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system: You are Jeff Guerdat, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Cavanaugh about "ZIP DRIVES ON NT".

They wrote:
SC>You haven't burst my bubble.  If you think SCSI is easier to set up than
SC>parallel, you're a better man than I...  My BBS is a case in point.  I
SC>must have pulled every hair out of my head trying to make SCSI-1 and
SC>SCSI-2 disk drives and backup tape drive all coexist in one system.  I
SC>finally took all the SCSI-1 stuff off the bus to get things running.  On
SC>my system, it just can't be done.  I think with any type of peripheral,
SC>it's going to depend a whole lot on what's already there, what system
SC>resources are already consumed, and what type of resources can be
SC>configured for the peripheral.

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assistant: On 04-24-97, STEVE CAVANAUGH said to MARK WRIGHT:
I suspect that you either have 1) an older, not well-supported host adapter
r
2) faulty cabling and/or termination.  I have had 0 problems setting up SCSI
devices, SCSI-1 mixed in with SCSI-2, on the same chain (with Adaptec host
adapters) that was not directly attributable to bad/poor cables or improper
termination.  The host adapter negotiates with each device individually to
determine what can be supported so mixing new and old devices is a non-issue.
The catch is that use of SCSI-2 also means shorter cable lengths and active
termination that SCSI-1 doesn't require (but will work with perfectly).
Perhaps ANCIENT SCSI-1 devices may cause a problem (the first implentations
f
SCSI were far from perfect, based on what I've heard) so removing those may
prevent problems.
There's a reason you were having problems and if you wish to revisit them, we
can probably be of assistance with enough data and facts around the specific
hardware and software (drivers)...
system: You are Jeff Binkley, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "RE: BACKUP PROGRAM".

They wrote:
-> JB> discussion with  others.  One question we had was whether a JB> Jazz
-> drive could read Zip  drive media or not ?
->
-> No way.  Just lay a jaz cartridge next to a zip cartridge and you've got
-> your answer.  They are completely different media.

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assistant: Thanks.  I thought so but wanted to be sure.  I do know their Ditto drives
an
read many of the standard QIC tape cartridges though.  I thought they might
have worked the same type of arrangement on their removable medai stuff.
                        Jeff
system: You are Jeff Binkley, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "holy cow! what a mess...".

They wrote:
-> JB> Two other suggestions.  Get some training on NT and make a
-> JB> backup before  doing these types of changes.  I've done the JB> same
-> types of things before  on about every OS there is but JB> learned from my
-> mistakes that nothing is  a substitute for a JB> good backup.  The problem
-> here wasn't NT.
->
-> If reinstallation of the OS is required, the backup may not do much good
-> applications.  Some of the NT administration programs such as sysdiff
-> be useful, but you really have to know what you're doing.
->
-> I think you've oversimplified the problem.

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assistant: for
ight
Perhaps but I've never had a situation with NT yet where a backup couldn't
ix
it.  I've even had a situation where I did have to reinstall NT to get the
tape
driver to work to do the reestore.  Restoring everything, including the
registery restored the system to normal.  Now if the backups are bad, that is
a
different story.  I've always used Arcada's backup for NT and have never been
disappointed.
                                Jeff
system: You are Chris Holten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "Backup program".

They wrote:
CH> I don't know about Service Pack III even. I have lost my
CH> confidence in NT 4.0 and even though I've many opportunities
CH> to install it, I'm not. Just too damn many hassels and
CH> bullsh@t to have to put up with from a "premium" PC
CH> operating system. NT 3.51 is still far and away MS's best
CH> operating system.
BD> ... and how many service packs do you have installed on NT 3.51?
CH> Windows 95b with FAT 32 is better and more
CH> stable than NT 4.0 workstation.
BD> That's really stretching things.

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assistant: On NT 3.51, probably all five of them, but I don't recall any of them that
were ever to fix major bugs or causing any major bugs. They came out in a
timely even order when they were "ready" and were not rushed to fix major
problems with the initial release of 3.51 or for that matter, the service
packs for 3.1 and 3.50.  Mostly I used them to take advantage of "upgrades"
and enhanced performance and features (IE SPIII and 16 bit faxing, SP5,
improved TCP and over all the speed increases in both the desktop and
networking throughput from 1 to 5 were quite noticible) and I don't recall
any of them ever making the mess that the combination of SP2 and the hotfixes
are, nor was -any- 3.x version of NT anywhere near as "buggy" as NT 4.0 on
thier iniitial release. The lack of bugs and stability is what most impressed
me with NT until version 4.0. Other than the explorer interface, as far as
the basic operating system goes, NT 4.0 really isn't any more capable than NT
3.51 SP5 but it does have more overhead. I have confidence in MS, and will
stick with NT, but it certainly won't keep me from, unless I have to, using
NT 4.0 or stating my disappointment with it. MS just simply did not do a wide
enough beta on it is my opinion.
I don't think so bob. I'm talking stability, ease of installation and
maintenence, and certainly a serious consideration in leiu of NT 4.0
workstation. Like Win95, It's much less buggy and as a network workstation
running comperable equipment, usually faster than NT 4.0 anyway. As a server,
no way.
Sorry, maybe NT 3.x spoiled me, as stability and hassle free, ease of
install, maintenance are my #1 economic considerations, not a fancy GUI and
other mindless "features" that ragazine writers are obscessed with when they
review operating systems.
There is a TCP "hotfix" out now for NT 3.51, but I'm not going to install it.
My TCP/IP works fine and I've had enough of NT 4.0 "hotfixes" to last me
through this millenium anyway<g>.
system: You are Dale Ross, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Christer Solstrand about "Purchase".

