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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: Thu, 13 Oct 94 13:13:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #930
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Linux-Misc Digest #930, Volume #2 Thu, 13 Oct 94 13:13:12 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: XFree86-3.1 binaries incomplete at tsx-11.mit.edu (Comrad Cramer)
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Re: X vs non-X users? (John William Chambless)
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dip and Xylogics annex (dynamic SLIP) help needed (Daniel Damon Roscigno)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Andrew Whyte)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Andrew Whyte)
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800x600 Xconfig settings (news)
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Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Newbies? (was Re: Hmmm) (Tim Cutts)
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Driver for Adaptec PCMCIA Card (Ted Wolf Jr)
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Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
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Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be (Schultz, Russell)
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Linux on a IBM PS/2 (Carlos Irigaray)
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Re: dumb terminal just prints ansi codes, doesn't use them. (Phil Homewood)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Terry Lambert)
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Re: "more" quit working. HELP!!! (Greck Cannon)
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Re: LOCAL: Meeting for Linux Enthusiasts in Atlanta (Mark Buffington)
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 20:30:07 GMT
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In article <wcreator.781703229@kaiwan009>,
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Steven M. Doyle <wcreator@kaiwan.com> wrote:
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>In <jeffpkCxEDBn.L24@netcom.com> jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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>
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>>In article <wcreator.781683125@kaiwan009>,
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>>Steven M. Doyle <wcreator@kaiwan.com> wrote:
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>>>In <longyearCxDDpJ.H2C@netcom.com> longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear) writes:
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>>>I am somewhat confused on this issue. What exactly is multi-threaded? And
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>>>are multi-threaded and multi-user mutually exclusive?
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>
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>
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>Ahhh, I see :) People are always throwing the fact that OS/2 is a
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>"multi-threading" operating system -- I never saw the point... I would
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>think that there's not much of an advantage. Oh, well... :)
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Unfortunately, the term 'threading' is kind of used freely for both kinds
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of multi-tasking. In addition,one coudl proboly call a system like the
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Mac our current Windows, where there are multiple thrads of control but
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no pre-emption or time slicing (also called "cooperative multi-tasking") a
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multi-threaded, though not really a true multi-tasking system
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Os/2 for what its worth is most linke UNIX of any of the other DOS
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repalcements. It too provides a true pre-emptive time-sliced
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multi-tasking system. (I don't know if 'light weight multi-tasking' is
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supported by teh system libraries or not...)
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We use our own light-weight multi-tasking system for our games where I
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work (Crystal Dynamics). The advantages are that LWT (or 'threading') is
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more efficient when switching between threads of control, and that all
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threads can access the same memory. This last is also its greatest
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weakness.. if different programs were allowed to access the same memory
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then one program's malfunction could cause a different one to
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inexplicably crash. This is why both UNIX and OS/2 provide full
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multi-tasking at the system level.
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From: cramer@catt.ncsu.edu (Comrad Cramer)
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Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 binaries incomplete at tsx-11.mit.edu
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 22:10:42 GMT
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cew@metlab4.met.fsu.edu (C. Eric Williford) writes:
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>I downloaded the Linux XFree86-3.1 binaries from tsx-11.mit.edu and
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>noticed (disappointedly) that the XF86-3.1.lib tar file is truncated.
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>Therefore, some of the shared library files are missing and I can't
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>seem to get this file from any other site. Could someone please
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>upload the complete file or put it on an anonymous ftp site and
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>let me know where it is? I'd love to test XFree-3.1.
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>
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>Eric Williford
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>cew@met.fsu.edu
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That files is corrupt on every one of the listed sites from XFree86.org.
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I took the liberty of downloading it from ftp.XFree86.org and it is complete.
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As XFree86.org is rather swamped -- it took me over an hour to get in -- so
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you can give nastromo.catt.ncsu.edu a try, but I cannot promise any speed;
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it is a 486DX50 w/4megs (at present.)
