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From: cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham)
Subject: Re: Video card/Monitor incompatable???
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:53:52 GMT

In <Bx99pq.HAF@cs.psu.edu> mllang@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Matthew Lang) writes:

>Hi, I'm having a problem with my video that's driving me crazy.  I have a 
>SVGA card (True color) based on Cirrus GD-5422 chip and a Packard Bell
>1024x768 monitor (non-interlaced).  The problem is that the picture shifts on
>my screen when I switch video modes.  Some examples:
>640x480 -- looks fine
>800x600x64k -- Picture is shifted to the right, off the screen
>800x600x256 -- picture is centered but really small (half-size)
>etc.
>I had this problem before so the company said I could try a new video card and
>this is what I got.  About the same result as before (This is my second card
>and my second monitor, same problems)  The manufacturer (WANG -- about the 
>worst service I have ever received said "It's an incompatability between your
>monitor and the card).  I still find this hard to believe.  Can anyone help???
>I would appreciate any ideas!!!!
>Matt 

Hi.
	This is a very common problem, although it is still usable
normally.   I got a program with my Trident card that allows the
position (and size) of each individual screen mode to be set and stored
in a device driver so that the settings are loaded when the computer
boots.  I don't know if something like this exists for that card though.

Mark Cosham
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From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:45:27 GMT
Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

fred j mccall writes:
>
>Unless, of course, it's the only way to get decent performance out of
>Windows/NT or Windows 4.0.  Hey, when the 386-25 came out I remember
>hearing the same sorts of things.  "Hey, nobody needs that much
>computer on their desktop!"  Well, surprise.  If the hardware exists,
>someone will make software that soaks up the performance.

True, this used to be said about 4K Z80 computers, etc.  But look
at the performance jump from such a machine to a 50 MHz 486 with
8 megabytes of RAM.  You actually can do quite a lot with a Z80.
Now think about what the 486 is capable of.  There are very few
people who need that sort of power.  It is mostly a marketing thing;
if, say, Geos was in the position that Windows is then people
wouldn't be so desperate for 486s.  A well-designed machine with
properly balanced subsystems would be preferrable to a lackluster
box with a screamingly fast CPU.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: "peter tindall" <peter.tindall@canrem.com>
Subject: .qag extension?
Reply-To: "peter tindall" <peter.tindall@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:15:58 EST



  dfraser@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu in <1992Nov8.020802.2796@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
  writes:

DI> Does anyone know what the .qag extension is for?  I found several files in my
DI>windows directory with this extension that seem to be named after my different
DI>program groups(like main.qag).  These type of files appeared on my Uncle's
DI>system before a virus wiped out his drive.
DI>Are they supposed to be there or could they be a part of a virus?


These are quick access group files - generated and used by Norton Desktop for
Windows. You are correct - they duplicate the existing groups at creation
time - also any setup programs that add groups/items will affect them.

If you are not using NDW's Quick Access functions - then you can delete these
files - they will be recreated next time you select Quick Access from the
NDW menu.

Regards,


Peter

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From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Significant price rise on RAM?
Keywords: RAM, tariff
Date: 11 Nov 92 06:44:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov11.064416.263
Reply-To: rseymour@reed.edu
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <4690045@pollux.svale.hp.com> dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)  
writes:
> >(Wilfred Wong) 
> >    Since no duties are currently being collected, the question
> >that should be answered is what's the cause of the current price
> >increase. Has the Korean manufacturers increased their prices or
> >are US distribution channels taking advantage of the situation
> >by increasing their prices?
> 
> There are two ways to price goods, purchase cost + margin or replacement
> cost + margin. When the two costs are the same the two methods are
> the same. When you know that there will be a price rise then
> replacement cost is the only way to go. Otherwise you may not
> make enough money to buy any replacement for the existing
> inventory you sell.
> 
> 			   Danny Low
>     "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
> 	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
> 	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com

	In a word: speculation. DRAM is a commodities market, and the supply  
just became more expensive (at least most of it). As the computer industry  
expands, the demand continues to increase. Let's just hope we don't get the  
same problem as with the Japanese in the mid/late 80s, where low pacific rim  
prices drove U.S. manufacturers out of business and then the courts took away  
the supply of chips from the pacific rim. We were left with no chips and no  
manufacturers (it took many years to get the supply back, let alone the prices  
down). Good ol' American trade relations continue...

