[cctalk] Re: DOS p-System Pascal: (Was: Saga of CP/M)
On 2024-05-09 09:46, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2024, 5:39 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: Without doing the research before asking, there was the UCSD p-System Pascal for IBM PC which came out very early in the history of the IBM PC. It was not very popular. The SAGE II that had native Pascal (68000) was not a popular machine. Waterloo Pascal on the SuperPetPascal never really made it on the microcomputer platform did it? Not until TurboPascal... But it was only a few years until C emerged from the language "street fight" as top dog... depending on what the universe of microcomputers we're talking about. I recall that MS sold a Pascal compiler, possibly from someone else. It was very slow and buggy. I heard a story that to speed up disc access, MS put FAT-manipulation code in the actual compiler and that occasionally destroyed the FAT. S.
[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?
On 2024-03-09 14:50, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. Zane I just subscribed to comp.os.vms on Eternal-September without issue. All seems well. S.
[cctalk] Re: Store with "vintage" computers and parts
On 2023-02-09 09:31, Eric Moore via cctalk wrote: There are some older folks on the list, so this is a good time to talk about internet safety. Having spent over 30y in cybersecurity, I suppose that I qualify. #6-) I am sure that this was not meant as a condescending insult but perhaps a different choice of words would have preferable. N.
[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012
On 2022-10-19 10:06, Raphaël Jacquot via cctalk wrote: Le 19/10/2022 à 15:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk a écrit : Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor, contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_ house for the money owed. Want to keep your house? Better pay again and then try to extract that money from the contractor later by way of the courts. this whole paragraph sounds utterly illegal... No -- perfectly legal in many jurisdictions in both the US and Canada. In fact, you need not even be told of the lien. Reputable contractors will give you (or you should demand) a release from liens. N.
[cctalk] Re: Apple G5 Rebuild
On 2022-10-10 17:39, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 10/10/22 10:33 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: 4 words is not "Google-fu". Sometimes knowing /which/ /words/ to search for is the problem. Indeed. Also, I have added more words and received more search results. One would expect the opposite. I've also seen Google return extremely different search results for different people. Google also tailors results to location and cookies. (I always search in private mode.) Not what it once was...(Sigh) N.
