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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, 14 Sep 94 11:14:16 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #757
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Linux-Misc Digest #757, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 11:14:16 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support (Dances With Geeks)
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Re: iBCS and WP51 (James Lewis Nance)
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Re: Sunsite is down! Cause: Linuxdoom? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ? (Dan Pop)
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Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (Dan Pop)
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Re: VHDL for Linux...? (Naresh Sharma)
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Re: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ? (Peter Hahn)
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Re: Apple Select 360 w/ Linux?? (Sven Goldt)
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Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: What about a votr on comp.os.linux.doom (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Max size of SCSI HD? (Drew Eckhardt)
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Re: Horrific bug in DOOM! (Kevin Lentin)
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Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI v (Anselm Lingnau)
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Partitioning suggestions? (Srikanth Viswanathan)
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Qlogic Fast!SCSI ISA Support? (Greg Badros)
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HYDRA - serial bidirectional transfer for Linux? (Holger Muenx)
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Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors (Alan Cox)
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Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Alan Cox)
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Registering in general (was Re: Registering Linux Doom) (Darin Johnson)
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Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses? (Jay Ashworth)
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From: lilo@slip-13-15.ots.utexas.edu (Dances With Geeks)
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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Subject: Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 11:55:35 GMT
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On Sun, 11 Sep 1994 20:12:08 GMT, Matt Welsh (mdw@cs.cornell.edu) wrote:
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> In article <34tilt$kkj@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> lilo@slip-1-72.ots.utexas.edu (Dances With Geeks) writes:
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> >On Thu, 8 Sep 1994 14:22:06 GMT, Matt Welsh (mdw@cs.cornell.edu) wrote:
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> >> Sorry, but you're stuck with the "GNU approach" (whatever that means)
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> >> because you use software and libraries covered by the GPL. Any "problems"
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> >> perceived with GNU software applies equally to Linux.
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> >
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> >Sorry, but you're wrong. The Linux kernel, for example, adds additional
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> >disclaimers which modify the GNU-format license it is used under.
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> Those "disclaimers" don't relieve the fundamental problems that
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> people perceive with the GPL, namely, the fact that (a) source
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> mustg be provided, and (b) modifications must be copylefted as
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> well.
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> M. Welsh
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Um, perhaps you weren't listening. Someone may see the problems you listed
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as fundamental problems; not all of us do. Some of us see the "fundamental
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problems as being elsewhere, and having been addressed by the additional
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disclaimers.... ;)
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Oh, BTW, these arguments might go on less interminably if everyone adopted a
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less confrontational style. ;)
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lilo
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From: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (James Lewis Nance)
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Subject: Re: iBCS and WP51
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 12:05:14 GMT
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Reply-To: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (James Lewis Nance)
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Sunsite is down! Cause: Linuxdoom?
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 04:10:22 GMT
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In article <350jjl$8dm@news.ysu.edu> s0017210@cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene) writes:
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> with the crash? If someone wants a good indication of how many
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> people are using Linux I would guess the ftp logs from sunsite
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> for the past couple of days would be a good indication!
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I've seen this idea mentioned before. Just for the record, some of us
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running Linux actually have no intention of ever FTPing DOOM.
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So I think it would give you a good count of people running Linux with
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time on their hands to play games, perhapse, but not a complete count of
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Linux users.
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ?
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 12:03:43 GMT
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In <deuelpm.63.2E7669B9@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Pete Deuel) writes:
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>In article <ESLER.94Sep12153910@kanangra.ch.hp.com> esler@ch.hp.com (Kevin Esler) writes:
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>>From: esler@ch.hp.com (Kevin Esler)
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>>Subject: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ?
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>>Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 19:39:10 GMT
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>
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>>Does anybody have any benchmark figures on the relative raw CPU
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>>performance of:
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>> 486/dx2-66
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>> Pentium 60
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>> Pentium 66
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>> Pentium 90
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>Yup. Check the mini-howto on "BogoMips" P5-90 gateway (for us) is 36.08,
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>which toasts nearly everything else... Check it out; it's on sunsite...
