HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Christopher Vickery)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: email address needed for Anthony Chen, NCKU, Taiwan
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:11:28 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Anthony Chen posted an item to this newsgroup recently and
also sent me email on the topic of iRMX for Windows.  I
am unable to reply to his email.  Does anyone (Tony, for
example) have a proper email address for him?
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Flushing, NY 11367-0904  vickery@ipc1.cs.qc.edu (718)997-3500
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
From: prevost@westford.ccur.com (Michael J. Prevost (CCC))
Subject: Anyone Familiar with RTAP
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.  Westford, MA
Distribution: comp.realtime
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:09:26 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.realtime
From: wheelerd@tt.com (David Wheeler)
Subject: Re: novel idea?
Organization: Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown MD
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:46:11 GMT

>In article <erempel.726720401@sol.UVic.CA> erempel@sol.UVic.CA (Evan Rempel) writes:
>I haven't read very much in the realtime environment, but I have
>a thought about an OS that has what I think is a fairly unique
>idea.
>
>I am looking for an OS (real time obviously) that has the
>ability to swap a task from one cpu to another. This is merely
>a multiprocessing system. The catch is that I want to be
>able to mix cpu's. Say a 68040 as the general, but then a i860
>running on the side for complex graphics. If the i860 becomes
>bogged down (I don't know what I would be doing to bog down the
>i860, but lets say I do) and the 68040 is sitting idle (or close
>to it) can one of the tasks that is running on the i860 be switched
>over to the 68040 to run there.
>
>I know that the single task on the 040 would run slower than on the
>i860, but if the i860 was bogged down, the net result would
>be a system speedup.
>
>Is there any system out there that provides this type of
>functionality?
>
>

As a few people have already stated, the difference in machine
languages means this won't work in a straight-forward way.  It may be
possible to design such a multi-processor with a special compiler that
knows what types of processors are in the system and at run-time can
stop the execution on one machine and start it on the other with an
appropriate context to continue the processing.  I'm pretty sure
nobody has done this before and with all the problems designing
compilers for homogeneous multiprocessors, it will probably be a long
time before anybody does.



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Telecommunications Techniques Corporation  |  E-mail to/from Usenet/Internet
Germantown, Maryland                       |  to the French Minitel system?
From: mwj@se17.wg2.waii.com (Mike Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: VMEbus
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:48:59 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Expoloration Products

I've got a technical writer asking me what the VME in VMEbus stands for. I suppose it's an acronym for something, but nobody here knows what. The VMEbus specification we have doesn't give this information either. Anybody know?
From: ah442@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Erik C. Orange)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Seeking a Real-Time Consultant
Date: 6 Jan 1993 04:36:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


We are interested in seeking a software consultant who has
experience in designing real-time systems for process control
applications.  Experience is preferable in VxWorks or Lynx.

Background:  We are in the process of designing several different
process control systems (each can be considered a "small"
application).  We have software engineering expertise internally, but
we'd like to seek the experience of someone who has implemented
real-time systems using the aforementioned operating systems.

If anyone knows of an individual or firm that specializes in this
field , preferably in the Cleveland, OH area, then we'd like to hear
about it.  Please e-mail replies.

Thanks in advance!

Erik
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Erik C. Orange                            FRD Industrial Automation
Computer Engineering                      Avery-Dennison Corporation
ah442@cleveland.Freenet.Edu               Concord, OH
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
From: hsmith@world.std.com (heath smith)
Subject: Re: What's wrong with DOS in real-time?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:44:00 GMT

For a good real-time multi-tasking system use InterWork by Block Island
Technologies (See programmers paradise, ect). It provides the
multi-tasking kernel as a .LIB and let's you create as many real-time
tasks as you wish. Hook up to the real-time clock interrupt for very small
time quantums.

I have used it for over a year, and it delivers. One thing, you don't get
any fancy windowing libraries, you will have to buy those...

