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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 03:13:17 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #737
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Linux-Misc Digest #737, Volume #2 Sun, 11 Sep 94 03:13:17 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Any Sound Blaster drivers for Linux abailable? (Hannu Savolainen)
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Re: Linux Slip Server (Viktor T. Toth)
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Re: Looking for cheap DC-6525 tapes (525MB) (John T. Fontanilla)
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Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why??? (Anthony Lovell)
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Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Russell Nelson)
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Horrific bug in DOOM! (Mark Stockton)
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Re: memory above 16Mb ? (Jon Freivald)
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Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why??? (Pete Deuel)
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Alpha processor
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seyon toolkit options, how? (Alex Wong)
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Re: Looking for cheap DC-6525 tapes (525MB) (Tom Young)
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Re: Biz.comp.linux* (Pete Deuel)
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Doom with a 8bit sound card and sox (K L Van Horn)
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Re: How to play .au file? (chrisp@dirac.bcm.tmc.edu)
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A little bit more advice (Drizzt Do'Urden)
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Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60 (C. Engelmann)
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Re: Nachos anyone? (David Holland)
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Re: Virus checker software for Linux. (David Holland)
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What do I get moving from 1.0.9 to 1.1.49? (Robert Logan)
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Re: Yggdrasil (Adam J. Richter)
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Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect. (Glen Harris)
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Re: DOOM and Linux (Larry Mulcahy)
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From: hannu@voxware.pp.fi (Hannu Savolainen)
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Subject: Re: Any Sound Blaster drivers for Linux abailable?
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 04:03:56 GMT
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mbru6513@pilot.stu.cowan.edu.au (Matt Bruce) writes:
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>Hi,
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>Being relatively new to the wonderful world of Linux, I was wondering if
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>drivers have been written for the Sound Blaster cards. In particular, I
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>have a SB AWE32 with 2 Mb RAM, that would be a shame to leave to MSDOS
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>alone.
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You poor AWE32 owners!
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It's not possible to write a driver which supports full features of the
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AWE32. Creative Technology has not released information about the Emu
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chip and I bet they will never do that. The same is true with the ASP
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also.
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The AWE32 works as a SB16 with Linux. However it's much cheaper to buy
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a plain SB16 than an AWE32 or SB16ASP.
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Hannu
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--
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Hannu Savolainen
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hannu@voxware.pp.fi
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"Don't use Windows since there is a door!"
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From: vttoth@vttoth.com (Viktor T. Toth)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Linux Slip Server
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 19:32:14
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In article <34s0va$o1j@cleese.apana.org.au> dlg@cleese.apana.org.au (David Garrard) writes:
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>Iam currently trying to set up my Linux box as a slip server and I have
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>come across a problem that has me stumped. I have created an account with
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>a shell /usr/bin/dip -i and I have put it in /etc/shells. Every time I log in
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>with this account the computer tells me tha /usr/bin/dip -i does not exist and
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>logs me out. However the program is there. Any help would be greatly
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>appreciated.
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That's because login doesn't interpret a shell with parameters in the passwd
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file correctly. Create, instead, a soft link: diplogin -> dip and usr
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/usr/bin/diplogin as the shell; if dip is invoked with the name 'diplogin',
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that implies the -i.
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Viktor
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From: john@wwa.com (John T. Fontanilla)
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Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Subject: Re: Looking for cheap DC-6525 tapes (525MB)
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 23:46:26 -0500
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In article <34nl5d$ivq@news.u.washington.edu>,
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Janos Szamosfalvi <szamos@stein2.u.washington.edu> wrote:
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>Margaret S Voges (voges001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
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>: In article <ah.778966905@dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk>,
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>: Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
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>: >Dear all,
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>: >
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>: >I am looking for a supplier to get *cheap* DC-6525 tapes (525Mb)
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>: >in the UK. Any suggestions?
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>
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>: I'm also looking for DC-6525's or DC-6250's only I am in the US.
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>
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>JEM sells a five pack of DC-6525's for $70 + S/H. Their phone
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>number can be found in numerous computer magazines such as Computer
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>Shopper, etc.
