Love" in Sunday's Murky News
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 92 11:34:38 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <lfar20INNer4@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov3.010437.10143@novell.com>
  <1d74unINNh31@agate.berkeley.edu>

Nathaniel wrote:
>I've heard James Joyce's wife never read any of his books and had no idea
>what he wrote about and was only concerned that they got published.  I just
>can't fathom this type of marriage.

	gawd. if i get into this academic stuff then there would be no doubt
that I am a nerd for I have to offer so many details and examples. But
suffice to say that Nora Barnacle was pretty much the backbone of joyce's
life (along with his brother Stanislaus and aunt Josephine), and she was the
inspiration for many of joyce's women characters such as Molly Bloom in Ulysses
and A.L.P in the Wake. Joyce also wrote "The Dead" (last story in Dubliners)
because partially he was obssessed with Nora Barnacle's earlier admirers who
were dead. A lot of joyce's understanding of women came from his experience
with Nora. Anyways... i think it was a beautiful marriage. (Also, there is
the theory that Nora was much of the sculpture to joyce's Pygmalion, to which
I have no comment...)
	
>
>.  If she wanted sweet romantic nothings she should
>have said something like "I wonder what they're like" or "There's the
>one I want to visit.  Which one do you want to visit?".  THEN if he
>answers literally, it'd be fair to call him a nerd.
>
	Oh that's silly! Stop analyzing things! 

	;-)

>-Nathaniel (alas, a nerd I suppose)

/bruce 
"O Trieste! Trieste ate my liver!"  - finn again
From: earl@netcom.com (Earl Vickers)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Smiles, Food, and Other Ways of Seducing Women
Date: 14 Nov 92 01:56:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

:-)

-- 
Earl Vickers		earl@netcom.com
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: How to meet women!
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:19:18 GMT

madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes:

>I love it when a guy cooks dinner for me.  It's more impressive than
>being taken out to dinner: ...

There is a book called, I believe, "Sexual Choices".  It was the
result of a survey asking women what made them decide to sleep
a man.  The result that startled the researcher was the number
of women who said that the man providing food was the key.
Not just buying dinner, but actually cooking it and serving
it up.  One woman slept with a guy who bought her a cart full
of groceries.

>None of these are sure-fire solutions; if you come on too strong, the
>best quiche in the world won't keep most women in your kitchen.  Take
>a deep breath, don't invest too much in the outcome; just enjoy the
>evening for what it is.

>We now return you to our regularly scheduled sarcasm.

Matured, have we?

-- 

Lance Norskog

Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Haloween in Castro (S.F.)
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 11:30:45 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <6787@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil> <25103@sybase.sybase.com>
  <68739@cup.portal.com>

few days ago i said something about my costume in castro, and that i had
an apple stuck in my face as part of the costume, and then i said
>
>	dont ask me how i got the apple to stick in my face... I am still 
>trying to figure out what can desolve superglue...
>
>
>/bruce

I *forgot* to put a smiley at the end of the sentence... -- like an ";-)"
i am sorry...  It was a joke... I got quite a few very helpful hints in
email telling me that nail polish would dissolve superglue quite nicely...
and I felt the need to say thanks to those who emailed me and to clarify
that what i said was intended to be a joke... I didnt use superglue. I used
a plastic picnic fork, with its handle half cutoff, and I drove the teeth of 
the fork into the apple, and i used my mouth to hold the apple in front of my
face by biting the fork handle in my mouth... i really didnt need to figure
out what would dissolve super glue, but i think i now need a speech therapist 
:-)

(I am expecting my mailbox to be flooded with suggestions as to where to find a
 
speech therapist...that'd be too funny!)

/bruce
(and thanks to those who emailed me re: nailpolish!)
From: jtteh@borland.com (J.T. Teh)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Solo Notes
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:51:17 GMT
Organization: Borland International, Inc.
Originator: jtteh@genghis.borland.com

janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM (Janice Gelb) writes:

Hello Janice, haven't seen you for a long time. How's Sun? Heard
anything from Patrice?

>Now that my volunteering for Clinton has been successfully concluded 

Congrats... I hope he and Al will do something good for our industry.

>(YAY, BUBBA!) I have some free time again and after seeing an ad in 
>the Merc, was thinking of subscribing to the Solo Notes San Jose 
>Symphony Group for Singles.  Anyone out there a current or former 
>member who can give me info or anecdotes?

Got some mailings from them some months back. Subscription is 
something like $250-300 a year. Events were like nights out
at the SJSO. The first event on the calender was for Leonid Grin
conducting. I think I threw out the mailings but I'll look.

>Thanks.