Newsgroups: comp.realtime
From: eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan)
Subject: Re: novel idea?
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:13:54 GMT

In article <C0onL4.2qE@newcastle.ac.uk>, Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth) writes:
> eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
> 
>>In article <erempel.726720401@sol.UVic.CA>, erempel@sol.UVic.CA (Evan Rempel) writes:
>>> 
>>> I know that the single task on the 040 would run slower than on the
>>> i860, but if the i860 was bogged down, the net result would
>>> be a system speedup.
> 
>>You must be joking.  The machine languages of these two processors
>>are totally different.  Would you plan to run an 860 simulator on
>>the 68040, or recompile the source code each time you switched
>>processors?  Either way, the overheads are mind-boggling.
> 
>>"Run slower" is a gross understatement.
> 
> 	I'm not sure that I entirely agree. In particular, why should
> it be necessary "to re-compile the source code each time you switched
> processors"? Assuming that enough memory or on-line storage is
> available, what's wrong with having two _pre-compiled_ versions of the
> task (one for each processor)? The task switching problem then becomes
> a simple case of suspending on one processor and loading/running on the
> other. I can't think of any references straight off the top of my head,
> but I know that this kind of technique has long been proposed (and
> probably used by now) as a means of supporting load-balancing and
> process migration in heterogeneous distributed systems.

The tricky part would be to keep track of where a task was up to
at the time of a task switch - i.e. which bit of object code in
one machine language corresponded to which bit in the other version.
Preemptive task switching would be completely out of the question,
because you'd have to guarantee that the machine registers were not
holding anything useful at the time of the switch.  This means that
the compilers could not be permitted to optimise across
statement boundaries, either, which would be a bit of performance
hit.  It looks to me that you'd have to have a rule that task
switching happened only at pre-designated checkpoints which both
compilers knew about.

This sort of solution is not impossible, but it would be a major
headache to implement, and it would have some significant performance
penalties.  Given that the point of the original proposal was to
get a performance increase, you might be better off throwing away
one of the processors and using a decent compiler and low-overhead
OS on the other.

For similar reasons, I didn't mention interpreted languages in my
original response.  Using an interpreter on both machines is clearly
the easiest way to solve the incompatibility problem - this could
be implemented with very little trouble - but why bother?  The
overall speed of the two-processor system would be lower than any
decent single-processor solution.
-- 
Peter Moylan                      eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au
Xref: sparky comp.realtime:1563 comp.os.misc:1018
From: jcavin@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry D. Cavin)
Subject: Realtime Hardware
Organization: Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:52:14 GMT

Article 3157 (4 more) in comp.realtime:
Subject: Re: Realtime Hardware
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:53:23 GMT
Organization: Charles River Data Systems

I wrote:
>>Is there anyone out there that have used the chip set that
>>implements the XTP ( eXpress Transfer Protocol )?

From: miket@frog.CRDS.COM (Michael C Tiernan) wrote:
>Is there any references available for this protocol?
>What is it's intended use?

The reference I have is the book XTP: THE EXPRESS FILE PROTOCOL 
by W. Timothy Strayer, Bert J. Dempsey, & Alfred C. Weaver, 
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1992.  XTP is a protocol used in
fiber optic to allow for very high speed, real-time networking
at speeds upto 100 Mbit/sec with a gigabit/sec expected soon.  
This network has been pioneered by Greg Chesson at Protocol 
Engines Inc. and is being studied at several universities.  
Due the the speed it is implemented on silicon as the PE1000
chip set, it is (will be?) available from Protocol Engines Inc.

NOTE: The XTP Definition is in the public domain and is available via
email at xtp-request@pei.com

Jerry Cavin

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Newsgroups: comp.realtime
From: kellyj@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kelly Johnson)
Subject: Re: novel idea?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 06:59:41 GMT

In article <erempel.726720401@sol.UVic.CA> erempel@sol.UVic.CA (Evan Rempel) writes:
>I haven't read very much in the realtime environment, but I have
>a thought about an OS that has what I think is a fairly unique
>idea.
>
>I am looking for an OS (real time obviously) that has the
>ability to swap a task from one cpu to another. This is merely
>a multiprocessing system. The catch is that I want to be
>able to mix cpu's. Say a 68040 as the general, but then a i860
>running on the side for complex graphics. If the i860 becomes
>bogged down (I don't know what I would be doing to bog down the
>i860, but lets say I do) and the 68040 is sitting idle (or close
>to it) can one of the tasks that is running on the i860 be switched
>over to the 68040 to run there.
>
>I know that the single task on the 040 would run slower than on the
>i860, but if the i860 was bogged down, the net result would
>be a system speedup.
>
>Is there any system out there that provides this type of
>functionality?
>

The problem with the idea is that the executable code for the 68040
and i860 are totally different.  It is not uncommon to have a
homogeneous multi-processor system that swaps tasks between cpu's
for load balancing, but doing so between totally different types of
cpu's would not be a simple task of just swapping tasks. 
I fail to see how this could ever be done effectively.  
Anyone else agree/disagree?

Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Subject: Re: Standard Disclaimer Notices Sought
Organization: Exile Government of Bramming
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:15:11 GMT

tom@oracorp.com (Tom) writes:

>Our company is interested in establishing guidelines and standard
>disclaimer notices for our users who post articles to Usenet News.

>We wish to make it clear that any messages or opinions expressed
>are the viewpoint of the individual and in no way reflect the
>opinion or position of the corporation or it's other employees.

One of the things that I have never understood is how someone can
think that any poster is the representative of his/her employer.
Such disclaimers shouldn't be required in intelligent company.
-- 
No News is Bad News
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Standard Disclaimer Notices Sought
Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:45:08 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost

In article <1993Jan7.195556.2781@oracorp.com> tom@oracorp.com (Tom) writes:

:Can anyone provide me with samples of the standard disclaimer state-
:ment your company may require with respect to the posting of articles
:to Usenet Newsgroups or any of the myriad of topical mailing lists?

Check out my "Organization:" header.  It's not corporate-blessed, but
I think it gets the idea across without a lot of fuss.  I have smail
and various news readers configured to use the above as the default
"Organization" header if one doesn't already exist.

						...Mike
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From: valery@aix6.bgs.com (Valery Kravchenko)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: test
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:36:48 -0500
Organization: BGS Systems
NNTP-Posting-Host: aix6.bgs.com

Sorry, test
From: valery@aix6.bgs.com (Valery Kravchenko)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Sorry, test
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:40:54 -0500
Organization: BGS Systems
NNTP-Posting-Host: aix6.bgs.com

Sorry, test
From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Standard Disclaimer Notices Sought
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:48:51 GMT
Organization: AS&M Inc
Reply-To: J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cmb00.larc.nasa.gov
In-reply-to: dejesus@saturn.nwc.navy.mil's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:31:41 GMT

In article <C0IHKu.HKC@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> dejesus@saturn.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
   In article <1993Jan7.195556.2781@oracorp.com> tom@oracorp.com (Tom) writes:
   >Our company is interested in establishing guidelines and standard
   >disclaimer notices for our users who post articles to Usenet News.
   >
   >We wish to make it clear that any messages or opinions expressed
   >are the viewpoint of the individual and in no way reflect the
   >opinion or position of the corporation or it's other employees.

   The above paragraph seems like a fairly good disclaimer notice to me!

Except that the apostrophe in the last line should be deleted.
--
J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@LaRC.NASA.Gov> +1 804/864-2148
    employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at
         NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681-0001
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
From: jerbil@ultra.com (Joseph Beckenbach {Adapter Software Release Engr})
Subject: Bibliography Request
Summary: Forming a bibliography
Reply-To: jerbil@ultra.com
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:00:20 GMT

Greetings, all!

        I'm putting together a bibliography called "Towards a Better Sysadmin".
It's to be a listing of books, articles, and resources which have helped some
sysadmins be better sysadmins -- but not limited to specifically system
administration-related resources.  What resources have made you a better
system administrator?  
 
        Reply with titles, any other information which comes to hand, and
short annotations explaining what it is, and why it helped.  For instance:
----
Strunk and White, _The Elements of Style_.  Handbook for writers to encourage
tighter and more precise writing.  Useful when stuck for ideas while editting
documentation and policy statements.
 
USENET newsgroup comp.admin.policy.  Discussions of system administration
policy.  Commiseration, learning what goes on at other sites, problem solving
and problem prevention.  Helped me become more aware of legal issues involved
with "private" networks and systems.
 