They wrote:
CS> Talking about 64-bit... Is it true that NT 5.0 is going to be a 64-bit

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assistant: OS?
It's been printed that Microsoft will make a 64-bit version for DEC to use on
the Alpha.
Dale
system: You are Rick Pali, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Wright about "Zip Drives on NT".

They wrote:
MW> The printer will not use a interrupt unless it is postscript

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assistant: 27 Apr 97 04:06, Mark Wright wrote to Bob Davis:
Why is that? Why would the computer care whether it's sending binary or ASCII
data and trigger an interrupt only for the ASCII?
Rick.
system: You are Jeff Guerdat, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "Backup NT Registry".

They wrote:
RH>      Actually the same approach works for the NT registry,
RH> you just have to be booted into DOS to do it since the
RH> registry is locked from reading by the OS..
BD>Its kinda tough to do it from dos on an NTFS partition.

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assistant: On 04-26-97, BOB DAVIS said to ROGER HINSON:
When, oh when, will NTFSDOS allow writes to an NTFS partition from DOS?  8^)
system: You are Mark Wright, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "Backup program".

They wrote:
BD=>CH> Windows 95b with FAT 32 is better and more
BD=>CH> stable than NT 4.0 workstation.
BD=>That's really stretching things.

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assistant: I have to go with CH myself... MS has lost my confidence with 4.0
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Butch geese have delusions of gander.
system: You are Jeff Binkley, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "holy cow! what a mess...".

They wrote:
-> JB> Perhaps but I've never had a situation with NT yet where a
-> JB> backup couldn't fix it.
->
-> We're talking two different contexts.  I believe this thread began with a
-> discussion of going from a single processor MB to a dual processor MB -- a
-> situation that required a complete re-install of NT and its apps. That was
-> the situation where I said a complete backup would not do all that much
-> good.

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assistant: Ok. I'm not sure why it required a reinstallation.  I've taken single
processor
systems to multiporcessor system without reinstalling NT.  There is a utility
in the resource kit to help you do this.  It is called: UPTOMP.EXE .  Now
service packs can be a problem though <g>...
                        Jeff
system: You are Chris Holten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tony Dunlap about "Purchase".

They wrote:
TD> Nor has there been much innovation in the OS/Program
TD> arena since the 386 came out, other than to use up the
TD> cheaper/more plentiful resources most computer users
TD> now enjoy. I can toss and read echomail just as fast
TD> using DOS software on my old 286 (which is what I'm
TD> using right now) as I can on my P-90 64 meg NT-4
TD> machine at work. In a few years, we will all look back
TD> and remember the '90's as "The Bloated Code Era" :^)

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assistant: What in the heck are you doing to make DOS run so fast on a 286 Tony? I use
Squish 1.11 for DOS on my NT server and toss from 90-165 messages/second.
Using NTFS file system, which really speed Squish up.
On a really good day your high powered DOS 286 tosses about 15 msg/sec right?
system: You are Chris Holten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "Zip Drives on NT".

They wrote:
MW> Parallel ports havent used interrupts for years unless using
MW> postscript.
BD> Postscript has nothing to do with the parallel port
BD> hardware. Interrupts for parallel ports have been part
BD> of the PC architecture since the beginning of time.