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Since when is BogoMips a benchmark relevant for anything else than
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waiting loops?
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Dan
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--
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Dan Pop
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CERN, CN Division
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Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
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Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 12:12:02 GMT
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In <1994Sep13.154520.26796@taylor.infi.net> mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:
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>Why does it have to be native?? Keep in mind that it is utterly futile to
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>expect a native version of WP for Linux.... I T W I L L N O T H A P P E N
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Trying to predict the future is not a particularly smart thing. Who knows
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who will be the next owner of WP and what its policy WRT porting to
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Linux (or whatever free OS) might be? Even Novell could change its mind...
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Dan
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--
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Dan Pop
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CERN, CN Division
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Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
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Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.lsi.cad,comp.lang.vhdl
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From: nash@dutllu4.gmd.de (Naresh Sharma)
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Subject: Re: VHDL for Linux...?
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Reply-To: Naresh.Sharma@LR.TUDelft.NL
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 09:16:24 GMT
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ADA (ada@nic.cerf.net) wrote:
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: Hi all...
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: This primarily addresses the circuits community...
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: I have been playing (or trying to play) with both magic and ocean. I
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: was wondering if there are any free VHDL simulators available or being
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: worked on for Linux. If so, what about synthesis tools?
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: If I'm asking something outrageous, please tell me so...
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: While I'm on the subject, and I know this isn't the proper group but I
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: know there are a lot of hardware weenies out there like me, is there
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: an emacs major mode for VHDL floating around?
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: Thanks in advance,
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: Mark
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: (lever@ada.com)
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Try to send a mail to info@fintronic.com, they claim to have the best VHDL
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tools :-)
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--
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Naresh Sharma [N.Sharma@LR.TUDelft.NL] Herenpad 28 __|__
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Faculty of Aerospace Engineering 2628 AG Delft \_______(_)_______/
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T U Delft Optimists designed the aeroplane, ! ! !
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Ph(Work) (+31)15-783992 pessimists designed the parachute!
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Ph(Home) (+31)15-569636 Plan:Design Airplanes on Linux the best OS on Earth!
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==============================PGP=KEY=AVAILABLE================================
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From: Peter@tequila.oche.de (Peter Hahn)
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Subject: Re: 486/dx2-66 vs P60 vs P66 vs P90 ?
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 10:51:13 GMT
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esler@ch.hp.com (Kevin Esler) writes:
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>Does anybody have any benchmark figures on the relative raw CPU
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>performance of:
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486/dx2-66 32 SpecInt 16 SpecFP
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486dx4-100 52 " 24 "
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Pentium 60 58 " 51 "
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Pentium 66 64 " 57 "
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Pentium 90 86 " 77 "
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>I am planning to purchase a system and it seems like the price
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>difference between the 486/dx2-66 and the P66 is about $300, and about
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>another $300 difference to get to the P90. I'm trying to allocate my
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>$ resources in the best way possible.
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>I realize that system performance depends on more than just CPU
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>performance, by the way.
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SpecInt is a measurement of the integer performance, SpecFp does the
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same for the foating point dpt.
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The Spec Benchmark are run in an UNIX/Posix environment and include
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various real-world applications. So they measure the memory and I/O
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performance, too. But as the CPU vendors typically use lots of memory
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for good results, the CPU and memory interface seem to determine the
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result most.
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I think of the Spec suite as the closest measurment in terms of
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applicability to the use under Linux compared to the masses of
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DOS/Windows benchmarks with small 16Bit programms run in real mode
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(DOS fits into a large 2nd level cache).
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Peter
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Peter Hahn Peterstr. 26
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52062 Aachen Germany
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Peter@tequila.oche.de pch@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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Voice: +49 241 37151
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From: goldt@math.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
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Subject: Re: Apple Select 360 w/ Linux??
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 12:39:56 GMT
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Hendrik G. Seliger (hank@Kite.automat.uni-essen.de) wrote:
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: with my Linux system. This thing is totally software-controlled if you
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No,it has dip switches.