>********************************************************************************
>Janice Gelb                  | (415) 336-7075     
>janiceg@marvin.eng.sun.com   | "A silly message but mine own" (not Sun's!) 
>********************************************************************************

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J.T. Teh      Borland International Inc.     jtteh@genghis.borland.COM
                                                       MCI Mail: JTTEH

                " WILL  CODE  FOR  CAR  PAYMENTS ! "
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From: prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Where to meet women?
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:19:02 GMT
Reply-To: prem@prem.lbl.gov (R. Shirdi Prem)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.140.191

In article <1ds3liINN995@morrow.stanford.edu> HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt) writes:
>
> You can do the same thing with a dog, then there will be two of you!

	yeah.....and both looking for a bitch ??  :-)
	sorry, couldn't resist....
From: mdtaylor@apple.com (Mark Taylor)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: "Geek Love" in Sunday's Murky News
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:48:54 GMT
Followup-To: ba.singles
Distribution: ba
Organization: Apple Computer

In article <1d9nb6INNn6@agate.berkeley.edu>, c60b-2hz@e260-1c.berkeley.edu
(Nathaniel Meyers) wrote:
> BUT if she had said "How I wonder what they are?" rather than "I wonder
> what they are?" I think her intention what have been clearer.

Oh, good grief.
From: HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Where to meet women?
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:06:26 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <1992Nov11.015417.11404@netcom.com>,
kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe) writes:
>
>One of friends does something I haven't tried:
>borrow someone's baby (like your sister's) and
>go for a walk in the park or on the beach.
>My friend said that babies attract women like
>magnets.
>--
>"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
>they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692.
>Thomas David Kehoe          kehoe@netcom.com         (408) 354-5926


 You can do the same thing with a dog, then there will be two of you!
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: How to meet women!
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:54:59 GMT
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus

In article <1992Nov10.191933.29147@netcom.com> madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes:
>
>I love it when a guy cooks dinner for me.  It's more impressive than
>being taken out to dinner: it shows he has a creative side, and doesn't
>have any macho hangups about cooking being a woman's domain.  This only
>works if you are a decent cook, of course.  I dated one fellow who
>cooked dinner for me several Mondays in a row.  It worked.

Addendum: you may find that this works better if you suggest that the
two of you cook dinner together.  Less pressure in some ways, and it's
an easy way to test whether the two of you can come to a decision
together.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
From: stuczyns@presto.ig.com (Martin Stuczynski)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: These women know how to train big dumb aniamals
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:23:23 GMT
Organization: IntelliGenetics Inc., Mtn. View, Ca.

In article <92307.45942.L630614@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>, L630614@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
> Plus these women know how to train big dumb anamials
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
> Path: iscnvx!netcomsv!decwrl!ames!olivea!sgigate!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!europa.
> From: allied@sco.COM (Allie D.)
> Newsgroups: ba.singles
> Subject: meeting women
> Summary: I'm serious
> Message-ID: <1992Oct29.220128.9567@sco.com>
> Date: 29 Oct 92 22:01:28 GMT
> Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
> Distribution: ba.singles
> Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
> Lines: 29
> 
> 
> 
> 	If you're a man and truely would like to meet women (and are willing
> to put out a little effort) I seriously recommend you take horseback riding
> lessons, english style to be exact.  I am a woman (married now), but I've
> been involved with jumping horses, and taking lessons in riding academies
> for years and there is a definite lack of male participation.  I took a
> male friend of mine riding one afternoon and he almost gave himself whiplash
> trying to take in all the women in one encompassing glance--good luck,




What is it about bouncing up and down, spread eagled for hours on a
large, warm 2,000 lb. animal that appeals more to women than
m...................oh, forget it.


-MArty
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: eager@eagercon.com (Michael J. Eager)
Subject: Re: "Geek Love" in Sunday's Murky News
Reply-To: eager@eagercon.com
Organization: Eager Consulting
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:12:27 GMT

In article 1d74unINNh31@agate.berkeley.edu, c60b-2hz@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Nathaniel Meyers) writes:
>
>About the constellation anecdote:  It never would have occured to me that
>naming the constellations wasn't the expected response.  Star names ARE
>interesting and it's romantic to have a name to something unobtainable.

Well, it isn't naming the constellations that is the problem.  It is ONLY
naming the constellations.  

Depending on the circumstances, the appropriate thing to do is say something 
like "let's sit down here where we can get a clear view of the sky."  And to
better point out the Pleadies, which are really very pretty and a bit difficult
to find, you can put your arm around your companion and guide her eye to the right 
stars.  And this leads to some more touching and in a short while, perhaps,
the conversation moves away from Orion and whatever it is hanging around his 
belt and on to more personal things, perhaps with her head on your shoulder.  

Or you can just talk about how Betelguese is a main sequence giant red which
will burn out in oh so few years, while a white dwarf will ... well you get 
the picture.

---
Michael J. Eager		Michael.Eager@eagercon.com
Eager Consulting		(415) 325-8077 
1960 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, CA 94306-1141