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From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:55:18 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <Bx9ME2.H40@voder.nsc.com>, pad@galaxy.nsc.com (Paul Denny x8349) writes:
> I am looking into assembling a 486 machine and my
> research so far has raised a few questions which I
> was hoping may be resolvable through the net.
> 
> As a starter I note that caching disc controllers
> are supposed to increase the speed of disc intensive
> applications but a salesman I spoke to 8^) claimed
> that these are flakey designs as a single bad bit
> can propogate through your data and corrupt it. He
> suggested additional system RAM and partition it
> in DOS to have a large cache area. Can anyone verify
> or debunk this and provide an explanation?
> 
> Many thanks - Paul

I use a hardware cache in my IDE hard drive with no problems. However, the 
Computer Shopper ran tests comparing various caching controllers with 
software (RAM) caches and their surprising results were that in most cases 
the software caches were faster! When they compared the relativey high 
cost of a caching controller with the (then) low cost of RAM it made a 
pretty good argument for spending less and getting more.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott)
Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
Keywords: prices          
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 05:49:03 GMT

>
>I hope the 586 comes out soon so I can get my 486/DX2-66 at a lower price :)
>---------------------------------------------------------
> Louis J. Giliberto, Jr.   ! magus@drktowr.chi.il.us
>   -sysadmin drktowr       ! lgilibe@orion.it.luc.edu
>  Chicago, IL  USA         ! 
>---------------------------------------------------------

After watching the market trend, I have the funniest feeling that
everything has about hit rock bottom. A lot of people keep saying 
that the introduction of the i586 is going to severely cut the
prices of both the 386 and 486 machines. Although it might drop
the prices at first, I don't see why it is going to cut them so
much. People are in business to make money; if the computer 
markets keep dropping the way they are now, no money is to be 
made. Don't get me wrong, I'm in the purchasing stage myself, and 
the lower they get in price, the better. My biggest fear is that
if I wait too long, some unseen factor (ie trade embargo, stock
market fluctuations, aliens landing in Sunnyvale CA., etc)
will cause prices to go back up. 

Anyone got any suggestions on what prices are going to do over the
next 6 months to a year?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: WALDER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Walder Matthias)
Subject: NEEDED: printer driver (windows) for calcomp plot master
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:15:10 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Dear fellows,

we use the calcomp plot master II since some years and need a printer
driver (windows 3.1) due to testing reasons.

Do you know a ftp-site or another way where we can get it?

Thanks.... M. Walder
From: bilimoria@inland.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: THESAURUS Program for Word Processing
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:49:39 CST
Organization: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, IN

Can anyone recommend a GOOD Thesaurus program for use with word processing
software (maybe a TSR)?  The ones that come included with WPs are not very
good. Would appreciate any advice/info.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: More Ram = Faster machine
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:18:55 GMT

In <Bx6qC1.9xI@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg021@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Micky J.) writes:


>I recently upgraded my 25Mhz 386 from 2MB to 4MB, using 3-chip SIMMS
>(it now has four 3-chip SIMMS).

>Why, according to two seperate programs, has my machine slightly increased
>in speed? One used to say my machine was 22Mhz, now it says it's 30Mhz
>(a program simply called 'speed'). Another only says a slight increase
>in speed, about 1Mhz.

Your machine may use memory interleave to cut down on wait states for
memory access.  Having an even number of banks of chips speeds this
up. 

