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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, 29 Sep 94 17:13:19 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #845
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Linux-Misc Digest #845, Volume #2 Thu, 29 Sep 94 17:13:19 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Linux mentioned in PC Week (Clifford Story)
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Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors ("Theodore Ts'o")
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Re: Assembler for LINUX??? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD? (Craig S. Maloney)
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Re: How to pronounce Linux?? (Jin S. Choi)
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Xfree-86 Info. (Robert Sink)
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Re: New User HOWTO proposal (Clifford Story)
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Re: How Old Is Linus? (H. Peter Anvin)
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Re: Linux won't see printer (Rene COUGNENC)
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tcpdump [short q] (DABOUS@CHIP.FNAL.GOV)
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Re: Maple V for Linux (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Re: New Linux Distribution (Barth Andreas)
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Re: Special Sale On QNX! (las@light-house.uucp)
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Pentium problems/performance (Ljubinko Kondic)
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Is anyone using a TEXEL CD-ROM (SCSI) with Linux? (Paul Pearson)
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Re: Hmmm (William S. Kaster)
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Re: SCO WordPerfect: does it run on Linux? (Marc Fraioli)
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Re: Source copyable software is better than artificial life (Josef Dalcolmo)
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From: Clifford Story <CSTORY@gallant.apple.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux mentioned in PC Week
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:25:21 GMT
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>I especially like the mention of high stability. Maybe this will satisfy
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>the "it's not ready for prime time" naysayers; then again, probably not.
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Yeah, probably not. Consider, after all, Windows: Chicago promises to
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(someday) bring Windows up to where the Mac was in 1986 and Windows
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still has 90% market share. Sheep follow the shepherd...
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Cliff
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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Copyright and licensing - a plea to software authors
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 13:32:11 -0400
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Reply-To: tytso@MIT.EDU
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 10:05 EDT
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From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
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So whether or not package A can be distrbuted only under the
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terms attached to package B depends on the existence or
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non-existence of package C, where A, B, and C do not share any
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lines of codes and are not otherwise derived from one another?
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This is rational?
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Sure, because the copyright for B says that if you use it, you're
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making a derivation, and copyright law says that you can control the
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use of derivations.
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Sorry, the definition of "dervitive work" is defined in the copyright law,
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not in the GPL. So is the definition of "fair use".
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- Ted
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Assembler for LINUX???
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 01:12:38 GMT
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In article <369s5b$7t3@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
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Drew Eckhardt <drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
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>In article <369lju$ptp@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>,
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>greek <qiongw@news-server.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
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>>Does anyone know if there is any assembler available for linux?
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>
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>Yes - Linux uses the GNU assembler, which is included in the
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>binutils binary distribution from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/GCC.
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>
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>>Something like Macro Assembler?
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>
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>Yes and no -
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>
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>No - Linux is unix (or at least as close as you can get without
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> some one suiing you), so there shouldn't be a macro assembler
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> since you can have the same effect with simpler tools.
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I hate to disagree, but there is ALWASY a need in machine-intensive
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applications for a small amount of assembler. Until the compilers get as
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smart as humans (which includes doing ungly things like using the top n
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bits of a register for one purpose and the bottom n bits of it for
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another assemblers will be necessary for some applications (such as
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games).
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> > The Linux as is also intended to assemble compiler output,
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> and not human generated code.
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>
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This is true, although not as nasty as it sounds. Its quite usable for
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small routines (I just wrote a few at work.)
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>Yes - take cpp, m4, or macro language of your choice to pre-process
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> assembler input.
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Or perhapse more to the point, the GNU tool intended for thisi purpose--
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the gasp assembler macro preprocessor.
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One last comment. Gcc supports in-line assembly ina fairly nice way.
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You might want to look at that first to see if it meets your needs...
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>
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>--
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From: craig@enterprise (Craig S. Maloney)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 13:54:07 GMT
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On 28 Sep 1994 14:52:35 GMT Michael S. Scheidell (scheidel@gate.net) wrote the following...
