redistribute the VM and as I expected, IBM's
response was "we have PC DOS for free download? What? Where?!"
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t least 1 of the original machine?
>
> Nope. I’ve never even SEEN the machine in real life.
Ah, now, yes, then there we have a problem. :-)
OK, so, if the community can have a collective search down behind the
sofa cushions and provide you with original kit and software -- would
you wan
d the author reverse-engineer the original hardware in order to
emulate it, or use publicly-available docs? Then the emulator is clean
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ve me copies of them last time I visited him in
Edinburgh. :-)
Before he was a professional novelist, he wrote the Linux column for
Computer Shopper UK -- overlapping my time on the staff of PC Pro.
That's how we first met, about 20y ago...
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sn't _nearly_ bleak enough and the actual world has turned a
lot worse.
After his hasty rewrite, it's gone nastier again. His novel will now
seem like a cheerful upbeat alternate timeline instead.
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e is/was a commercial app to use the PC Card's onboard FPU to
accelerate RISC OS FP operations:
http://www.wss.co.uk/products.html#FPEPC
This is only faster on ARM6/ARM7 RiscPCs, though. StrongARM machines
could do faster FP in software.
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able for MS-DOS stuff.
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On 19 January 2017 at 18:28, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or use that whitening compound everyone uses for yellowed cases.
> Forget the name.
Retr0bright
http://www.retr0bright.com/
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On 9 January 2017 at 14:44, Pontus Pihlgren <pon...@update.uu.se> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > the gmail Bournemouth
>>
>>
>>
On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the gmail Bournemouth
Er. Pardon?
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On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to
> happen?
Damned if I know, but it's happening to me frequently, too. >:-(
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type of
Slavic women, I can assure you it's incorrect.
OTOH this is their reaction to British beauty...
http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/21/czech-gossip-site-blurs-out-miss-great-britains-face-because-british-women-are-not-beautiful-4957085/
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Emai
there on one of the boards.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/TV_Typewriter.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter
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An image gallery of cheesy -- and cheese-cakey -- magazine covers from
what were for me the golden days.
But the UK mags weren't ever like this.
Some of the names, and the typos, are highly amusing.
http://imgur.com/gallery/3Jlqh
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modore 8-bit computer -- the
C65 was arguably that (and a more logical successor to the C64, IMHO).
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On 23 December 2016 at 19:56, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Apple ][E was
> £1390 in 1983
Sorry -- wrong currency sign. $1390.
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machines, the era of DIY things with discrete boards,
no graphics, no sound, were both of little interest to non-specialists
(or those who didn't want to be specialists) or kids, AFAICT. I could
be wrong. They weren't of much interest to _me_ at 10YO or so, I can
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irly serious
hobbyists such as myself continued to use 8-bits & other old-fashioned
tech, as they were massively cheaper.
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On 23 December 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> The BBC Micro, at another quarter or third over the price of a C-64
>> but with a superb BASIC instead of CBM's abomination, was
American computer: $1000.
Even though back then £1=$2 or something, still, the American kit was
all ludicrously expensive and as rare as rocking-horse droppings
outside North America.
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On 5 December 2016 at 15:35, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote:
> emacs sucks!
I agree. So does Vi.
> *waits patiently*
There, does that help? :-)
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e originall: "worse-case". :-)
Splendid -- tweeted, with credit!
Well, I've buffered the first dozen, anyway...
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Full inventory to follow, will have to wait for a sunny day.
»
Would anyone care to suggest if any of this is worth money?
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get comments/replies.
It's annoying.
It also always breaks threads if someone changes the subject line.
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-- SAM -- was the most common
commercial one, but there were others. Virex and Disinfectant were the
most common freebies. There were both disk and file viruses, as well
as Trojans.
And when Mac Office 98 came along, there were macro viruses too.
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> Software selection for MacOS was pretty crappy, and it was hard to get under
> the hood.
That's not my experience, TBH. Big, great S/W range, shareware and PD,
hard_er_ but still possible to get under the hood.
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.cpm/V1-zYzA6Uzg
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mean it was totally impossible to get into RAM
and stay there, does it?
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y, and dumpstered the few machines
> that would have had to have their date manually set [ONCE!] after Y2K.
Well, TBH, I did some of that consultancy myself. I didn't dump any
kit though. Some clients took the chance to refresh their whole
office, and I made sure the old boxes were re-homed or
ailed them back one of the
> infected disks. That prompted a huge recall, back in the 90s.
Wow! I never heard about that one!
I did hear of other such instances, though. And more recently,
at-the-factory-infected USB sticks and digital picture frames.
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On 22 October 2016 at 21:21, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> :-)
>> A good 5-6y or more ago I restored an old Mac Classic II a friend gave
>> me. I got it dual-booting System 6.0.8 and 7.1 and had both of them
ldn't want to!
