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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: Wed, 12 Oct 94 09:13:48 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #921
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Linux-Misc Digest #921, Volume #2 Wed, 12 Oct 94 09:13:48 EDT
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Contents:
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Multi serial card: what card is it ? (Riccardo Facchetti - Allanon -)
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Some timings for Maple on Linux (Dr. Jacques Gelinas)
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Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.) (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Hardware Compatability Guide for linux? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: ez (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?) (Budi Rahardjo)
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Re: X News-reader for LinuX (Karl Keyte)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (craig@tanuki.twics.com)
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Man page program source code (Hao Chiu)
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Re: RFD: comp.os.linux reorganization (Timothy Andrew Lister)
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Re: GCC for the ARM6 (Alan Cox)
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/etc/ptmp (Colin MacDonald)
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Re: WARNING: Xfree-3.1 XF86_Mach32 may damage non-green monitors! (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
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Re: Newbies? (was Re: Hmmm) (H. Peter Anvin)
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From: riccardo@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (Riccardo Facchetti - Allanon -)
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Subject: Multi serial card: what card is it ?
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 09:52:03 GMT
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Hello,
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I have a big problem with a multiserial 8 ports card.
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I have to build up a linux system that act as gateway between modems and
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tcp/ip. I have a multiserial card but ... look at the problem:
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I have the card ... and nothing else. No manuals, no dip switch configs
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no informations.
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There is only a model name printed on the card.
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This logo and mod. name is:
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***
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*** TECH SI4-A
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***
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I would like to know who is the producer of this board and/or where can I
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find its tecnical manuals and/or programming infos about the card.
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The layout of the card is more or less (i'm not a good ascii artist):
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+-------------------------------------------------+
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| TECH SI4-A _____________ | O____L______
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| +> |_____________| (**) | | ----
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| | _____________ ____ (1) | (2) |
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| +> |_____________| |____| | ____|
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| ____ | _____________ ____ | |____|\
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| |____| +> |_____________| |____| | |____| \
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| | _____________ ____ | |____| \
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| (*)---+> |_____________| |____| | |____| \ 8 x RJ11 plugs
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|__________________________________________| |____| /
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| ____ _________ ___ _________ __ |____| /
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| |CLK | |8..DIP..1| |___| |8..DIP..1| |__| |____| /
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| |____| |_________| |_________| |____|/
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+-------------------------------------------------+
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||||||||| | ||||| | | |
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+---------------------+ +-----+
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CLK: 1.8432 Mhz
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(*) Four UMC chips: UM82450
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(**) The card is made by two pieces, one on the top of the other.
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If someone of you have any kind of information about this card, please let me
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know. I need it!!
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Thank you in advance.
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Ciao,
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Riccardo.
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--
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Riccardo Facchetti | e-mail: riccardo@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it
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Centro di Calcolo |
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Politecnico di Milano |
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P.za Leonardo da Vinci, 32 |
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I-20133 - Milano - Italy | Nickname on IRC: Allanon
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| EBIC coordinator for *.it domain
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Home address: |
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Via PAOLO VI, 29 | For anyone that play FRPG, look at this:
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22053 - Lecco - Italy | http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it:6666/~riccardo/
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==================================================================
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...
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there walks a lady we all know * who shines white light and wants to show *
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that everything still turns to gold * and if you listen very hard *
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the tune will come to you at last * when all are one and one is all *
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to be a ROCK and not to roll ...
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... and she's buying the stairway to heaven
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LZ
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From: gelinas@VAX1.cmr.ca (Dr. Jacques Gelinas)
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Subject: Some timings for Maple on Linux
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 17:20:50 -0400 (EDT)
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The installation of MapleV R3 for Linux went smootly yesterday.
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It comes on 17 3.5" disks, as a split cpio archive. The whole package
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needs 20 megs of disk space. Any good Linux hacker short on space could
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figure out in a few hours how to persuade cpio to leave out the share
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directory and, maybe, even the X11 stuff. The library itself is over 10 megs.
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So this is a full *nix release indeed.