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:>Po-Han Lin (plin@girtab.usc.edu) wrote:
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:>: If one has a pc compatible with a 486, which OS is the best unix
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:>: operating system? QNX, Linux, or 386BSD?
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:>WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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:>FLAME BAIT. THIS IS CROSS POSTED TO comp.os.linux.misc,comp,os.qnx,
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:>and comp.os.386bsd.misc
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:>IF YOU WISH TO REPLY.... ERASE THE GROUPS YOU DON'T WANT TO POST TO!
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I dunno, though. For "Flame-Bait", this discussion has been pretty
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civilized. Kudo's for both sides.
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"Me, I run Linux. I have no need of a multi-processor environment" -Craig
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:>--
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:>Michael S. Scheidell Florida Datamation, Inc.
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:>scheidel@gate.net (407) 241-2966
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:>Distributers of QNX Real Time OS Products (finger for more info)
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--
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Craig
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=============================================================================
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Craig Maloney | Engineering Computer Center
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Supervisor | Wayne State University
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PC/Mac Systems, College of Engineering | 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive
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Internet: craig@enterprise.eng.wayne.edu| Detroit, MI 48202
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Phone : 313-577-5789 | USA.
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Fax : 313-577-5969 |
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| "Eat Drum, Eat Drum, EAT DRUM!"
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From: jsc@gwar.mit.edu (Jin S. Choi)
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Subject: Re: How to pronounce Linux??
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:58:03 GMT
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Actually, if you want to be downright canonical about it, you can pick
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up english.au from nic.funet.fi and hear how Linus himself pronounces it.
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"Hi, my name is Leenoos Torvahlds and I pronounce Leenooks as Leenooks."
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From: sinkr@universe.digex.net (Robert Sink)
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Subject: Xfree-86 Info.
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 18:45:41 -0400
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Okay, I'm fairly inept when it comes to Xfree86 or any Xwindows system
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for that fact. I'm looking mainly for a FAQ which tells one about how
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to set up .rc files, configure, and what the different 'managers' do
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and where to get them, etc... Any other info would be greatly appreciated!
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|:| Robert Sink | "I don't want to start any blasphemous |:|
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|:| sinkr@universe.digex.net | rumors, but I think that GOD has a sick |:|
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|:|--------------------------| sense of humor and when I die I expect |:|
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|:| (c) 1994 Gurkware, Inc. | to find him laughing." -- Depeche Mode |:|
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*or via the PGP Server: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu*
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From: Clifford Story <CSTORY@gallant.apple.com>
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Subject: Re: New User HOWTO proposal
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:37:53 GMT
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Moreover, a How-To written from the perspective of a rookie would be more
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helpful to a rookie than one written by an expert.
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Cliff
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: How Old Is Linus?
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 00:02:30 GMT
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Followup to: <367dkb$ai9@sashimi.wwa.com>
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By author: blackbob@wwa.com (Terence S. Murphy)
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In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc
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>
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> Someone posted a message today which said that Linus doesn't yet have his
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> BS degree. I had always thought that he was a graduate student. Now I
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> realize that it might be possible for him to be a graduate student
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> without having a BS, which I suspect is the case. I know that he started
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> working on Linux in 1991, and that would put him as a freshman or younger
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> then when he started, which I sort of doubt is the case. So I'd like to
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> know exactly how old he is now and where he's at in school. I assume
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> several people here know.
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>
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His exact birthdate is encoded in the kernel. (I am not telling
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where, though.)
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
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FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
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Unizork: You are in a maze of twisty little directories, all different...
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From: rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Subject: Re: Linux won't see printer
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Date: 27 Sep 1994 15:18:49 GMT
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Reply-To: cougnenc@hsc.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Ce brave Mike Stancliff ecrit:
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> When I type " ls > /dev/lp1 " I get a message that says "no such
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> device". It also says that for lp0 and lp2, which I think it should. I
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> have an MS-DOS partition and a Linux partition. I can print with no
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> problem from DOS with the printer set as LPT1.