The Macs should do, yes -- but then most of those are going, I'm
afraid. I don't have the space any more, and when I did, I never used
them except when fixing them up to sell. :-(
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urposed from another Mac and
included some ancient Mac antivirus program -- I forget which one,
maybe Disinfectant. I was glad of it, though, as it triggered and
found one of my downloads was infected with an equally ancient Mac
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lude malware signatures from other systems, in case of attachments
etc. which can't infect the host machine but could if passed on to one
of the target OS.
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ull inbox.
Yes, me too.
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interested in opinions: do folk think that it would help, or not?
Also, anyone who might have any info that would aid him and are
interested, I can put you in touch.
He claims the system was influential in the design of the original
Intel 8088/8086, which is news to me. Comments?
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It boots, and with a borrowed mouse, GUI apps work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMp5EAq-Elo
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Cell
D in its levels. (Doom only faked this.) Quake
allowed up to 16 players in deathmatch mode, and ran over TCP/IP. I do
not know about the limitations in Quake II, which was AFAICR
Windows-only on the PC, let alone Quake III.
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Aural Quest
Acorn Archimedes: Zarch (well, the Lander demo, really)
DOS PC: Doom
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On 5 October 2016 at 04:55, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Not to be more flippant than usual, PC-DOS/MS-DOS has no graphics capability
> (80x25 text).
Doesn't DOSShell count?
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one.
Indeed. I have successfully laser-printed a SUN optical mouse pad
before now, IIRC.
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ng yet
to do. ;-)
Might it not be a good plan to copy the bootable disk onto the diag
disk that's full of garbage?
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tains some discussion of level-based versus pulse-based logic in
early valve computers which is frankly way over my head but might be
of interest to some here.
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n trying to build his own:
https://hackaday.io/project/1043-base-3-ternary-computer-from-scratch
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ed from Singapore where their home broadband was delivered over
ATM.
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nd
I've seen a demo network set up at a show in the last decade I think,
but I don't think I ever saw one in action.
I did see IEE-488 in use, both on CBM PETs and BBC Micros, in
education -- both for storage and for connecting to lab equipment.
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owever,
it's the best for my needs these days. Every subject edit creates a
new thread in it, and it's very confusing.
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inux.. which happens.
Er. Explain? How can a dumb storage device run any OS?
I have various bootable USB sticks around the place, all with Linux
on, but they don't _run_ it. I won't touch the "smart Wifi enabled"
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ses who had no need for it,
and the needless complexity and pain killed the product. Most
egregious case of corporate suicide I ever saw.
> * Lantastic
I forgot that. I think I saw that very occasionally.
> * Windows / Microsoft
Well, yes.
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On 14 September 2016 at 15:59, Tor Arntsen <kspt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 September 2016 at 15:50, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To this day, I have never once used any form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
>
> A typo, I presume? NFS, as in
ny form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
However, I routinely worked with:
* 3Com 3+Share
* Sage MainLAN
* Personal Netware
* Netware Lite
* DEC Pathworks
Most of these never seem to get mentioned in Stateside comms.
Odd.
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On 13 September 2016 at 20:58, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
> On 09/13/2016 11:12 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> OK, but are we talking MacOS or Mac OS X here?
>
> As I said, Mac OS 9.2. I'm not interested for my G3 to talk to other
> Macs--the only other one here
least. The
> trouble was with the geometry of the screen and the selected graphical
> chip.
I have found CentOS a PITA in VMware, I can concur there.
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everyone has done.
So add it back if you need it.
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me time my clients started
switching to broadband, and soon, I ripped out all the proprietary
protocols. Soon after, Mac OS X did the same.
By about 2005 or so most things were pure TCP.
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on laptop keyboards, too.
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es work fine -- but only for standard disk formats.
You can't read/write old Mac 400/800kB disks in 'em.
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ivial to add it back.
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and
other such steps.
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rrible.
They're the best chicklet keyboards out there -- but I agree with you;
I really dislike using them.
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ainstream. At both my office jobs over
here in Czechia, people came over to see what I was typing on, to feel
it and try it.
It's most disconcerting.
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a
proper (i.e. '80s) Mac when I'm typing on it. :-)
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thus
pre-Open Transport. IIRC 7.6 is also the first release that requires
32-bit clean ROMs -- 7.5 and earlier didn't.
So it sounds like a legitimate misunderstanding, probably via
over-zealous editing.
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> automotive suspensions.
*Groan*
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http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=30456459#p30456459
Found via:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-do-some-mac-users-still-rely-on-16-year-old-software/
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ther countries may not
be readily able to search eBay US. Or they may not have saved
searches, or they may not cover what's posted, or they didn't know
something existed or was available, or a thousand other reasons.
If you don't like them, ignore the threads.
Some of us find them useful or interes
>From Adrian Graham on FB. I never knew it had one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0MpUMh80zk
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-- let alone the actual
tools -- are leaving me in awe. Compelling viewing!
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On 23 August 2016 at 13:44, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> "UNIX
> Implementation" by Ken Thompson.