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--cramer
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= jfbeam@tx.ncsu.edu NCSU College of Textiles =
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= jfbeam@eos.ncsu.edu NCSU College of Engineering =
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= jfbeam@axposf.ps.dec.com Alpha OSF/1 Development System (DEC) =
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= cramer@catt.ncsu.edu NCSU Computer and Technologies Theme Program =
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= 414E Wood, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 512-4653 =
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= 2600 Royster Rd., Shelby, NC 28150-2889 (704) 538-9060 =
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From: chambles@whale.st.usm.edu (John William Chambless)
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Subject: Re: X vs non-X users?
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 17:51:51 -0500
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In article <371n5g$pn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
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Charles Blair <ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
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> This leads to a more general question. I wonder whether we are
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>approaching the point where software for the two kinds of linux/unix
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>users will split the group. I can't suggest any particular fix.
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>As a matter of curiosity, I wonder what the X/non-X ratio is.
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Well, for me, a big attraction of Linux in the first place was
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to be able to run X.
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There may eventually be a need for a special Linuix/XFree group,
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soince there seem to be quite a few questions on that combination.
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--
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* Billy Chambless University of Southern Mississippi
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* "IBM is not a necessary evil. IBM is not necessary." -- Ted Nelson
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From: ddr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Daniel Damon Roscigno)
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Subject: dip and Xylogics annex (dynamic SLIP) help needed
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 14:04:11 GMT
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I am attempting to setup Slip to a Xylogics annex. Everything
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goes fine until the annex replies with
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Annex address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Your address is yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
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at thgis point dip hangs. I have the lines:
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get $remote Annex address is
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get $local Your address is
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in the dip script and am expecting dip to find the address
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from the annex output and then continue with the script. Does
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anyone have a working script that they could share?
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Dan.
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From: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Andrew Whyte)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 23:34:14 GMT
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Daniel Zappala (daniel@isi.edu) wrote:
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>In article <370rc5$o7q@crl.crl.com>, rigor@crl.com (Sam Brown) writes:
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>> picked up a dx-2-80 amd, works great. $210 was my cost $320 w/green vlb
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>> motherboard. extremely stable and fast
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>>
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>I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
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>486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
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Woah there!!!
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The idea of a DX2 chip is an _internal_ clock double. IT uses some devices
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to double the externl clock frequency, and the chip is designed for it....
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It order to get a DX-40 to _go_ at 80Mhz you will need an external speed of
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80Mhz which is currently not available, and besides doing this to the chip
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would definatly fry it :)
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I have a AMD DX-40 myself, and I changed to clock selector of the mother
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board from 40Mhz to 50Mhz
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, and now I have a DX-50 :) and without any glitches or over heating :) (I
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also have always had a cpu cooler fan on it though :)
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SO in basic answer to your question, No you can't. You will need a new chip
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to do what you want.. But i would suggest you try the 50Mhz idea, it
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increase all system aspects by 25% :) I'm happy.
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>Daniel
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--
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Andrew Whyte, | Email: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au
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Bachelor of Info. Tech. | whytea@jasper.cqu.edu.au
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Central Queensland University | whytea@topaz.cqu.edu.au
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===================================IRC: Holo, Holodeck,Cry===================
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From: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Andrew Whyte)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 23:35:49 GMT
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Daniel Zappala (daniel@isi.edu) wrote:
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>In article <372tuk$1el@huron.eel.ufl.edu>, acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
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>> In article <371kim$emf@venera.isi.edu>, Daniel Zappala <daniel@isi.edu> wrote:
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>> >
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>> >In article <370rc5$o7q@crl.crl.com>, rigor@crl.com (Sam Brown) writes:
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>> >
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>> >I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
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>> >486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
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>>
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>> Nope, sorry... the dx/2 chips are different inside (have a PLL circuit
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>> to double their on-chip clock, and extra interface logic to hook up to
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>> the half-speed external bus), and of course you can't very well modify
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>> a silicon die after it's been made!