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This is cheap if they're the 3Ms. Normally, they're $25 a piece from
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mail-orders I've seen. Now, I have to get C.Shopper.......
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
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From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why???
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 22:16:08 GMT
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Damien P. Neil (damien@b63519.student.cwru.edu) wrote:
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: installing a complete Un*x system from original sources gleaned from
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: assorted FTP sites is NOT the work of a novice.
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Keep it up, this is good for my ego.
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Well not all from source, I lack the disk space to build GCC TeX X11 and the
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lib's, that and an expensive dialup line.
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--
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anthony
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==============================================================================
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alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk | If at first you don't succeed
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PGP Key available from a server |
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alovell@cix.compulink.co.uk | Get a Bigger Hammer
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==============================================================================
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From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom,sci.electronics
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Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ??
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 02:49:44 GMT
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In article <34rbks$1ch@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
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Bill C. Riemers <bcr@physics.purdue.edu> wrote:
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> 2. There is significant delay between action and sound. i.e. I
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> can fire my gun and then turn halfway around before the gun
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> sound comes through my speakers.
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Get shorter speaker cables.
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No! Get thicker cables. The problem is that the electrons (which are
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really just like tiny elephants) can't travel as quickly in a narrow
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cable. They bump around too much if the wire isn't big enough. If
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you get thicker wires, then they can shoot straight down the middle
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without bumping into the walls.
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Electronics is really very simple if you understand the physics of it all.
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--
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-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html
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Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key
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11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it?
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Potsdam, NY 13676 | LPF member - ask me about the harm software patents do.
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From: marks@schooner.sys.hou.compaq.com (Mark Stockton)
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Subject: Horrific bug in DOOM!
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Reply-To: marks@schooner.sys.hou.compaq.com
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 23:46:12 GMT
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Seems that when exiting the Linux version, you are prompted to
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"...quit to DOS?". What a blood curdling thought! Isn't it time
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we put a rating system in place for these shareware games?
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--
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Mark Stockton
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marks@schooner.sys.hou.compaq.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: jaf@pine.liii.com (Jon Freivald)
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Subject: Re: memory above 16Mb ?
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 23:57:32 GMT
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Andre Addicks (A.Addicks@telecom.ptt.nl) wrote:
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: Hello,
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: We are trying to setup a Compaq systempro (486/33 Mhz) with 24 Mb internal
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: memory. We compiled the kernel (1.1.45) with the option:
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: 'Limit memory to low 16MB' CONFIG_MAX_16M n
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: Still after booting Linux finds no more than 16Mb. Kernel message:
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: "Memory 15004k/16256k available (652 kernel code, 384 reserved, 216k data)
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: Anybody knows where to find the lost 8Mb ?
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: Thanks in advance,
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Did you run the EISA config so that the system recognizes all 24 meg?
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From: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Pete Deuel)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why???
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 03:57:20 GMT
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>>(a multitasking, modular kernel in less than 128k. You gotta be impressed
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>>by that)
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>Why should I be impressed? UNIX was orginally developed and run on 64k
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>LSI-11. And it did a whole lot more a whole lot better.
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Yeah, actually, what a trip. Both are impressive as hell! It's a miracle
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that any of that (and this!) works at all...
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And you need 8+ Megs for OS/2 (12 for comfort, 16 for moderate performance,
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more is better)... Phooey!
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Linux all the way! :)
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Pete
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"Actually, I'm a lab mouse on stilts..."
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E-mail: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
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From: jmantel@worf.infonet.net ()
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Subject: Alpha processor
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 03:49:06 GMT
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I saw that someone posted some info about a prot of linux to the alpha
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processor. I could not find that info and was wondering if someone could tell me where to find it or summarize it for me.
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Thanks in advance,
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Jaime
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From: hwong@ee.ualberta.ca (Alex Wong)
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Subject: seyon toolkit options, how?
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 03:57:13 GMT
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Hi all,
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I want to set the delay time between each dial to 2 seconds instead
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of the default 10 sec but with no success.
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Looking at the manpages of seyon , there is a toolkit option called
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dialDelay. When I try to use this option by typing
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seyon -dialDelay 2
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An error message saying that invalid option.