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assistant: I don't know if this will shed any light or not, but I just thought that we
ought to note that all microsoft operating systems since DOS v 1.0 use
printer polling instead of interupt printing. Just because the printer port
came with a hardware interupt, doesn't mean that is used in the manner I
think is being inferred here. With printer polling, the interupt is not held
high hence it can be shared. With dos, the programmer could write print
routines that directly accessed the port, and  could, if he chose to, use
interupt printing (holding the IRQ line high) instead of the default DOS
polling, which perhaps is what was done with the drivers/print routines of
the postscript printer you are basing on. Interupt printing would not be a
requirement to print postscript as those are only printer control codes.
Windows NT defaults to polling, not interupt printing, however, as with OS/2,
you can set NT up to use interupt if you have a reason to. OS/2 v 2.x and
Novell default to interupt printing, but both can be changed to print
polling. I believe that OS/2 warp 3 and above, like Microsoft PC OS's default
to printer port polling. Novell does not work very well with printer polling,
especially if you are sharing the interupt with another printer port. NT has
no problems with shared printer ports IRQ's that I've ever been able to
determine. That difference I suspect is something basic to Novell and NT's
print services design.
Since NT defaults to polling, I would imagine that any printer and drivers,
postscript, bidirectional, whatever, that work in NT could not be trying to
use direct interupt printing as NT doesn't allow direct hardware access of
the printer port.
Not sure about ECP ports, but those are a superset of the original PC
parallel port architecture in that not only do they have a hardware interupt,
but they also use DMA. I don't know how NT handles ECP ports if it even does
treat them differently from the standard IBM PC architecture paralell port.
system: You are Terry Roati, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "RE: NTFS PARTITIONS".

They wrote:
BD> That program is a bomb waiting to explode.  I've found numerous files
BD> 100 mb of files from ntfs to dos and it only copied 2 files!  Yet it
BD> would show the directory and even allow some of the programs to be
BD> executed while on the ntfs partition.
BD> The author makes a big disclaimer that the program should not be used
BD> for backup.
BD> think the program was simply an academic programming exercise.  I
BD> personally think it was irresponsible of the author to release it.  He
BD> doesn't charge money for the program and for good reason.

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assistant: On Apr 26, 1997 08:57am, BOB DAVIS wrote to TERRY ROATI:
Hi Bob,
Why a bomb, you would only use it as a last resort.
I think it has limitations because of memory.
I did not recommend it for backup, I have used it to recover files from a
crashed NT4 system. I personally find tape backup unreliable and not worth
he
money. I and a number of friends who have used various types of tape drives
have all experienced bad tapes and worse short life span of the drives. I am
going to get a Quantum Bigfoot 6.4 gig and use it to mirror what I need. This
is cheaper than going with a Jazz drive and much more reliable.
Which makes you wonder why Microsoft didn't make it <g>.
Personally I don't, when you have a system OS crash you might also find it
useful. Bob no one forces you to use it, it has it warnings etc, I would say
the junk beta programs from the big companies is irresponsible but then
hat's
progress <g>.
Just another man's thoughts.
Regards from the Philippines,
Terry.
... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!
system: You are Alex Broens, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "Backup program".

They wrote:
BD-> I consider "ghost" to be an inappropriate backup mechanism.  It makes a
BD-> physical backup. If you have a 3.8 gb disk drive, you have to have room
BD-> for a 3.8 gb physical image somewhere, even if you've only got 200 mb
BD-> files on the drive to backup. Ghost has failed several times when I've
BD-> used it to restore an image.

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assistant: Hi Bob!
Saturday April 26 1997 08:09, BOB DAVIS wrote to ALEX BROENS:
f
Nobody uses it as a backup, but more of a very efficient and fast total
epair
chance to restore a backup after a severe crash.
(Try reinstalling over SP2...depending on the machine, impossible!)
(Its definitely faster than re-installing NT from scratch!)
That may have been a few versions ago.
I use it all the time to setup NT servers in the 12GB range (RAID 5) and I've
never had image files bigger than 400 Meg which is NT, source, service pack
and
a working copy of Arcada, all stored in an image file, for example.
I am using a licensed copy, maybe the demo has limitations...never bothereed
to
compare.
read you...
Alex
system: You are Don Bosman, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Aldrich about "Modems".

They wrote:
JA> GH> part, I stick to known brand names. For example, I buy modems from
JA> GH> (but *NOT* a Winmodem!), SCSI controllers from Adaptec, and like
JA>I agree on the WinModem, but there's plenty of other, VERY good modem
JA>manufacturers that are significantly LESS expensive than USR. I'd suggest
JA>look at Cardinal for one....Supra makes an EXCELLENT modem and they've
JA>...and it looks like a LOT of people are
JA>going to be out of people stuck with USR's 57.6k "standard" when the ITUT
JA>comes out with their OWN standard...)

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assistant: SR
hat.
you
ALWAYS
I agree with the WinModem criticism, but for a different reason.  When
reinstalling parts of Win 95 one quite often has to take the WinModem
physically out of the machine, reboot, then shut down and reinstall the
modem to get it recognized again.
I used to like and sell Supra Modems, but no will no longer do so as
Diamond has bought the company and quality has gone way south.  "New"
RMA replacements are coming back defective or dying a few weeks later.
Hayes owns or shortly will own Cardinal so it seems that even Hayes is
hedging their bet on which 56k standard wins.  One of the other modem
companies that Hayes owns also, like Cardinal, makes the USR compatible
modems.
 * OLX 2.2 * Grow your own dope... Plant a liberal.
system: You are Mark Wright, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bob Davis about "holy cow! what a mess...".