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Up to now, i have been running Maple from the console and found it very
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familiar, much like the 1989 version on an Apollo workstation or
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the DOS version i use daily. No surprise is good surprise. The most welcome
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feature is the command line interface (readline like) which i know so well.
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The "license manager" consists of a world writable directory with a copy
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of information given on the first run, and a log of usage. This is what i see:
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omicron:~/maple$ uname -a
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Linux omicron 1.1.51 #1 Sun Sep 18 13:59:48 CDT 1994 i486
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omicron:~/maple$ maple
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|\^/| Maple V Release 3 (Colle`ge Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean)
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._|\| |/|_. Copyright (c) 1981-1994 by Waterloo Maple Software and the
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\ MAPLE / University of Waterloo. All rights reserved. Maple and Maple V
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<____ ____> are registered trademarks of Waterloo Maple Software.
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| Type ? for help.
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> !ps
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PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
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1232 pp1 S 0:02 sh -i
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1233 pp1 S 0:00 mapleV -b /maplev/lib/update -b /maplev/lib
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1234 pp1 S 0:00 mapleV -b /maplev/lib/update -b /maplev/lib
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1235 pp1 R 0:00 ps
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(Notice the professional touch: the "patch" directory is renamed "update".)
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Here are the some results from my Linux machine (486DX/33/16MB)
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compared to those of the DOS version on the same machine.
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Maple R3 for Linux is on a secure NFS mounted external disk,
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while the DOS 1.1 version is local.
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This file is in fact a Maple script, with results on top.
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================================================================
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`486DX/33/16MB/LNX/R3`:=[102.74, 30.23, 30.23, 8.64, 6.05, 7.15, 5.05, 7.69];
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`486DX/33/16MB/DOS/R1`:=[105.68, 45.43, 53.45, 7.85, 7.41,10.10, 10.00,35.87];
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`HP 9000/735` := [62.90, 20.56, 11.91, 3.18, 2.03, 2.58, 1.90, 3.28];
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`HP 9000/730` := [94.00, 30.38, 18.81, 5.03, 3.35, 4.30, 3.25, 5.00];
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`HP 9000/715/50:` := [127.48, 38.43, 28.23, 7.91, 4.73, 6.48, 4.70, 6.46];
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`Decstation 3100` := [122.81, 37.26, 42.06, 11.30, 8.46, 9.63, 6.70, 10.68];
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`Quadra 700/20MB` := [147.63, 42.95, 61.30, 18.03, 14.50, 17.93, 15.23, 22.61];
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# readlib(history):
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# history():
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# timing(evalf(Pi,10001)):
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itm:=1:st:=time():
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evalf(Pi,10001): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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5000!: time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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with(linalg,eigenvals,randmatrix):
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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eigenvals(randmatrix(15,15)): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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f:=x-> 4*x- 4* x^2:
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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(f@@5000)(0.6): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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g:=x->BesselJ(0,x):
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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(g@@2500)(0.6): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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kdv:= q-> diff(q,t) - 1/4 * diff(q,x$3) -3/2 *q* diff(q,x):
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q3:= ( -5*exp( 11* t/8) -45 * exp( 2*x) - 18 * exp( 11 *t/16 +x) +
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162* exp( 3 *t/2 + 2 * x) - 188*exp( 13 *t/16 + 3 *x)+
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162* exp( t/8 + 4 *x)- 45* exp( 13* t/8 + 4 * x)-
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18* exp( 15*t/16 + 5 * x) - 5*exp(t/4 + 6 *x) )/
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( 8* (- exp( 11*t/16) + 3*exp(x)- 3* exp(13 *t/16+ 2* x)+
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exp( t/8+ 3*x))^2):
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kdv(q3):
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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simplify(""): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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seq(nextprime(i),i=1..3000): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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itm:=itm+1:st:=time():
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integrate(1/( 1+x ^15),x): time():tm[itm]:="-st;
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[seq( tm[i], i=1..8 ) ];
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============================================================================
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--
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Jacques Ge'linas, Ph.D., Maths, INTERNET: gelinas@cmr.ca
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Colle`ge Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean,
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Que'bec, Canada, J0J 1R0.
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.)