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: use it with DOS/MS-Windows. Does anyone know if I can controll this
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: thing from Linux? I guess I'd need some way of receiving the messages
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You can set the switches that it acts like a POSTSCRIPT printer.
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: BTW, would a HP-Laserjet 4MP be the better choice??
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Yes ! Much more compatible.
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--
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* # THE MOST IMPORTANT FINANCIAL QUESTION IS: Where is the money ? # *
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 04:27:10 GMT
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In article <1994Sep12.135123.9379@aqm.com> jgoddard@batman.rd.qms.com (Jim Goddard) writes:
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>Have to disagree with you on these two Ian. If the code does not
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>contain a copyright notice it is not copyrighted and you can use it at
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>will.
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I have to disagree with YOU, sorry. Thsi is a very dangerous, and untrue
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statement. (By way of crednetials, my folks have been freelance authors
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all their lives and have been officers, both of them, at various times of
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the American Society of Journalists and Authors. I practically grew-up
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with the concept of copyright, as that is what kept me fed!)
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Under the last copyright law revision, (passed sometiem in the 80s, I
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believe) a work is Copyright to its author as soon as it is created.
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There are only 2 ways in which this copyright can be lost. It can be
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signed away by the author, or, a special case, the work coudl have been
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done under a "work for hire" arrangement, in which case the author's
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employer owns that work. (Thsi is why, fellow programmers, your boss
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owns what you do at work.)
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What IS true is that without a copyright statement on your work, it is
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difficult to prove that the infringer knew the work was copyrighted. If
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you cannot prove this fact, you cannot go for punative damages. fro thsi
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reason it IS true that you should always put a copyright notice on your work.
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A side note, of use to programmers is that the following is NOT a valid
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copyright notice.
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(C)1993 FooBarCorp.
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This is because the law only recognizes two forms of the copyright mark,
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either the word 'Copyright' or a c in a cricle. Two braces does NOt
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constitute a circle. To be safe the form should always be as follows:
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Copyright 1993 FooBarCorp
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>To copyright the work after releaseing it without a copyright notice
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>the author has to notify the recipients. I.E. if you use it, you can't
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>be sued (thats not quite acurate you can be sued for anything) unless
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>you are notified that you are in copyright violation and given a chance
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>to stop first.
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Thats not really true, but has a kind of tangential reality to the poitn
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i brought up above.
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>I don't claim to be an expert on the subject but I have reistered
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>copyrights before
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For the record, registering a copyright is not necessary. Unlike a
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patent, a copyright exists whether the fact is registered with the
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government or not. By the same token, the government acceoting said
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registration says nothing abotu the validity of the copyright. All the
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government is providing in this case is an absolutely unimpeachable
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witness to the fact that thiw rok existed in your hands at the time it
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was registered, not that thsi isnt useful if a question of who copied
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who comes up later.
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A totally different issue, but one you may be confusing with the
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acquisition of a copyright, is the question of infringement. A copyright
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is just that, the right to make copies of the work. In this case, the
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question of whether someone has seen your work (with our without a
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copyright notice) is vital. If they copy your work, then its
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infringment., If, on the other hand, the develop the EXACT SAME THING
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without EVER seeing your work, they own a legitimate copyright on their
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version. This is why clones of software are done in the 'clean-room'
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approach, where the people developing the release code never actually see
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the original. Instead, there is a second team that digs into the original
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and writes a specification. Thsi is handed 'over the wall' to the celan
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team who code to the spec. Their result is handed back over the wall to
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the dirty team, who test it, find all the difference from the original,
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and write a new spec to be handed over the wall again.
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This is how those comapnies that foirst cloned the IBM BIOS and Apple
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Toolkit were able to do so without infringing the appropriate copyrights.
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 04:30:13 GMT
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(Its late and I forgot to include this. Consider it an attachment to my
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previous peice explaining copyright.)
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I am not a lawyer, and the proceeding peice shoudl not be construed as
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giving legal advice.
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What i am is particularly well versed on thsi one particular issue, to
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the environment in which I was raised.