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How do I use the toolkit option?
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Thanks for any help.
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Alex.
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From: tom@optical.bms.com (Tom Young)
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Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Subject: Re: Looking for cheap DC-6525 tapes (525MB)
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 17:36:12 GMT
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Reply-To: tom@optical.bms.com
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In article ivq@news.u.washington.edu, szamos@stein2.u.washington.edu (Janos Szamosfalvi) writes:
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>Margaret S Voges (voges001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
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>: In article <ah.778966905@dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk>,
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>: Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
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>: >Dear all,
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>: >
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>: >I am looking for a supplier to get *cheap* DC-6525 tapes (525Mb)
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>: >in the UK. Any suggestions?
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>
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>: I'm also looking for DC-6525's or DC-6250's only I am in the US.
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>
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>JEM sells a five pack of DC-6525's for $70 + S/H. Their phone
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>number can be found in numerous computer magazines such as Computer
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>Shopper, etc.
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all sold out
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...---...---...---...---...---...---...---...---...---...---...---...---...---
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Tom Young
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Information Scientist for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., N.J., USA
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tom@optical.bms.com
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The views expressed do not represent
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the views of my employer......
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From: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Pete Deuel)
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Crossposted-To: news.groups,biz.config
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Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux*
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 05:01:46 GMT
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[could not post to biz.config, as the original did]
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In article <34sqeo$hd6@kelly.teleport.com> spire@teleport.com (Steve Wicke)
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writes:>From: spire@teleport.com (Steve Wicke)
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>Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux*
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>Date: 10 Sep 1994 10:30:00 -0700
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>In <34rfc9$13j@news1.shell> pierre@shell.portal.com (Pierre Uszynski) writes:
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>>In <Cvu65K.C7M@dpcsys.com> dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) writes:
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>>>Steve Wicke (spire@teleport.com) wrote, in biz.config:
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>>>> I would like to create a set of groups called biz.comp.linux* for
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>>>> hardware, & software. Maybe we could just call it
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>>>> biz.comp.linux.services. What do you think?
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>>>5 comp.os.linux groups [exist]. Why [...] a new hierarchy in biz?
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>>And so far, distribution, configuration and consulting businesses
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>>have been welcome to post there (within the usual limits of decency,
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>>and etiquette...), and get mentioned in the FAQs easily. It's just that
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>>these are groups where these limits are actually respected, as opposed
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>>to many others [...]
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>The reasoning I have for wanting to start a biz.* heirachy for linux is
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>that there are commercial vendors now addresses the need for
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>professional Linux support. Professional support costs money...ie; is
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>[...] I would
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>like to open a group that would allow people like myself, Yggdrasil,
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>Info-magic to post ads. These ads would be for the person who wants to
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>try things like Linux but does not want to have to deal with hunting for
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>help with their problems.
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YEAH! Imagine what "What's the best distiribution?" questions would yield!!!
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Let all the distributors vie for superiority! (in certain niches, including
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overall)
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The bummer is, of course, that we'll all have 2x the number of news groups to
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read, too. But, there is always cross posting...
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I'm all for it!
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Pete
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--
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"Actually, I'm just a lab mouse on stilts..."
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E-mail: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
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From: vanhornk@tele9.Colorado.EDU (K L Van Horn)
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Subject: Doom with a 8bit sound card and sox
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 04:07:26 GMT
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I am trying to get Doom to work on my soundblaster 1.5 card and
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keep the game playable. I made /dev/dsp into a FIFO used sox to
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do the conversion. The game really slows down when using sox. I
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also need to know the play rate for the sounds. Here is the command.
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sox -t raw -w -s -r 42000 /dev/dsp -t .au -A /dev/audio
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Would this conversion need a great amount of cpu time or could
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optimization fix it? My 486DX33 really can't handle much more than
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doom.
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-Leif
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From: chrisp@dirac.bcm.tmc.edu
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Subject: Re: How to play .au file?
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 04:04:25 GMT
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Depending on the card you have (ie: SB) you may use /dev/dsp with VOC
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files.
