On Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:49 AM, Nils Stavlid wrote:
> Dear all,,, personally I like it whenever topics spiral out on a side track
> like in this case.
> ...
As do I! It's refreshing to see all the diversity of thought in everyday
FreeDOS users. Cool stuff!
Dear all,,, personally I like it whenever topics spiral out on a side
track like in this case. It’s refreshing and we can always choose to ignore
each other’s views if we want to. A quote with some relevance to this:
“Let’s be clear: the work of science
has
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:07 PM Jon Brase wrote:
> On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> > As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound.
> > The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to
> > be read from/written to disk.
>
> Actually, as a general
Hi,
Indeed the discussion became offtopic.
Eric incidentally hit a different sensitive spot of mine... (sorry!)
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 23:57, Eric Auer wrote:
> If you are interested in alive dragons, visit a Komodo Dragon.
> Those lizards do have some dragon-like properties, but they are
>
Interesting to read about the possibility of patching in support for newer
southbridges, Michał. Can you provide a link to any more information on
that? I tried googling a bit, including seraches limited to the Vogons
forum, but nothing came up.
thanks.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:45 PM Michał Dec
Hi!
First, a short note to Dave, Mercury and Random: You can safely
ignore the mails with "[OT]" in the subject, as the thread has
been forked to keep faith and BIOS separate topics. Thanks :-)
https://www.discovery.org/m/2020/04/Scientific-Dissent-from-Darwinism-List-04072020.pdf>
"The
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-10 16:56 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>>> ...It has 20GB RAM
>> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
> Nope. It has four DRAM slots, and came with 16GB as four 4GB sticks
> in those slots. I
I agree. I’m on this list to discuss FreeDOS not religious opinions.
Thanks!
Dave Salyers
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 2:24 PM Random Liegh via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Is this a conversation that really needed to happen on a public,
> technical list?
>
> No, it
Agreed. I guess we can thank Tom for that! lol
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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:23 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user
wrote:
> Is this a conversation that really needed to happen on a public,
> technical list?
>
> No, it is
Is this a conversation that really needed to happen on a public,
technical list?
No, it is not. It could and should have been moved to private emails.
I'd like to request that it continue there so the rest of us aren't
forced to have our inboxes filled with unwanted nonsense.
Thanks!
tom ehlert composed on 2021-03-10 22:15 (UTC+0100):
> "Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
> is based on faith, not on science."
That's a signature block.
On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound.
The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to
be read from/written to disk.
Actually, as a general rule, on a consumer machine, both the CPU and the
disk spend
Hi everybody,
my impression of "evolution is faith, not science" is that
it is a bit like "my leg is not broken until I believe it"
but actually I rarely read signatures at all, so I have not
even NOTICED Felix' statement until Tom complained about it.
Sure, free speech could let you say
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>
> > The current desktop uses a quad core Intel i5 CPU and 3.5 ghz, with an
> > automatic turbo mode to 3.9 ghz. It has 20GB RAM
> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
Nope. It
On 3/10/21 10:50 AM, dmccunney wrote:
The fascinating bit for me is that the distinction between RAM and
disk is steadily blurring. Things like nVME make it possible to have
what works like RAM but is non-volatile storage whose content will
survive a reboot.
We are just scratching the
I'll step in for a brief moment to answer this in my own way prior to Felix
doing so. Sorry, Felix. :)
As to why you must be "annoyed" by anyone else's choice of email signature, I
would point out the Christo-American concept of free speech. Felix has complete
freedom to say whatever he wants
Accidentally responded to Liam instead of the whole list, resending.
On 3/9/21 3:40 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 22:28, Jon Brase wrote:
On 3/3/21 7:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS
boots and that will allow you
I'm not annoyed.
Al
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:17 PM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> "Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
> is based on faith, not on science."
>
> either give us a pointer why you think you must annoy us with that,
> or please stop with that (mostly religious)
"Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
is based on faith, not on science."
either give us a pointer why you think you must annoy us with that,
or please stop with that (mostly religious) nonsense.
Tom
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Freedos-user
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
> The current desktop uses a quad core Intel i5 CPU and 3.5 ghz, with an
> automatic turbo mode to 3.9 ghz. It has 20GB RAM
What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
--
Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
is based
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 23:37, dmccunney wrote:
> >
> > On my old XT clone, I had a replacement 10mhz motherboard with a NEC
> > v20 CPU. The V20 was compatible with the Intel 8088, but had better
> > microcode, for a cheap 5% speedup. It had
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 23:37, dmccunney wrote:
>
> On my old XT clone, I had a replacement 10mhz motherboard with a NEC
> v20 CPU. The V20 was compatible with the Intel 8088, but had better
> microcode, for a cheap 5% speedup. It had 640K RAM and two Seagate
> ST-225 MFM HDs. I got it an AST-
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