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(There is a whole different side to the Copyright issue regarding what is
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known as 'fair use', but thats a whole-nother artical.)
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: What about a votr on comp.os.linux.doom
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 04:31:07 GMT
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In article <1994Sep12.123437.32051@ritz.equinox.gen.nz> grantma@ritz.equinox.gen.nz (Matthew Grant) writes:
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>The New NOISE has started. We are about to be invaded by " How do you do
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>XXX with Doom?".
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>Lets control the flood and get it out of the road before it starts!
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>
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>--
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> _/ _/ __/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ Matthew A. Grant
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> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_ _/ _/_ _/ _/ 1 Domain Tce, Chch. NZ.
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> _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (03) 338-4287
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> _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ grantma@ritz.equinox.gen.nz
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I vote AYE!
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From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
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Subject: Re: Max size of SCSI HD?
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 05:30:37 GMT
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In article <9409122204.20@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
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>Drew Eckhardt (drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
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>: You can access terrabyte drives under Linux, using the normal
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>: partitioning scheme. With Remy's changes to ext2, you can
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>: even have 9 gigabyte partitions if you want.
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>You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the maximum partition
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>size for SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 is 2 gigabytes.
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As a few 9G disk users will attest to, you're wrong.
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For your edification, I present a snippet out of the SCSI-II
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specification. The SCSI-I specification says the
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same thing with the exception of the DPO bit, although it's arranged
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numerically rather than alphabetically, making things harder to find :
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8.2.6. READ(10) Command
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Table 8-16: READ(10) Command
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Bit| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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0 | Operation Code (28h) |
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1 | Logical Unit Number | DPO | FUA | Reserved | RelAdr |
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2 | (MSB) |
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- - -|- - Logical Block Address - -|
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5 | (LSB) |
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=====|=======================================================================|
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6 | Reserved |
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=====|=======================================================================|
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7 | (MSB) |
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=====|=== Transfer Length |
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8 | (LSB) |
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9 | Control |
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==============================================================================
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Note the 32 bit Logical Block Address field. 2^32 sectors * .5K each =
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2 terrabytes. Assume that we have a sign problem somewhere in the
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Linux code, and we still have 1 terrabyte of disk space per drive.
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Partition it however you like, Remy's ext-2 code will handle it.
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>This can obviously be fixed
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>with striped disk drivers, etc, but consider that Auspex servers, running
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>SunOS 4.1.3, can only do 8 gigabytes per partition even with their volume
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>management.
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All this demonstrates is that Sun/Auspex screwed up, and ought to
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hire themselves a new development staff.
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--
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Since our leaders won't respect The Constitution, the highest law of our
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country, you can't expect them to obey lesser laws of any country.
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Boycott the United States until this changes.
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From: kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin)
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Subject: Re: Horrific bug in DOOM!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 12:57:58 GMT
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Mark A. Davis (mark@taylor.infi.net) wrote:
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> My point, originally, is that the word DOS has nothing to do with
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> Microsoft... neither does the word "windows". The proper names for those
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> products always have been, and still are MS-DOS and MS-Windows! Microsoft
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> could not, cannot, and will not be able to register common, generic
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> English words to their exclusive use. That would be like trying to
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> make a new computer called "computer" and registering the name so nobody
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> else can use it. Then end up confusing the market-
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Or, more realisticly, trying to register a computer called the 'Alpha' and
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failing so changing its name to the 'Alpha AXP', where AXP are 3 random
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letters of the alphabet! [This is true!]
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[==================================================================]
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[ Kevin Lentin |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\__/~\__/~\_| ]
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[ kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au |___/~\/~\_____/~\______/~\/~\__| ]
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[ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!' |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\____/~~\___| ]
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From: lingnau@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Anselm Lingnau)
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Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI v
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 11:29:59 GMT
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In article <1994Sep14.081931.16107@ka4ybr.com>,
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Mark A. Horton KA4YBR <mah@ka4ybr.com> wrote:
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> Since the
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> product is not supported by WP corporation in the target environment, should
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> one purchase such a product and then manage to "make it work" through the
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> addition of software in no way connected with the original work (i.e. the
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> IBCS/COFF support) could the purchaser then return the purchased product for
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> a refund due to "lack of suitability" to the purchaser's environment and yet
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> still continue to use the "assisted" product which the vendor choses not
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> to support? Is this piracy? The product is not running in any "supported"
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> or even officially "sanctioned" environment and is thus unusable and
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> ineligible for support which is a factor in the purchase price of the said
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> product.