British comedy group Monty Python.  General silliness and weirdness.
Good way to distract users during lunch, an excuse to be less of a hermit,
and source of jokes leading to exploration of language and application
oddities.  I find it a great writer's-block breaker.
----
 
        This bibliography, should it reach critical mass, will become an
article for SAGE (a USENIX Technical Group, "System Administrators' Guild").
Regardless, I'll make it available for you and others, so that you can see
what others thought was useful.  Your contribution will be creditted;  any
philosophy behind your choices, and other random thoughts, are welcome as well.
 
        I'd like contributions by the end of January, for the first draft of
the bibliography.
 
                Joseph Beckenbach
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	(speaking from, but not for, Ultra Network Technologies)

Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Subject: Re: Standard Disclaimer Notices Sought
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:52:27 GMT
Organization: QueerNet

In article <1993Jan8.161511.12875@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
>One of the things that I have never understood is how someone can
>think that any poster is the representative of his/her employer.
>Such disclaimers shouldn't be required in intelligent company.

One isn't simply speaking; one is using one's employer's equipment to speak.
If I send a letter on corporate stationery, it may be assumed (unless
disclaimed) to be the position of the company.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG              {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
                                                                   -- J. Foster
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
From: tom@oracorp.com (Tom)
Subject: Standard Disclaimer Notices Sought
Organization: ORA Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:55:56 GMT

Our company is interested in establishing guidelines and standard
disclaimer notices for our users who post articles to Usenet News.

We wish to make it clear that any messages or opinions expressed
are the viewpoint of the individual and in no way reflect the
opinion or position of the corporation or it's other employees.

Can anyone provide me with samples of the standard disclaimer state-
ment your company may require with respect to the posting of articles
to Usenet Newsgroups or any of the myriad of topical mailing lists?

Also, if your company has a corporate policy regarding non-official
use of the internet, could you forward a copy of that policy?

We are surveying other businesses prior to formalizing our own
statements and will share a summary of the results of our survey
if anyone is interested.

If this is a FAQ, I apoligize in advance, and hopefully some kind
soul will direct me to an archive where I can glean this info.

Thanks in advance,

Tom Darling
Systems Administrator
ORA Corporation
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
From: twallace@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Todd Wallace)
Subject: fully-employed students 
Keywords: employed, adult
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:37:36 GMT

I am a grad student in the computer science program at George
Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington
DC.  I also work full time as a Systems Administrator at a
consulting firm in DC.  Until recently, George Mason had a good
reputation among fully-employed students because it offered most
of its graduate classes at night.  However, this spring
semester, all computer science graduate classes have been
scheduled at 4:30pm, making it very difficult if not impossible,
for fully-employed students like me.

Several fellow students and I are attempting to make our
university more sensitive to the needs of the fully-employed
student, particularly in these times of extreme competition in the
workplace when so many people are going back for advanced
degrees while they are employed.

It would help our case a great deal if we could collect examples
from around the world about how other universities have
structured programs to make them more accessible to students who
have to schedule their school around their work.  I am looking
for any sort of example that would strengthen my case that my
university needs to sit up and take fully-employed students
seriously.

It seems especially ironic to me that now that I have the money
and the motivation for advanced education, that I would be
denied my dream of a master's degree and beyond simply because
of insensitive scheduling.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Todd Wallace
twallace@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
From: dejesus@saturn.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
Subject: Re: Standard Disclaimer Notices Sought
Organization: Science Applications International Corp.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:31:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.195556.2781@oracorp.com> tom@oracorp.com (Tom) writes:
>Our company is interested in establishing guidelines and standard
>disclaimer notices for our users who post articles to Usenet News.
>
>We wish to make it clear that any messages or opinions expressed
>are the viewpoint of the individual and in no way reflect the
>opinion or position of the corporation or it's other employees.

The above paragraph seems like a fairly good disclaimer notice to me!
-- 
      Francisco X DeJesus  ----- S A I C -----  dejesus@chinalake.navy.mil
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From: hartr@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Dave Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: ITS Library - Policy and Classification systems
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:06:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: uctvax.1993Jan11.130629.203447
Organization: University of Cape Town

Could anyone give me an email address of any organisation using the Dewey
Classification system for a Computer Centre Software Library that loans books,
manuals and software.  Added to this I who like to hear from people about their
policies for library loans in the context of universities loaning books,
manuals and software.

Please email to me direct Hartr@uctvax.uct.ac.za