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>>
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>But doesn't Intel sell a chip that upgrades a 486DX-33 into a 486DX2-66?
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>How do they manage that?
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Its probably a confusing add which is really selling you either a DX2-66
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overdrive or a DX2-66 straight cpu.
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>Daniel
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--
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=============================================================================
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Andrew Whyte, | Email: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au
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Bachelor of Info. Tech. | whytea@jasper.cqu.edu.au
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Central Queensland University | whytea@topaz.cqu.edu.au
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===================================IRC: Holo, Holodeck,Cry===================
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From: news@marinbbs.simenv.com (news)
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Subject: 800x600 Xconfig settings
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 22:58:45 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ]
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[ Author was news ]
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[ Posted on Sun, 9 Oct 1994 22:57:00 GMT ]
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I've got 1024x768 working fine, but can't seem to get the 800x600 clocks
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working right. Am using Tseng 4000 and a ViewSonic 6e.
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If anyone can suggest the proper (or recommended) clocks, I'd be
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appreciative.
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Mahalo
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Ron Pellegrino
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Kailua, HI
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 18:09:24 GMT
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In article <37eie2$c7h@news.utdallas.edu>,
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Christopher A Chambers <cchamber@utdallas.edu> wrote:
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>Yan Xiao (yxiao@umabnet.ab.umd.edu) wrote:
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>
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>: 3. Plug-and-Play, no-plug, no-play: waning CD-ROM can be a challenge
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>: We didn't install everything (has anyone?), thus we picked
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>: packages we wanted from control-panel. Guess what, we still
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>: have pointers to CD-ROM, such as /usr/X386/lib/libX11*.
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> I encountered this problem also, and I did install the packages from the
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> CD onto disk, all that needed to be done is the moving of some links..
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> The only thing that bugs me about the package, is on the back of the
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> users guide, harware compatability list, it sows that the NCR chips
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> are experimental, which my chip, the 53c7xx (53c700-66) is listed,
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> but I can't get anything at all to work on my SCSI bus. I've even
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well, thats why its experimental! :)
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As I understand it, the 'experimental' designation is for drivers that
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Yygdrasil has acquired but been unable to properly tst. They are
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included 'at your own risk' as a courtesy by Yygdrasil
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(NOTE; This is just my impression. I don not, nor have I ever worked for
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Yygdrasil.)
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> recompiled the driver with debug information turned on, and rebuilt the
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> kernal (I can do all this since the Yggdrasil CD supports my 1.8gig HD
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> from DOS Bios callbacks), still to no avail. I've found that where
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> other plain slackware distributions wouldn't work, at least I can
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> get a system up and running with Yggdrasil.
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I'm glad to hear that you got the DOS callbacks running, as I've
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suggested it as a solution to a number of people with 'chicken&egg'
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problems, but have never actually used it myself. I woudl suspect your
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x-freeze problem is becuase it has to drop out of protected mode, and
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thus all multi-tasking ceases, when it talks to the drive. Thats just my
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guess, but if it is ture I'm not sure that there is a good solution
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(except to get your proper driver working...)
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>The only problem with the
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> DOS Bios access of my harddrive, occurs while I am in X, then everytime
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> the HD accesses, the mouse locks for one minute. I can fix it by CTRL-ALT
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> F4, then ALT F5, but it really gets annoying.. So If someone can please help
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> me out.. I need a new driver for the NCR53c700-66 (Or Forex line of VLB
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> SCSI cards)
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From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts)
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Crossposted-To: alt.fan.linus-torvalds
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Subject: Re: Newbies? (was Re: Hmmm)
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 16:36:45 GMT
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we47932@vub.ac.be (Starblood) writes:
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>(ccnet.ccnet.com>
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>Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium
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>Distribution:
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>What are you guys talking about?? I think nobody will beat me. My first
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>linux system will probably be Slackware 5.0. That will probably be the
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>first release that supports the IBM PS/2 architecture :(.