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This is ridiculous. Of course this is piracy. By your reasoning I
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could buy any Windows software to run under WABI (or Wine, or whatever),
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copy it and return the original just because I've suddenly discovered I
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don't have Windows on my machine -- just a piece of software that will
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`assist' me in running the program after all. The claim of `lack of
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suitability' is self-defeating.
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Anyway, copyright is not dependent on being able to actually take
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advantage of the copied work; if I gave you a copy of my WordPerfect
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disk that you were going to ritually burn or use as a boat anchor I
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would still be in violation of copyright laws. If I didn't own a
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computer at all, but bought a copy of WordPerfect just to prop up my
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coffee table, I'd still be eligible for updates, calls to the hotline or
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whatever type of support is offered with the package.
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Other than that, I take it that somewhere near the start of the
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WordPerfect manual you will find a disclaimer to the effect that
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Novell/WordPerfect won't in fact guarantee that the bit patterns on the
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disk make up a valid program, let alone that that program will be
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`suitable' for anything at all. Therefore I'd doubt that you'd get a
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refund merely on the grounds of `lack of suitability', anyhow. I suppose
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you will also find that returning the package for any reason will
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require you to destroy all the backup copies that you have made, and so
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on.
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Anselm
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Disclaimer: I've never seen WordPerfect media nor documentation. Neither
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am I a copyright lawyer. The above should not be construed as legal
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advice -- see a professional for that.
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--
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Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
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[The] Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is
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a complete substitute for life. --- Andrew Brown
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From: sviswanathan@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
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Subject: Partitioning suggestions?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:00 -0800
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Hello everyone. I'm going to be moving into the brave world
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of Linux as soon as I get the OS/2 Warp II beta. Here is
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my current partition:
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Drive 0:
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40 MB Primary FAT [ DOS 6.22 ]
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40 MB Extended HPFS [ OS/2 Warp I ]
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1 MB Boot Manager
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Drive 1:
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45 MB Primary FAT
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55 MB Extended FAT
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I tried to install Slackware 2.0 a couple of months back
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unsuccessfully on Drive 1 (on both the primary and extended.)
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I'm willing to completely restructure both drives and figure
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that since I'll be installing the new OS/2 beta soon, now would
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be a good time. Could someone please suggest an appropriate
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partition configuration that would result in the LEAST amount
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of trouble for both OS/2 and Linux?
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Thanks!
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Sri
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From: gregbadr@acpub.duke.edu (Greg Badros)
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Subject: Qlogic Fast!SCSI ISA Support?
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:16:56 GMT
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Does anyone know the current status of Qlogic host adapter support by Linux?
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The SCSI howto says it's under development, but the howto is several
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months old.
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Has anyone gotten a Qlogic SCSI adaptor to work with Linux? Please respond
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via email to gjb@cs.duke.edu
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Thanks.
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From: muenx@speedy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Holger Muenx)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: HYDRA - serial bidirectional transfer for Linux?
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:11:58 GMT
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Guten Tag!
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Did anybody consider porting HYDRA, a serial bidirectional file transfer
|
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program to Linux?
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HYDRA is a file transfer protocol available for MS-DOS and Amiga machines
|
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which allows sending and receiving files from/to serial connections at the
|
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same time. On a 19200 connection it is said to manage >2200cps for sending
|
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or receiving - resulting in >4400cps considering the bidirectional transfer.
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The good thing is that the source code of this program is available.
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At least the documentation says so. Unfortunately, I did not find the source
|
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code on the net.
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So: Is any port for Linux available? If not where can I get the source
|
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code so that I can have a try on it myself?