This one?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2866044_UNIX_implementation
The other, you'll need to give the exact title/author...
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http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?47761-Anybody-have-info-about-the-Canon-VP1000-(a-k-a-quot-VP-1000-quot-)
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ut not
to DOS boxes started under Windows. I did this occasionally for
memory-management reasons.
But both 95 & 98 are DOS based and function near-identically.
WinME removed the ability to boot to a command prompt, it didn't
execute AUTOEXEC.BAT any more, nor much of CONFIG.SYS -- the DOS
"kernel&q
On 31 July 2016 at 18:23, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 08:57:08PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>> I'm experimenting with some old DOS versions, notably PC DOS, in VirtualBox.
>>
>> I have a PC-DOS 2000 system with DesqView and DesqVi
version, mainly used for utility floppies, actually boot
from HD & be used like a normal DOS?
And although I've not tried it yet, the same question applies to PC
DOS 7.1, the early-noughties version that can understand FAT32 and
long filenames.
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On 25 July 2016 at 02:26, Ali <cct...@ibm51xx.net> wrote:
> Huh? That post is over three years old. Am I missing something?
>
>
Aargh! Sorry. Perils of posting at 2AM after beer. Apologies.
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Yes, today.
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?37827-Greetings-from-GE-Canada!=c5a7c6993a9fd08879d7e412fdd31010
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rite exactly what I did write, drawing a
comparison between the two. However, you have made me aware of the
possible ambiguity in the sentence.
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gt; There were only a few
> made. They were used internally during development - hence the podule to
> connect it to a Beeb, which provided the I/O early on - and in the later
> stages before the Archimedes launch in 1987, several were loaned to software
> developers.
This is the machine Dick Pountai
On 21 July 2016 at 22:22, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 09:02:41PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 19 July 2016 at 17:04, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> [...]
>>> RISC implies a load-store architecture, so that
tle/6502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703717
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rage unit in
South Wimbledon, where I have no power or anything, so I can't
plausibly get it out and test it.
I am planning to move the rest of my stuff here to Czechia next month,
mainly for cost reasons due to the falling GBP. If you wished you
could come and meet me and inspect it in perso
n it. The Newton 2000 was the first
model with a StrongARM but it was merely an upgraded CPU for the newer
hardware.
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*Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES
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Today we present another point of view from a gentleman who has created
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always was remarkably low and its performance, for its first decade or
so, remarkably high.
> IMO, it's the predicated instructions that is ARM's special sauce and the real
> innovation that gives it a performance boost. Without those, it'd be just a 32
> bit wide 6502 knockoff
most of the big
hot UNIX workstation chips of the '90s?
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On 20 July 2016 at 17:44, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> It is true that a few RISC architectures are not very scrutable. Itanium is
> a notorious example, as are some VLIW machines.
Hang on. Itanium is not RISC -- it *is* VLIW. Isn't it?
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echnica.com/apple/2016/06/digging-into-the-dev-documentation-for-apfs-apples-new-file-system/
> I'd rather install a 20 year old OS I've never seen versus OSX on VMware,
> but that's just me.
Partly. ;-)
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manage to do
it.
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u, you can run it with VMWare too. :)
I've heard that but I have never once got it to work, either in VMware
or VirtualBox. :-(
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Perhaps
> someone with greater familiarity with the MEMC chip can tell us if
> there is some tricky DRAM support feature I've overlooked.
I will look.
There's a hint here, though:
https://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2013/wilson/feature.html
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On 15 July 2016 at 22:29, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Reminds me of horrible compatibility glitches with OS X in the early
>> days. E.g. one of my clients had Blue & White G3s on a Windows NT 4
>> network.
On 18 July 2016 at 17:03, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote:
> "Shiner" started out as an 88110 machine, and some of the architectural
> quirks are remnants of that.
This is not enough for me to Google. Could you clarify, please?
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emselves occupy many hundreds of meg, these days edging to gigabyte
range.
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have been great -- but also very expensive, and the Amiga was a
low-cost machine in a very price-sensitive market. A 68020 in 1987
might have been just too much, too expensive.
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h an ST-506
drive & Arthur (i.e. RISC OS 1 -- an ARM port of the BBC Micro's MOS
with a desktop written in BBC BASIC).
So I suspect no DMA... but I don't know.
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ability wasn't as good, but while OS/2 2
was better, NT 3.x was better than OS/2 2.x et seq.
It would be technically possible to produce a streamlined,
stripped-down Windows that was a bloody good OS, but MS lacks the
will. Shame.
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ut
> not Chrome (yet). Since I mostly turn off Javascript and Flash, using
> simple browsers like Dillo are often fine, too. Websites these days are
> basically a huge hairball of code they assume I will run, when all I care
> about is markup and content. I get why it's done, but they
t
would have really helped DVX -- one of the problems with it that I
read about was the need to mangle X.11 font filenames in an
incompatible way, so that they'd fit into 8.3 characters.
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