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Well, look on the bright side. You're using the only architecture
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that'll run OS/2 properly, so fair's fair. :-)
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Tim.
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--
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194, Vinery Rd, Cambridge, CB1 3DS, UK (+44) 223 572622
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http://mole.bio.cam.ac.uk/~tjrc1/
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From: pp000081@interramp.com (Ted Wolf Jr)
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Subject: Driver for Adaptec PCMCIA Card
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 23:29:30 GMT
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Does anyone have a driver for the Adaptec Slim Scsi PCMCIA card. It
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works great under UGH! DOS/Windows with my portable CD-Rom(Nec 3xp). But
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I would reazlly rather run under Linux(1.38)
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Ted Wolf wolft@dbisna.com
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Thx
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: dnb@orgland.ru (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 23:18:17 GMT
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Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@freya.yggdrasil.com) writes:
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> Yan Xiao <yxiao@umabnet.ab.umd.edu> writes:
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> > 2. More than you asked for: 'more' behaves strangely: in console
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> > (non-X), you'll get segmentation fault. in X's xterm, you'll
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> > have trouble scrolling. The problem also affects 'appropos'.
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> We are unable to reproduce a segmentation fault. It is always
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> possible that the copy you are running has been corrupted.
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> Meanwhile, I might suggest trying `less'.
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It seems that the problem is in termcap entry length.
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Command ``more'' has limit to termcap entry equal to 1024 (Macro TBUFSIZ
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in more.c). If You increase this value ``more'' will run OK.
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From: schultz_russell@semail.jsc.nasa.gov (Schultz, Russell)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Overlaid swap files (was Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 13:56:38 GMT
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In article <MLM.94Oct12223517@aruba.cs.brown.edu>
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mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter) writes:
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> Jeff> instaleld all m ystuff from the commadn lien and so far
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> Jeff> haven't found anything thatw asn't loaded ('course again, i
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> Jeff> don't use X...)
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> I installed Linux from the Yggdrasil Fall 94 CD on a Packard-Bell
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> 486SX33, with 8MB. When prompted for a swap partition, I declined to
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> specify one, since I planned to set one up later, "on top of" my
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^^^^^^^^^^^
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> windows swap file. I attempted to install some of the software from
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Ooooga ooooga! How to do this? and can OS/2 share the same space? It
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really stinks having 3 swap files.
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I'd be excited, closer to ecstatic.
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Russ
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From: cirigara@nova.umd.edu (Carlos Irigaray)
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Subject: Linux on a IBM PS/2
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 20:15:45 -0400
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Hi, does anyone know how to create a "boot disk" and a "root disk" as in
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the Slackware distribution?
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I'm using Slackware 2.0.1 and my runnning kernel is 1.1.52 (I've compiled
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it). What I need is to make those diskettes from my system because then I
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should be able to have my IBM PS/2 booting. (the new kernel support the
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MCA architecture!)
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Thanks for the help!
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| Carlos Irigaray - cirigara@nova.umd.edu - carlosi@iadb.org |
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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
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Subject: Re: dumb terminal just prints ansi codes, doesn't use them.
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 10:26:18 +1000
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zachary brown (zbrown@lynx.dac.neu.edu) wrote:
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: Hi. I recently set up a dumb terminal, and I can log in just fine and
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: run programs, but anything using ansi codes to control the screen, just
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: prints the ansi code instead of updating the screen. So ls, clear, joe,
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: and a whole bunch of others are broken. Is this familiar to anyone?
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Yes - your terminal doesn't support ANSI.
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Find out what terminal emulation it DOES do... and change the line in
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inittab (?) to reflect this.
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(or just type 'export TERM=whatever' when you log in...)
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Phil.
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--
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
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APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
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"We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms"
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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 00:16:46 GMT
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In article <MICHAELV.94Oct4095313@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
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] This should be taken with a large bucket of salt, however (as Terry
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] Lambert points out), since none of the systems have had an official
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] POSIX verification suite run on them.
