Forwarded message: From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Oct 24 16:58:35 1994 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 16:58:22 +0100 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: frodet Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Status: O X-Status:
----- Transcript of session follows ----- While talking to mailrouter1.umist.ac.uk: >>> DATA <<< 554 8BIT SMTP extension not supported 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service unavailable ----- Recipients of this delivery ----- Bounced, cannot deliver: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by ulke.hiMolde.no id AA28519 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Mon, 24 Oct 1994 16:49:08 +0100 From: Frode Tennebo <Frode.Tennebo> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bob's amazing hard-drive plans... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cooke) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 16:49:08 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Simon Cooke" at Oct 24, 94 01:13:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3427 > > I had a long chat to Bob at the show, and here's what the hard drive > is going to be like: > > He has a "team" (doubtful) working on changing the basic ROM -- he's > going to rip out the network code and replace it with an options > screen (ala multiROM???? Methinks so) to boot from disc (f7), hard- > drive (f8) or network (f9) (how, if he's ripping out the network > code?) Perhaps network code in contended RAM? Who's on the team btw? > > The Hard Drive will occupy ports 234-235 (ARGH! they're LPT2!!!) and > apparently the "design group" are having problems getting enough > drives smaller than 40Mb to work with -- ie I think we're talking > stupid file system that can't handle more than 40Mb HD's here folks... Cool....then I can get ridd of at least 40 of my discs. Hum...will the drives perhaps be replaceable a la Bernoulli? :) No, if THEY are having problems getting drives smaller than 40Mb, how do they suppose that there will enough drives for even a small market? I doubt that smaller drives than 150Mb is even made..... > > Oh, and he wants to change how the dos works -- apparently putting > the device in the filename is a no-no, so he's putting down these > standards: > > CAT instead of DIR must be used (although you can do it the other > way, in programs it will be changed back) > <<"Because you CAT a directory, you don't DIR a directory">> Hum...all we need is yet another 'standard'. What about renaming a directory to a folder and use the command FOL or FLD? I myself prefere the unix-standard now. > > LOAD d1"filename" instead of LOAD "D1:filename" > (although, again, you should be able to use the other, but it's not > "preferred") > <<"the device shouldn't be part of the filename as it causes all > sorts of problems">> Why hassle with two possibilities? Just extra code.... > > LOAD p<number> instead of LOAD <number> I would much rather see the convention that if you type a command that is not predefined or name of a procedure/function, the dos tries to load a file with that name. Though LOAD <number> gives less to write, simpler to parse and less code. > He wants it all to be very G+DOS compatible. I say hit him over the > head with a cleaver -- the dimwit wants to keep it at Spectrum levels. > > Needless to say in the next issue of SAM Prime, we'll be printing the > PD hard-drive design, now that we've seen the crap he's coming up > with. What about publishing it in Format? ;) > > What I'd like to know is how the hell are you supposed to be able to > change drives. If you want a program to use either drive easily on > the SAM currently, you can do: > > LOAD drive$+filename$ > > How the **** do you do it if you're forced to use LOAD d1"filename" > ????????????????? DEVICE drive¤ LOAD filename$ > > Anyway, let's get discussing this :) The snowball's loose...... OH! Just a little thought. What about dropping ALL SAM-hardware development project and instead release a fully SAM compatible plug-in board of the PC-compatible (with extras of course). This way you could utilize interfaces that people already have (harddrives, soudboards, graphics- cards, etc)? -- * Frode Tennebo * It's better to live life in * * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * wealth and die poor, than live * * phone: +47 712 57716 * life in poverty and die rich. * * snail: Parkv. 31, 6400 Molde, NORWAY * -Frode Tennebo* -- * Frode Tennebo * It's better to live life in * * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * wealth and die poor, than live * * phone: +47 712 57716 * life in poverty and die rich. * * snail: Parkv. 31, 6400 Molde, NORWAY * -Frode Tennebo*