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Any information will be appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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Holger Muenx (muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 13:50:56 GMT
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In article <ann-13210.779119813@cs.cornell.edu> Ian Jackson <ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu> writes:
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>If you wish to place your work in the public domain, so that anyone
|
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>can do anything with it - including making their own derivations and
|
|
>placing their own copyright on them without crediting you - you must
|
|
>say so explicitly, for example with "I hereby relinquish my copyright
|
|
>and place this work in the public domain".
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Before people put anything in the public domain be aware that the public
|
|
domain doesn't mean people cannot sue you for writing crap code that
|
|
breaks their computer! Therefore its much better to place the program
|
|
under a license along the lines of 'Do as you please but I'm not liable
|
|
for the results'.
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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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``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
|
|
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
|
|
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 13:56:31 GMT
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|
|
In article <CvuCws.9JJ@serval.net.wsu.edu> a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Christopher Wiles) writes:
|
|
>Seriously, IMHO Doom will probably be more useable in the promised
|
|
>pixel-doubling mode than in a straight 320x200. Easier to make things
|
|
>look innocent when the boss walks in ... "Hey, you're not actually
|
|
>_working_ in 320x200, are you?"
|
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|
|
Rumour has it Xfree86 3.1 has 320x200x256 support for DOOM. As to mode
|
|
switching you just hit CTRL-ALT-+ and go back 1024x768 when the boss is
|
|
around.
|
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|
|
Alan
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|
|
|
--
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|
..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
|
|
// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''
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------------------------------
|
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|
|
From: djohnson@elvis.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
|
|
Subject: Registering in general (was Re: Registering Linux Doom)
|
|
Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:13:59 GMT
|
|
|
|
In article <34ro85$ovv@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
|
|
|
|
> >The only thing about this that really saddens me is that ddt thinks
|
|
> >that the Linux version doesn't generate revenue; I will be getting the
|
|
> >registered version next week to use on my Linux system!
|
|
>
|
|
> I was thinking about this today.
|
|
>
|
|
> Linux Doom users who register should make it clear that they are
|
|
> registering because of the Linux version. This might help open Id's
|
|
> eyes to Linux's potential.
|
|
|
|
Please, do this for ANYTHING you register. Too often I see
|
|
registration forms that have stuff like "1) DOS, 2) Windows, 3) Mac"
|
|
and no "4) other" column.
|
|
|
|
For instance, when I registered for TADS, there was no way to
|
|
indicate that you were not using any of the listed systems.
|
|
I scribbled stuff on the form, but I suspect that most of the
|
|
people that registered for unix or amiga versions did not do
|
|
this. Yet I seem to recall a statement like "the number of
|
|
non-msdos users is too small to justify...".
|
|
--
|
|
Darin Johnson
|
|
djohnson@ucsd.edu
|
|
- Grad school - just say no.
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|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
|
|
Subject: Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses?
|
|
Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:04:44 -0400
|
|
|
|
jamesd@teleport.com (James Deibele) writes:
|
|
>Console output under Linux was very quick and I'm sure X performance is
|
|
>pretty good. But curses performance is a little sluggish and adding
|
|
>lines near the bottom of the screen is a real killer - curses seems to
|
|
>clear the screen with blank lines <then> adds the new text.
|
|
|
|
That sounds like a termcap entry problem... I don't have it, and I'm using
|
|
a different distribution. The console vt100 emulation -- an attribute of
|
|
the _kernel_ -- supports IL and DL directly, even correctly interacting
|
|
with the scrolling region. Check other termcaps, and if you're equipped,
|
|
take a look at the console.c in your kernel source tree to see what it
|
|
expects. This is an area that deserves better documentation. The
|
|
authoritative source for the emulation ought not to be the termcap file.
|
|
|
|
Cheers,
|
|
-- jra
|
|
--
|
|
Jay R. Ashworth Ashworth
|
|
Designer & Associates
|
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ka1fjx/4 High Technology Systems Consulting
|
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jra@baylink.com +1 813 790 7592
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