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Actually, VSX (the X/Open POSIX validation suite) and NIST/PCTS (the
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American National Institute of Standards and Technology POSIX validation
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suite) have been run against FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux.
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Conformance and use of the POSIX tradmark have more to do with the
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process of getting the tests run by an official lab and branded by X/Open
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or NIST than they have to do with how the OS's did in the tests.
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For those who care, the order from least exceptions to most exceptions
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was NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux for NIST and Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD for VSX.
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I didn't run the tests, I don't have that kind of money; so don't
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pester me. 8-).
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None of them passed with less than 35/49 exceptions in either run.
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If someone wants to kick $50,000 out for a lab certification *after*
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fixing all the exceptions -- $150,000 for the testbed -- be my guest.
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Of course this is all irrelevent since none of the three groups constitute
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a legal entity that can entery into contracts. And without Spec 1170
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having been ratified, UNIX branding (the most interesting one) still
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requires going through the old branding processs -- ie: licensing and
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using SVR4 sources.
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It's stupid to argue about standards conformance when all one side can
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say is "Oh Yeah?" and all the other side can say is "Yeah!" and neither
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side can do anything about the challenge "put up or shut up"...
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except "shut up".
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Terry Lambert
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terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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or previous employers.
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From: greck@scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu (Greck Cannon)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: "more" quit working. HELP!!!
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 13:21:51 GMT
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Tony Schwartz (tony@teleport.com) wrote in article <<tony.128.0016EE71@teleport.com>>:
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> Recently my 'more' program quit working. I have tried several things with no
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> success. When I type 'more filename', it simply goes to the next line. When
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Are you running xdm? On machines running slackware 2.0.1+xdm, more goes haywire.
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It starts buffering about 5 chars before if actually does anything with them, and
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then processes them all at once. Unless I'm mistaken, more uses ncurses to do it's
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work, and therein I believe lies the problem.
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> I say "ls >more" I get a broken pipe error.
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This won't work on any machine. more is a pipe. Try "ls | more".
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^
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a pipe
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-greck
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p.s. quick solution: use less.
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--
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Greck S. Cannon \ [He's] only bitter on the outside--inside
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sophomore CSC major \ he's got creamy nougat.
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greck@ \ -Slappy Squirrel
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scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu \
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set your URL to http://www.catt.ncsu.edu
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From: idmrmb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Mark Buffington)
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Crossposted-To: git.general,git.cc.general,atl.general
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Subject: Re: LOCAL: Meeting for Linux Enthusiasts in Atlanta
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 09:31:03 -0400
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rstory@crl.com (Robert Story) writes:
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>In article <newcombe.861.00634289@aa.csc.peachnet.edu>,
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>newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) wrote:
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>:In article <ann-26066.781969668@cs.cornell.edu> vernard@cc.gatech.edu
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>(Vernard C. Martin) writes:
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>:>You are all cordially invited to come and join the first meeting of the
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>:>unofficial Georgia Tech Linux Enthusiast Organization on Wednesday October
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>:>12th at 5pm at the Georgia Tech College of Computing in Room 201. All
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>:>students, faculty, staff, and others are welcome to attend.
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>:
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>:(also a little more advanced notice would be nice :)
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>: -Dan
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>Ditto on the advanced notice... did it go well enought that you expect to
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>have another meeting?
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>| Robert Story | PEI FAQ maintainer |#include <std/disclaimer.h>|
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The meeting was a huge success. The room was full and a large number of
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very experienced *nix folks showed up to talk and participate. Vernard
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ran the event and I must say that he is the best at making a presentation
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lively and interesting. He mentioned that he had sent out the notices for
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the Linux meeting last week, but on the moderated groups there had been
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some delays in the posting showing up.
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The next meeting of the Atlanta Unix Users Group will be devoted to Linux
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and a subgroup may be formed out of that organization for the Linux types.
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This will be a really good meeting also so I hope to see y'all there.
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Mark..
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