They wrote:
BD=>JB> Perhaps but I've never had a situation with NT yet where a
BD=>JB> backup couldn't fix it.
BD=>We're talking two different contexts.  I believe this thread began with a
BD=>discussion of going from a single processor MB to a dual processor MB
BD=>-- a situation that required a complete re-install of NT and its apps.
BD=>was the situation where I said a complete backup would not do all that
BD=>good.

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assistant: That
much
Next time you might be able to save yourself a bit of time.
 - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5 and 3.51
 - Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5 and 3.51
To upgrade a single-processor system to a multiprocessor system, use
UPTOMP.EXE. UPTOMP.EXE is included in the Resource Kit for Windows NT
version 3.5. This tool is located under Performance and System
Monitoring
Tools in Resource Kit Tools Help.
This is the list of computer models that appear and their associated HAL
file names that ship with Windows NT.
halast.dll    = "AST Manhattan SMP"
halsp.dll     = "Compaq SystemPro Multiprocessor or 100% Compatible"
halcbus.dll   = "Corollary C-bus Architecture"
halmca.dll    = "IBM PS/2 or other Micro Channel-based PC"
halapic.dll   = "MPS Uniprocessor PC"
halmps.dll    = "MPS Multiprocessor PC"
halncr.dll    = "NCR System 3000 Model 3360/3450/3550"
haloli        = "Olivetti LSX5030/40"
hal.dll       = "Standard PC"
hal486c.dll   = "Standard PC with C-Step i486"
halwyse7.dll  = "Wyse Series 7000i Model 740MP/760MP"
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Dogs come when you call. Cats have answering machines.
system: You are Terry Roati, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jeff Guerdat about "RE: Backup NT Registry".

They wrote:
JG> When, oh when, will NTFSDOS allow writes to an NTFS partition from DOS?
JG>  8^)

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assistant: On Apr 27, 1997 07:11am, JEFF GUERDAT wrote to BOB DAVIS:
 Hi Jeff,
No news, check what's new at www.ntinternals.com every now and again.
Regards,
Terry
... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!
system: You are Dave Bedwin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Aldrich about "Purchase".

They wrote:
JA> "proprietary" (a la USR's HST standard...no one else
JA> followed it...and it looks like a LOT of people are going to
JA> be out of people stuck with USR's 57.6k "standard" when the
JA> ITUT comes out with their OWN standard...)

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assistant: John Aldrich wrote in a message to Greg Battes:
which ever way you look at it 56K is going to be a bit of a problem, as you
need to have one end of the link on a digital barer line[killostream or
megastream all the way to the premisis or an isdn with the modem in the
anologue
port] just wont work any other way. coper at both ends just dont work even if
its to a digital exchange, so only good to internet providers who take it up,
no
good for modem to modem for the normal user
Groetjes,
           Dave
             [Team Os/2 Ver 4]
system: You are Jeff Guerdat, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Wright about "Zip Drives on NT".

They wrote:
JG=>My HP 5L is sure using an interrupt (IRQ7 for LPT1) for PCL.  It's not a
JG=>function of the printer language - it's only for high speed communication
wJG=>whatever's attached to the port...
MW>Lookup PCL...

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assistant: On 04-27-97, MARK WRIGHT said to JEFF GUERDAT:
I'm sorry - must be dense today.  What?
Again, it's a hardware issue...
system: You are Jeff Guerdat, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Wright about "Zip Drives on NT".

They wrote:
BD=>MW> Parallel ports havent used interrupts for years unless using
BD=>MW> postscript.
BD=>Postscript has nothing to do with the parallel port hardware. Interrupts
MW>foBD=>parallel ports have been part of the PC architecture since the
MW>beginning ofBD=>time.
MW>The printer will not use a interrupt unless it is postscript, been
MW>using/sharing lpt1 irq7 and sound cards irq7 "since the beginning of
MW>time".

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assistant: On 04-27-97, MARK WRIGHT said to BOB DAVIS:
Yep, but the page description language is not what forces the use of an IRQ.
It's a HARDWARE issue, not software...
system: You are Christer Solstrand, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Windows 32Bit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dale Ross about "Purchase".

They wrote:
DR> CS> Talking about 64-bit... Is it true that NT 5.0 is going to be a
DR> CS> 64-bit OS?
DR> It's been printed that Microsoft will make a 64-bit version for DEC to
DR> use on the Alpha.

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assistant: Okay, so Intel isn't going to rush a 64-bit processor, just to keep up-to-
date with the OS'es? :-)