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At boot time, the kernel should print
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"lp_init: lp1 exists, using polling driver"
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If not, recompile your kernel with parallel printer support enabled.
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("make config", answer "y" to the question "Parallel printer support?")
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--
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linux linux linux linux -[ cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net ]- linux linux linux
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From: DABOUS@CHIP.FNAL.GOV
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: tcpdump [short q]
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 11:02:56 -0500
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Hi All,
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What is the Linux command to do a "tcpdump"? I type tcpdump on
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my linux box and it says command not found!
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Any idea? Thank you!
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- Kal Dabous
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dabous@fnal.gov
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Subject: Re: Maple V for Linux
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 15:08:27 GMT
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In article <36ctcd$g5d@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, tony@engr.mun.ca (Tony Galway) writes:
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>rossn@unbc.edu (Ross Niebergall) writes:
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>>In article <369jag$rp@news.bu.edu> spw@chamois.bu.edu (Steve Weibel) writes:
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>>>I don't know... When I can pick up a student version of Mathematica for
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>>>Windows at the bookstore for $160, I'm tempted to keep my DOS partition.
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>>You should note that the price that was quoted for Maple for Linux
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>>was not the student version.
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>I would imagine the higher price for maple is due to unix being a
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>multi-user platform. Windows is for one person, however on a unix
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>implementation of a program (unless it is otherwise restricted, and
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>I dont think maple is) then that program is available to alot of
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>people.
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No. The licensing being discussed is a single-user license. You would have to
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talk to Waterloo about a multi-user situation.
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The previous follow-up pointed out that the price for linux is the same as for
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Windows. No, there is not (yet??) a student version -- not for any un*x as
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far as I know -- this is the first time the question would be reasonable, but
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if they are pricing mapleV/linux at the same price structure as mapleV/Windows,
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it seems like they are going a long ways to satisfy the needs of this community.
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Yeah, it's more than a student version on any machine. But it is, in my
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opinion, the best general-purpose CAS program available. (More religious wars
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on that coming, I'm sure).
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Please don't suggest that, simply because they don't run some high-powered
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license manager, that we should consider violating the license agreement and run
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it in multi-user environments with a single-user license. More than this one
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program is on the line with that; since if vendors believe that their software
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will be pirated wholesale under linux, they won't release it, and linux will
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never become accepted in a broader community. You don't want to have to
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deal with a license manager on your PC.
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--
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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From: BARTH@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Barth Andreas)
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Subject: Re: New Linux Distribution
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 14:03:33 GMT
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In <36e374$sji@gandalf.rutgers.edu> madrid@gandalf.rutgers.edu writes:
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> Thank you for the suggestions so far. I am serioulsy considering making
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> this WIT distribution. But my intention, as I said, is that this will be
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> a trial (transitional?) distribution, not a final one, so upgradeability
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> to a major distribution (Slackware) is a main concern. I take S. Lee's
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> [...]
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I would like to add two other points:
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- It might be a good idea not to use the newest versions of
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kernel and applications, but only those that are known for
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stability.
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- As I see the situation, the most important handicap for a dos/
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windows user to start using linux will be the lack of information.
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Surely you can get manpages, faqs, HOWTOs and even tutorials
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for nearly all problems on the net, but a newbie needs a careful
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introduction starting at his (assumable low) level of knoledge
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teaching him all he needs to make good use of the system he's
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using now.
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Both is, as I think, important to keep frustration from the desired users.
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Good luck with it.
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Andy
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: las@light-house.uucp
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Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 16:54:54 GMT
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Reply-To: whome!light-house!las@planix.com
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scheidel@gate.net wrote:
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: Why settle for slow and obselete Unix such as UnixWare, Sun Solaris,
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: SCO, Linux or BSD when you can have POWER & RELIABILITY with QNX 4.21!
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: Stop playing games with these inferior o/s's and switch to QNX today.
