hi things i didnt understand they said acorn sold 1.5million machines they said there were around 250,000 unsold acorn electrons didnt sincalir sell 3million speccy
your argument about unions? we dont want to subsidise coal production despite in the 80's having 300 years supply then why are we subsidising farmers in Europe to produce food more expensively than can be bought on the world market - we then need to pay higher taxes in order to pay the farmers - and the food mountains end up being destroyed in order to protect the subsidised higher prices - anyone for sacking 300,000 farmers like the mining communities suffered? what a pity that the mere threat of reducing the CAP has left Europe in the same shape as the 40's with ten years of civil war and further conflicts still having to be dealt with thanks to an evident undermining of an impossible to agree/implement foreign policy what a pity the pc platform has just like the microcomputers before it tried to cheat the customers pci interfaces are not compatible with agp or pci-e software drviers and hardware are incompatible windows doesnt even install the right drviers for vga cards the chipset - nvidia ati manufacturers drviers also failed to include actual manufacturers specification drivers - including things like tv output support - although the very opertaing system practically prevents you from ussing a tv as teh screen resolution needs to be set so low in order to read the text that the very dialogue box to selct it has the apply box off the bottom of the screen when you choose 640x480 resolution then there are the tv input ecnoders anyone managed to get one working at teh 1024x768 reslution msi claims their vga cards support when the bundled application for encoding wont even encode with the advertised 600mhz processor - it needs a 1.8ghz p4 - not written anywhere on the box nor the fact that it still wont work without a further pci tv tuner - though if you do happen to have an msi digital tv tuner then the digital tv tuner is perfectly at liberty to ignore the encoder on the vga and still claim you need a 2.4ghz processor for encoding every time i have installed a driver from a website my machine has crashed i cannot remove the driver without reinstalling windows the drivers are so massive that they take all night to trasnfer 100mb of code using a fone modem after i have spent four nights trasnferring the 450mb of microsoft updates which are moving at the incredible 3-4kb a second despite the msi site stuffing a driver along at 10-14kb a second - i though mnp5 itu t v42 wqas for text only i have an itu t v44 pci modem but still havent figured out how come the serial interface on a dual core motherboard is 115kbps the same as the sam and spectrum - though bruce told me in swansea the comms interface was 32kb - if he was talking bits per second then ?! and even at 32kb it is still too slow for the advertised 320kbps of the itu t v44 speed though this is ofcourse too fast for the onbaord serial interface so i have a pci hi speed 920kbps serial interface - which is naturally incompatible with the driver for the modem which insists on displaying two totally different maximum serial interface speeds on eat the internal serial interface max of 115kbps and the other the hi speed 920 kbps maximum pc land is great! - not that there is a single isp in the uk that actually would allow me to use itu t v44 to connect as any 56k modem i have insists on connecting at 40kbps while the same netowrk providers fone line is connecting at 115kbps using and external v32 modem - this is rediculous the people who allow you to connect to the network are going to allow you to use a fone modem at its maximum capacity - why when they are trying to sell you a faster more expensive connection which they dont even need to advertise the embarrassingly poor upload speed of usually 256kbps - which is less than the itu t v44 320kbps unless she isnt an upload speed? mind you if im right about this even the sam cant shift a 24kb screen from external ram into internal video ram witha 4¾mhz processor it would have needed 7½mhz even if you use pop and push to do it - which i still havent figured out how to do fancy having a block trasnfer instruction that is slower than pop and push seems daft no? 2009/10/15 nev young <[email protected]>: > Stuart Brady wrote: > >> Surely the PC must have already experienced a certain level of success >> for Compaq to have considered it worth cloning. Was the original IBM PC >> really that popular, or did the availability of MS-DOS on other non-PC >> compatible hardware contribute? I would guess that the mantra that >> 'nobody ever got fired for buying IBM' played a part in all of this... >> > I think the cloning started as the XTbus was intended to be "open"(ish) so > 3rd party companies could and would make new and interesting hardware. > However, it would have to be licensed/approved by IBM. The 3rd party > companies decided it was simpler to just clone the whole machine and the now > well known phrase "IBM Compatible" was created. > > Of course, I may remember it wrong. > > As a point of (little) interest, I do have an original working** IBM PS1 > here. > > IMHO This is the most interesting thread we've had here for a long time. > > Nev > > ** well it was last time it was tried. >