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:05:58 GMT
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Andrew Robert Ellsworth (are1@ritz.cec.wustl.edu) wrote:
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: I've -heard- of many people overclocking Intel DX2-66's as well, and even went
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: so far as to contact some fellow overseas (via the net of course) who was
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: running his at 80 MHz. I have a DX2-66 (SL enhanced, if that matters -- but
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: it still runs at 5 volts) and a clock-selectable motherboard (25,33,40,50).
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: I'd -like- to be able to get a >20% increase in speed by moving a jumper, but
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: my main concern is the operaing temperature of the chip. The way my MB is set
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: up, I have room for about a 3/8" high heat sink on the chip, but a CPU fan
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: blocks three of my ISA slots (excellent engineering...), so I rigged a CPU fan
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: to blow -across- my heat sink, which is better than nothing at all. Unlike
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: my friend's P60, which will fry eggs, I can -just barely- keep my finger on my
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: heat sink without it getting too hot to touch. I'm just wondering if I can
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: keep my chip within specs (assuming it doesn't kill it right off the bat) with
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: the jig-rigged cooling setup I've got now.
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: Anyone have any input on this?
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Perhaps one of those Peltier Junction devices would fit?
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Just a thought.
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--
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"This is a UNIX system.... I _know_ this...."
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- what's her name, from "Jurassic Park"
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Hardware Compatability Guide for linux?
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:20:48 GMT
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Pete Stromberg (pez@eo.se) wrote:
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: Hi!
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: I'm planning to by a PC to run linux on.
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: 1. I understand that there exists a guide on which hardware I can
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: use with linux.
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: 2. I'd also like some options on where to buy a good linux-bundle.
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: On CD prefferably. Opinions on shich one is the best are appreciated.
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: 3. Also it would be nice to receive a FAQ for the linux groups. So
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: that a posting such as this one shouldn't be sent by me again, wasting
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: bandwidth.
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: Many TIA!
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: /Pete aka _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/
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: _/ _/ _/ _/
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: _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/
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: _/ _/ _/
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: _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/
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Well, you must have overlooked the continuously posted message on this
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and just about every other Linux group with the catchy title:
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*** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***
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This posting will guide to to all sorts of FAQs, HOWTOs, and other info.
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Your school crossing guard says: Look before posting! :)
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--
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Tyrannasaurus Rex can't be all bad.... After all, he ate the lawyer!
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com
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From: rahardj@cc.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: ez (was Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?)
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 15:31:45 GMT
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davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
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:rahardj@cc.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
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: : Who about Andrew's "ez" ? I think that's what you want.
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:It is X only. I think Linux needs something more general for non-X
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:terminals. I spend 90% of my time using MS-Kermit connected via a dialup
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:line. I imagine that I am not alone.
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Of course that's correct if you are looking for *text editor*
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(like your jed). I thought the thread is on *word processor*, no ?
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Beside there is NO WYSIWYG *wordprocessor* for text-only terminal,
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since by definition it won't do WYSIWYG.
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Of course there are zillions of text editors...
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-- budi
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 11:14:22 +0100
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From: kkeyte@esoc.bitnet (Karl Keyte)
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Reply-To: kkeyte@esoc.bitnet
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Subject: Re: X News-reader for LinuX
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>James Logajan (jamesl@jamesl.slip.netcom.com) wrote:
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>I pulled the sources for both xvnews and xrn. I could not get xvnews to
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>post, even though I liked its layout better than xrn. Both xvnews and xrn
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>allow sorting of subject lines, ignoring the "re:" stuff which gives a
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>certain amount of threading.
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I found that with one of our NNTP servers there was a problem with
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the message size sent by xvnews. I patched the source to be a bit
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more gentle, and all works fine now. Note that the later versions of
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xvnews (2.2, patch 1 or newer) allow sorting on subject which also
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provides quite a reasonable way of threading messages.
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Let me know if you need the patched source.
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Karl
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Vitrociset S.p.A. Tel : +(49) 6151 902041
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European Space Agency Fax : +(49) 6151 904041
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From: craig@tanuki.twics.com
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: 10 Oct 94 17:26:38 JST
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In article <36ttu7$dqq@infoserv.rug.ac.be>, pruyss@nessy.rug.ac.be (Piet Ruyssinck) writes:
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> Nick Kralevich (nickkral@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
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> : Greetings.