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Dear Usenetters,
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Please do not respond to this article. It is a forgery, and a too obvious
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flame bait. It was posted from a school account at uwaterloo.ca, and not
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where it claims to have originated from.
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Here are the article headers:
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Xref: light-house comp.os.linux.misc:16360 comp.os.linux.misc:16361
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
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Path: light-house!whome!infoshare!fonorola!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!zmailer--not-for-mail
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From: scheidel@gate.net ()
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Subject: Special Sale On QNX!
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X-Mail-Message-Id: <849328273928.C72D265@inca.gate.net>
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Message-ID: <CwoF86.HLp@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
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Originator: root@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Nntp-Posting-Host: inca.gate.net
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X-Mail-Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!gate.net!scheidel <scheidel@gate.net>
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Organization: University of Waterloo
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Mime-Version: 1.414
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 09:34:56 GMT
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Why settle for slow and obselete Unix such as UnixWare, Sun Solaris,
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SCO, Linux or BSD when you can have POWER & RELIABILITY with QNX 4.21!
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Stop playing games with these inferior o/s's and switch to QNX today.
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QNX 4.21 represents the culmination of over a decade of research and
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experience with an installed base of over 250,000 microkernel, message-
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passing QNX operating systems world-wide. QNX combines the function-
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ality and flexibility of a research-calibre OS with the robustness and
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performance of a commercial OS! And, it's fast!
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Florida Datamation has been a QNX distributor for 10 years! We are nice,
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knowledgable and go the extra mile for the sale. And, we promise to BEAT
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ANYONE'S PRICE! A complete QNX developer's package starts at just $195!
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Michael S. Scheidell email: scheidel@gate.net
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Florida Datamation, Inc. US-CAN Sales: (800) 642-5938
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6405 Congress Ave Suite 140 Internl Sales: (407) 241-2377
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Boca Raton, FL. 33487-2844 Tech Support: (407) 241-2966
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Fax: (407) 241-3108
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Distributer of these other fine QNX products:
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Tilcon Graphics, Watcom SQL, Comdale, Klondike, Equinox Megaports.
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Scsi Tape/Disk and Raid Systems.
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--
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Cheers,
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Laszlo Herczeg
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*** Ask me about the Toronto Linux Users Group (TLUG) ***
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Cheers,
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Laszlo Herczeg
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*** Ask me about the Toronto Linux Users Group (TLUG) ***
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From: kondic@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Ljubinko Kondic)
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Subject: Pentium problems/performance
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:48:39 GMT
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Since there is a lot of discussion about pentium problems/
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performance with linux, I will summarize here my experience
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with hope that it is going to be helpful for those of you
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who plan getting a new machine.
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1. Hardware:
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-Pentium 90MHz CPU, 512 Cache, P54VL-PCI matherboard,
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16 MeG Ram,ATI 32mach 1Meg(Dram) (PCI),
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Conner 420MeG hard drive, (VL controller),(bought from
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Zenon), Viewsonic 15E monitor;
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2. Software:
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-Slackwere 2.0 Linux, 1.1.47 kernel,2.5.8 gcc (I tried
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compiling the version of gcc for pentium, the
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performance was worse about 10-15% (?));
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3. Problems:
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-Linux didn't want to boot at the high speed (turbo on).
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It got stuck every time. Change of settings in BIOS
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didn't help (thank you very much to whose who tried
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to help). Since also some dos software (win) didn't
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work at high speed, tech. support was willing to help.
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After about 16 hours of phone conversation, the
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problem was localized to Flash chip (addition to
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AMI BIOS). Now I got a new one (new version) and it
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works fine. Performance was about 50% down (at least
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dhrystone test) when run at low speed (turbo off).
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4. Performance:
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-I have only dhrystone test here, the results are for
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dhry11, dhry21 (kernel compiled with network support).