>Also, I think there's a problem with my graphics card (was there before
>I upgraded the memory). I cannot use Windows 3.1 because when I move a
>windows, it leaves a block border behind. The fonts also mess up sometimes,
>and drop-down menus sometimes leave bits behind etc. On some games, there
>are black pixels randomly placed around the screen. If I slow my machine
>down to 8Mhz, then the problem is less, i.e. less corruption occurs.

>Its a 256K ZIDA VGA card. Is it the memory on the card?

Sounds like it's either a driver problem or the board itself isn't
quite compatible on the register level with what it is supposed to be.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Is PCTOOLS 8.0 worth the upgrade?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:02:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63519.student.cwru.edu

The header says it all. Is it worth the money to upgrade to 8.0 from 7.1? 
What new features are there? Bug fixes?

Thanks!
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From: sba@garnet.berkeley.edu (School of Business Administration)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: AutoCAD release 12 loaner needed URGENTLY!!!!
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:18:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

Newsgroups: ucb.general,ucb.cs.msgs,ucb.wanted,comp.sys.ibm-pc.software
Subject: AutoCAD release 12 loaner needed URGENTLY!!!!!!
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Keywords: AutoCAD URGENT 

We very very urgently need a loaner copy of AutoCAD release 12.

We received some drawings on release 12, and our current version is release 10.
Our software connection has back ordered release 12, but we need it before 
they can get it to us.

If you can't lend us your copy, we need to AT LEAST be able to hard copy the
drawings to printer or plotter so that we can re-import it or re-draw it 
into our version 10 temporarily.

Any help you can offer as soon as possible would be great!!!

Please contact us either at:

	this account (sba@garnet.berkeley.edu)
	Richard Henderson (Richard@haas.berkeley.edu)
or	Mike Smith (MikeS@haas.berkeley.edu)

Thanks so much!!

-rob

sba@garnet
From: tomw@orac.asd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Parity error - HALT - a better NMI handler?
Date: 5 Nov 92 02:26:55
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
Reply-To: tomw@asd.sgi.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: orac.asd.sgi.com
In-reply-to: chuck.colford@synapse.org's message of 3 Nov 92 22:18:00 GMT

In article <3132.2404.uupcb@synapse.org>, chuck.colford@synapse.org (Chuck Colford) writes:

> Alas; I am not alone.  I am plagued by the occasional parity error too.
> Chris Granitz recently recanted his story & it sounds all too familier.
> I'm a H/W engineer, so I've gone through most of what I can check (mem
> speeds, cache data/tag ram speeds, bus speeds, looked for "pushed
> parts", etc).  Still they persist, but I hate to turn off checking.

> Speeds of 33 MHz and up are challenging & require good design & layout
> practice.  Perhaps all the clone designs do not all allow adequate
> margins.

I've found that most of the time parity errors are caused by
mis-configured memory management software.  QEMM is especially prone to
this problem.  If you fiddle around with then memory regions you use for
high memory, it usually fixes the problem.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:39:58 GMT

>Remeber that the 2 or 3 opcodes that are different between a 386+387 and a 
>486 are for MULTITASKING OPERATING SYSTEMS, and MULTIPROCESSOR support. 
>Therefore, it kind of makes sence for a new 32bit operating system (
>NeXTSTEP) to require an i486 processor.  Windows NT, by the way, requres a 
>386-25 or grater, not a 486.
>    _________________________________________________________________

How much difference(ie-improvement) do these 2 or 3 opcodes make in a
multitasking operating system?  How much better would an OS like OS/2
be if it required a 486SX instead of 386SX?

Finally, how can NT require a 386-25 or greater?  Can't an OS just
require either a 386SX & up, 386+387+up, 486SX+up, 486DX+up?

Does MS just recommend a 386DX-25 as the absolute minimum?

Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,rec.music.synth
From: cwilliam@dunned.socal.com (Chris Williams)
Subject: Portable/Notebook with ISA Expansion Card Slots
Organization: Dunn-Edwards Corp. - Los Angeles, CA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:47:59 GMT

I'm in the market for a portable or notebook that has ISA (standard PC) 
expansion slots. I've read reviews of a few units that have 
"docking stations", but I need the cards to be portable. (This is for
a MIDI application.) I was hoping to find a minimal 386 system < $2000.

Any recomendations?

-Chris
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From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:47:45 GMT
Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

Scott Wilken writes:
>
>Now that statement I dont agree with.   If programmers refused to take
>advantage of the technology available to them, they are dooming us, the
>users.  Of course those of us who own 386's may be left in the cold
>on rare occasions, but its worth it in my mind.

Programming is programming and it hasn't changed radically in a long
time.  Through all structured programming, OOP, etc. crazes, programming
is still something which requires careful thought and design.  IMO
speed is being looked upon as a replacement for these things.

The "not fast enough" excuse seems to be a way of venting frustration
over poorly designed software.  Whenever something is slow or overly
complex, people always are quick to look to the next generation of
technology for a solution.

>What would have happened if all programs continued to run on an 8088
>based machine?  I dont think we would be seeing a windows nt...

Look at MS-DOS command.com.  That clunker was on the market for
eight years, with the world's biggest software force behind it.  Then
along comes little JP Software and they completely blew it out of the
water with a two man development team.  And Berkely Softworks hasn't
entirely surpassed Windows with PC/Geos, but they have outdone it
in many ways including true pre-emptive multitasking.  Not to mention
that it runs faster on an 8088 than Windows on a 20/MHz 386 (at least
in terms of user perception).

IMO the PC hardware industry is being driven by the output of
a handful of software companies.  This cannot be a good thing.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.archives
From: robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Macafee, CCP trouble
Keywords: Boot protection security password
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:43:15 GMT


I installed MacAffee's CCP 1.0b the other day, finding that entering some
phoney passwords at bootup about 3 times continued the boot process, even
if none of the entred passwords were correct.

I mailed this to c.b.i.p.archives, and Timo forwarded this to MacAffee.
The next day I got a reply from some guy associated with MacAffee, who
claimed he had forwarded my complain mail to the proper people.  I haven't
heard anything more in 3 weeks, and would like to hear if anyone has got
CCP to work correctly.

Robert
From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 Beta
Keywords: stacker
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:21:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: PA.1992Nov11.012125.4538
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA


In article <4219@novavax.UUCP>, grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol) writes:

> Not sure the official release date of this, but look for it
> soon, as this copy was stable as a table!

I got my upgrade notice in the mail over the weekend!

- Jim

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From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: PC Tools 8.0-No Windows apps!
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 09:26:01 +1200

In <1992Nov12.041037.9386@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>This week's infoworld said that the beta of PC Tools for windows will
>be demo'ed at COMDEX. The article said that the new product is 75%
>what you get from the windows tools in 7.1, and 25% new stuff. Some of
>the functionality they mention you can already get from things like
>bigdesk and top desk.

If anyone sees it or hears anymore about it please post...

Thanks,
Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sknkwrks@mayall.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: 06 Nov 92 17:53:34 GMT

In article <2212@oss1.abg.psi.DE> lonews@.abg (lonews) writes:
>sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>>However, the formatting process freezes early on whenever you try to
>>put more than the usual 15 sectors per track on a disk.  (Yes, I am
>>using real high-density disks.)
>[deleted]
>>It freezes on track 79, head 1...it keeps trying to format and never
>>tries to verify and move on to the next (previous) track.  Anybody
>>have a clue as to why this happens?
>
>Did you load the FDREAD-TSR from the FDFORMAT-Package ??

Yes...the TSR is already loaded.

Somebody mentioned problems with v1.8 that caused him to go back to
v1.6...maybe there's a bug in v1.8.  (Gonna have to look for an older
version...)

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