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You can convert them using the EXCELLENT Sox packages:
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Creator & Maintainer:
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Lance Norskog thinman@netcom.com
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(maybe found under Lsox) It convert from/to almost any kind of format.
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It can be found on sunsite.unc.edu
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Location: /pub/Linux/apps/sound
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FILE -rw-r--r-- 231 Jun 18 16:46 Lsox-linux.README
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FILE -rw-r--r-- 116646 Jun 18 16:46 Lsox-linux.tar.gz
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Have fun!
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Christophe Person
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<a href="http://dirac.bcm.tmc.edu">
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My Web Page</a>
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From: darkelf@netcom.com (Drizzt Do'Urden)
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Subject: A little bit more advice
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 21:06:27 GMT
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--
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|_|\__| |_| |__/|_| "My moral standing is lying down..."
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From: engel@yacc.central.de (C. Engelmann)
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Subject: Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 18:00:24 GMT
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danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
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>In <1994Sep2.080346.24257@tequila.oche.de> Peter@tequila.oche.de (Peter Hahn) writes:
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>>zkessin@world.std.com (Zach) writes:
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>>>Hi i'm looking to get a system to run Linux but was wondering if
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>>>someone could advise me on weather I should get a 486dx4/100 or a
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>>>Pentium 60. The 2 systems I am looking at cost almost exactly the same
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>>>but the 486 has a 520 mb SCSI hd while the pentium has a 420 ide.
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>>>Any thoughts?
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>>
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>>Two arguments apperare in mind: First, a Pentium-60 benchmarks at 61 SpecInt,
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>>a dx4-100 at 52 -- can't remember floating point exactly, but the difference
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>>is tendencially even bigger. Second the memory interface of the Pentium is
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>>much better than the 486 one. It is 64 Bit wide and knows of write back
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>>cache.
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>> There are even more reasons, but this two would be sufficient for me.
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>You seem to ignore the fact that the performance of a Linux box does not
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>depend exclusively on the cpu speed. The hard disk performance is also
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>essential, and here the 486 box is at a clear advantage. The extra disk
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>space is a bonus, too.
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>So, it's not going to be an easy choice :-)
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>Dan
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Harddisk-speed isn't that important in Linux. CPU-speed is definitely
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more valuable. If you could get more RAM it would be more difficult
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to decide. With 16 Megs you have almost no swapping to HDD.
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Carsten
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Subject: Re: Nachos anyone?
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From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
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Date: 8 Sep 94 17:27:09
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blackbob@wwa.com's message of 5 Sep 1994 12:18:29 -0500 said:
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> > Has anyone ported/compiled nachos operating system code to Linux?
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> >It is said to compile under FreeBSD etc. I am working with version 3.2.
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>
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> I compiled Nachos 3.2 when it first came out under linux. The main thing
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> to do is remove all of the non-386 code from switch.s. There are several
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> other changes, but didn't take me more than a couple of hours (much less
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> for someone who knows what he's doing)
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It works just fine. You don't need to hack it up much at all; just
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give it the compile flags for compiling on a 386. The major problems
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are built in to nachos and will bite you just as badly on any
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platform.
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--
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- David A. Holland | -- "Do you have a moment?" -- "Yes.
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dholland@husc.harvard.edu | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."
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Subject: Re: Virus checker software for Linux.
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From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
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Date: 8 Sep 94 17:31:10
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bjorn@oslonett.no's message of 6 Sep 1994 22:27:50 +0200 said:
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> Would be nice to have a way to check diskettes for boot viruses, though.
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> They coldn't do any real harm under Un*x, I guess, but they could
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> keep spreading .. and I don't want to keep DOS around just for that !
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Oh, yes, they can. If you get a boot sector virus onto your hard
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drive, it will quite happily garbage up your Linux (or other Unix)
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partitions when it goes off. The things use BIOS disk I/O before the
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OS loads, which will run perfectly well...
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Assuming it's one of the sort that goes off, like Michelangelo.
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--
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- David A. Holland | -- "Do you have a moment?" -- "Yes.
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dholland@husc.harvard.edu | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."