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> : I'm attempting to find a word processor for Linux.
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> stop attempting, install TeX/LaTeX
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> : One that will allow me to create reports
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> LaTeX does that
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> : and type up documents.
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> LaTeX does that
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--
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This is an ongoing debate. If a text editor + LaTeX is a
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viable alternative to a standard word processor like MS Word in
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an office environment, then there needs to be some way to share
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documents with other platforms. We use RTF to share between
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Mac/Windows. If software for Linux can't do this, then it
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should be able to read it plain text and translate the
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"lf" characters. In the case of a Mac, this is ^M.
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MS Word can search and replace the unix "lf" character so that
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text files written on a Linux machine can be displayed on a
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Mac or Windows machine.
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I think it can be acceptable to translate a formatted document on
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one platform to plain text to be formatted on another platform.
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However, thus far, I have been unable to get a Linux text editor like
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emacs to do a search and replace of the ^M lf character.
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Looking at what I have written thus far, I noticed that I have
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gone off the subject of this thread. Sorry about that. Seeing
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this discussion kind of made me remember my own efforts in trying
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to use a Linux machine to produce nicely formatted text in a
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cross-platform environment. Actually, if anyone has advice, I
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would appreciate it. Feel free to send me e-mail.
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Craig Oda craig@twics.com
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==============================================
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TWICS co., ltd Japan's First Public Internet Connection
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IEC/Nichbei Kaiwa Gakuin, 1-21 Yotsuya Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 Japan
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telnet twics.com or 192.135.222.3
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twics@twics.com tel:+ 81-3-3351-5977 fax:+81-3-3353-6096
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From: hchiu@utdallas.edu (Hao Chiu)
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Subject: Man page program source code
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 07:49:03 GMT
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Hi there!
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Does anyone know where I would find simple source code to write a man page
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program that would run on both unix and linux? I am trying to learn how the
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ins and outs of reformatting and displaying text. Thanks!
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Sincerely,
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Howard C
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--
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Dept of Electrical Engineering Is infinity really infinity?
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University of Texas at Dallas Is there order in every Chaos?
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hchiu@utdallas.edu Better ask my grandma sometime..
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From: tal@st-andrews.ac.uk (Timothy Andrew Lister)
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Subject: Re: RFD: comp.os.linux reorganization
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 10:38:42 GMT
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In article <1994Oct8.193632.2912@koma.han.de>,
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Kai Dupke <dupke@koma.han.de> wrote:
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>Dave Sill (de5@sws5.CTD.ORNL.GOV) wrote:
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>: REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
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>: 5) Group: comp.os.linux.video (unmoderated)
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>I don't know, if 'dosemu' is right here in c.o.l.video.
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>I think there should be a system-group for dosemo, elf, coff, icbs, wine(?).
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>
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>Gruss kai, dupke@koma.han.de
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I think wine has it's own newsgroup (comp.sys.emulators.wine ?) so there
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dosen't seem much point in including it under the comp.os.linux.*
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heirarchy as I don't think there will be enough Linux specific
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material to warrant it here.
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As for the rest, how about comp.os.linux.emulators ?
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I think that comp.os.linux.video would be a good step forward, as it
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was by far the most difficult part for me when I first installed.
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Tim Lister
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--
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The secret of success in Maths: "Plagiarize. Plagiarize, let no one's work evade
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your eyes, but remember all of the time to call it... research" - Tom Lehrer.
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GS(A&A) -p+ c++++ l++ u++ e++ m+(-) s++/ !n(+) h+(*) f+ g+ w+(+++) t+
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r+(++) y? (finger hayden@vax1.mankato.msus.edu to get translation)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: GCC for the ARM6
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 12:29:05 GMT
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In article <374oh8$fje@j51.com> fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk) writes:
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>Maybe. I am not familiar with ARM. But I saw some ARM supports in gcc
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>and gas+binutils.
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gcc produces diabolically bad ARM code prior to 2.6.x which will allegedly
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cure this. The arm has a bizarre and 'truely risc' architecture with each
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instruction having a condition code (normally set to 'always') but can be
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things like NE, EQ etc. Thus you can do some neat optimisations avoiding
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jumps breaking pipelines if your compiler is smart.
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Alan
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--
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..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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From: cmac@skull.dcn.ed.ac.uk (Colin MacDonald)
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Subject: /etc/ptmp
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 12:15:49 GMT
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When a non-root user tries to change a password, they get a "can't open /etc/
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ptmp, can't update password" error. How do I sort this?? I'm using a
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slackware distribution updated to v1.1.45, but I suspect it's a version
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independent permissions thing or something of the sort.
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Many thanks in advance,
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Colin MacDonald
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Colin MacDonald | # . | # . | #
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Department of Clinical Neurosciences | # . | #
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Edinburgh University | #
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From: koppenas@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
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Subject: Re: WARNING: Xfree-3.1 XF86_Mach32 may damage non-green monitors!
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 11:00:21 GMT
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In article <QUINLAN.94Oct10093006@freya.yggdrasil.com> quinlan@freya.yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
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Xref: news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de comp.os.linux.misc:28773
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Path: news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!barrnet.net!freya.yggdrasil.com!news
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From: quinlan@freya.yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
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Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 16:30:05 GMT
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Organization: Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
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Lines: 38
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References: <KOPPENAS.94Oct10111020@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Reply-To: quinlan@yggdrasil.com
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NNTP-Posting-Host: freya.barrnet.net
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Andreas Koppenhoefer <koppenas@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
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> While running 'startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach32 :0 -bpp 16' and
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> about 10 minutes of inactivity the screensaver blanked out my
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> screen. And surprisingly my monitor went into powersaving mode.
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> That's exactly what I want to get.
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>
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> But... I've never enabled any powersaving option!
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Linux automatically blanks the screen. Your monitor evidently picks
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up on this and goes into powersaving mode.
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`setterm -blank 15' will set your monitor for a 15 minute period
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instead of a 10 minute one.
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That's only true while NOT running X. Linux console driver blanks my
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screen correctly while displaying a console screen. But with X on
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display the X-screensaver determines blanking behaviour and not the
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console driver!
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> While running 'startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach32 :0 -bpp16'
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> (which is a 8-bit server -bpp 8) my monitor doesn't switch to
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> powersaving mode while screensaver is active!? Why not?
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Who knows?
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> And here's the problem: What if my monitor wouldn't like powersaving
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> signals? I suppose *NON-GREEN*MONITORS*MAY*GET*DAMAGED* by this
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> behavior!
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You're being silly. now. Please read the manual page for `setterm'.
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*flame on*
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And please read all prime XFree manual pages before flaming someone else!
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*flame off*
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However, it might be considered odd that your monitor goes into
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powersaving mode for 16 bit and not 8 bit modes.
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Please don't post a hysterical warning unless you're sure. Better
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yet, never post a hysterical warning -- it is is true, people can get
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hysterical without too much help.
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I'm *sure*!
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Well, what's better: posting warnings or the possibility of blowing
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several monitors?
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- Andreas
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--
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Andreas Koppenhoefer, Student der Universitaet Stuttgart, BR Deutschland
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prefered languages: German, English, C, perl ("Just another Perl hacker,")
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SMTP: koppenh@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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privat: Belaustr. 5/3, D-70195 Stuttgart, Germany,
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Earth, Sector ZZ9 plural Z alpha
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phone: +49 711 696378 and +49 711 694111 (19-22h MEZ=GMT+1)
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Crossposted-To: alt.fan.linus-torvalds
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: Newbies? (was Re: Hmmm)
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 09:10:48 GMT
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Followup to: <379p9q$9ak@ccnet.ccnet.com>
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By author: stevenl@ccnet.com (A computer genius)
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In newsgroup: alt.fan.linus-torvalds
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>
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> Don't got me beat. Thats when I started too. (And yes, it is 1.0.8. I
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> think slackware is still in that one, even with 2.0)
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>
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I'm pretty sure Slackware 2.0 is 1.0.9. (Me: 1.1.50 at home, 1.1.52
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at work.)
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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