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From: rl@dmu.ac.uk (Robert Logan)
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Subject: What do I get moving from 1.0.9 to 1.1.49?
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 21:36:09 GMT
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Im curious as to what benefits a kernel upgrade
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from 1.0.9 to 1.1.49 will give me - in general.
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Ive already tried it and Ive noticed my CDROM now
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works double-speed - a real benefit, but what are
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the other main improvements overall?
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bert
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(486/66 16 Megs, 540 Mbyte HD (EIDE), ATI Mach32 PCI)
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--
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Linux - reaches the parts other beers fail to reach.
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From: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil
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Date: 10 Sep 1994 21:56:39 GMT
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In article <1994Sep9.130031.23308@rdr.com>, <eruck@rdr.com> wrote:
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>
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>Does Yggdrasil have an anonymous FTP site and if so could someone please give
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>it to me.
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ftp.yggdrasil.com
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--
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Adam J. Richter Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
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(408) 261-6630 "Free Software For The Rest of Us."
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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From: glen@beca.ece.jcu.edu.au (Glen Harris)
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Subject: Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect.
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 00:12:59 GMT
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Erik Nygren (nygren@news.mit.edu) wrote:
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: Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
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: : Umm it seems to be unplayable on standard ISA video cards - even the better
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: : dumb ISA cards. Anyone running it with an ISA S3 card and a 8Mb 386DX40 and
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: : want to give a performance report since I need a new video card anyway.
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: I'm running it on a 486/66 with the XFree86 Beta P9000 server (which
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: does no real acceleration and just acts as a linear local bus frame
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: buffer). In this configuration, I get performance that is signifcantly
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: better than the same thing on an SGI Indy. There seems to be a byte
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I have a DX2/66 with 16M RAM and an ISA ET4000/W32i - with the NON-
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accellerated SVGA server. I'm using a symbolic link to my mounted dos
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partition's 1.666 registered WAD file. This port is faster than the DOS
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version running on my old 486DX/33!!!!! Now, to find out how to get a
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320x200 server - I have to squint in 1024x758, and 640x480 isn't much
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better...... 8-)
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Maybe it's because I'm running my bus at CLK/3? vgatest from SVGALIB
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tells me I get 8.6Mb/s through my video card. If I go to CLK/2, I can
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get 11.6Mb/s. Maybe I should try that? Please take note all, this is
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on a _ISA_ card - Dave, I'm sorry to have to tell you that you were
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WRONG(!), a local bus card is _not_ necessary for acceptable gameplay.
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Get your facts right in future! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
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--
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Thats fifty green fires and hot * * * *
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* * * Glen Harris * * * * * * * * * * leads to go, with a side order * * * * *
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* * * 4harrig@wench.ece.jcu.edu.au * for blisters and scorpions. * * * * * *
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hold the mercy." - Conina (Sourcery) * *
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From: lmulcahy@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Larry Mulcahy)
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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Subject: Re: DOOM and Linux
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 12:12:54 -0600
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Rob Ingram (rji@cs.nott.ac.uk) wrote:
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: This was just updated and linux doom is out. If you don't have
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: a Pentium though I wouldn't bother wasting the ftp time. Even
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: in the smallest window size it ran like a dog on our 486/66
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: with 16M of RAM. The readme file acknowledges that it will be
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: slow and says that it was released anyway due to peer pressure.
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: This is actually a bit disappointing as we only have 3 Indy's or
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: 2 PC's and wanted a 4-way deathmatch. The DOS version won't network
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: with the SGI version but I hoped that the Linux version would :-(
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I just tried it today on my 486/40 and performance was quite
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acceptable. The graphics for the -2, -3 and -4 options were hosed
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though, unless this is supposed to be new Underwater Doom.
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Yog Sothoth Neblod Zin,
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Larry Mulcahy That cult would never die till the stars
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lmulcahy@nyx.cs.du.edu came right again, and the secret priests
|
|
would take Great Cthulhu from his tomb
|
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to revive his subjects and resume his rule of Earth. The time would be easy
|
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to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones free and
|
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wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men
|
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shouting and killing and reveling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would
|
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teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and
|
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all the Earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
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