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1-4: dhry11
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5-8: dhry11 under XWin
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9-13: dhry21
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===========================
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DHRY11
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.5
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This machine benchmarks at 142857.1 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 81.307
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.5
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This machine benchmarks at 142857.1 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 81.307
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.5
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This machine benchmarks at 142857.1 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 81.307
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.5
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This machine benchmarks at 141242.9 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 80.389
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XF86
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.6
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This machine benchmarks at 140449.4 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 79.937
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.5
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This machine benchmarks at 140845.1 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 80.162
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.5
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This machine benchmarks at 140845.1 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 80.162
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Register option selected? NO
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Dhrystone( 1.1) time for 500000 passes = 3.6
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This machine benchmarks at 136986.3 dhrystones/second
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VAX MIPS rating = 77.966
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DHRY21
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Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 (Language: C)
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Please give the number of runs through the benchmark:
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Execution starts, 1000000 runs through Dhrystone
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Execution ends
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Register option selected? NO
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Microseconds for one run through Dhrystone: 7.7
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Dhrystones per Second: 130378.1
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VAX MIPS rating = 74.205
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Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 (Language: C)
|
|
|
|
Please give the number of runs through the benchmark:
|
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Execution starts, 1000000 runs through Dhrystone
|
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Execution ends
|
|
Register option selected? NO
|
|
Microseconds for one run through Dhrystone: 7.7
|
|
Dhrystones per Second: 130208.3
|
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VAX MIPS rating = 74.108
|
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|
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|
|
Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 (Language: C)
|
|
|
|
Please give the number of runs through the benchmark:
|
|
Execution starts, 1000000 runs through Dhrystone
|
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Execution ends
|
|
Register option selected? NO
|
|
Microseconds for one run through Dhrystone: 7.7
|
|
Dhrystones per Second: 129199.0
|
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VAX MIPS rating = 73.534
|
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|
|
|
|
Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 (Language: C)
|
|
|
|
Please give the number of runs through the benchmark:
|
|
Execution starts, 1000000 runs through Dhrystone
|
|
Execution ends
|
|
Register option selected? NO
|
|
Microseconds for one run through Dhrystone: 7.7
|
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Dhrystones per Second: 130208.3
|
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VAX MIPS rating = 74.108
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By the way, it reports usually 36.08 Bogomips. 36.25 if
|
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the weather is nice. About 17 with turbo off.
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==================================
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Hope this was useful. If somebody wants some more info,
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feel free. Best by email, kondic@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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From: ppearson@folio.com (Paul Pearson)
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Subject: Is anyone using a TEXEL CD-ROM (SCSI) with Linux?
|
|
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:06:19
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If so, could you let me know what model and what firmware revision? I have
|
|
a DOS program that will scan the SCSI devices and tell you what the
|
|
firmware revision is if you need it. I can email it or whatever -- just let
|
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me know. Thx.
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--Paul Pearson
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ppearson@folio.com
|
|
"Please Wait... Brain booting from floppy."
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From: wsk@purple.mayfield.hp.com (William S. Kaster)
|
|
Crossposted-To: alt.fan.linus-torvalds
|
|
Subject: Re: Hmmm
|
|
Date: 29 Sep 1994 09:45:48 GMT
|
|
Reply-To: wsk@mayfield.hp.com
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> "Linus has left the building...Linus has left the building..."
|
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>
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Nah. Probably hasn't. In fact he's probably building right now ;->
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-wsk
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--
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=====
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William S. Kaster
|
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email: wsk@mayfield.hp.com
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------------------------------
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From: mjf@clark.net (Marc Fraioli)
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|
Subject: Re: SCO WordPerfect: does it run on Linux?
|
|
Date: 27 Sep 1994 23:35:10 GMT
|
|
Reply-To: mjf@clark.net
|
|
|
|
In article 24574@taylor.infi.net, mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:
|
|
>The text version flies at an incredible speed. The Xwindows version will
|
|
>be similar to the Sun version. WordPerfect 5.1 was WordPerfect's first
|
|
>attempt at X software, it is rather large and slow.... but usable.
|
|
|
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I have WordPerfect 5.0 for X/Ultrix at work. It is ghastly. Quite
|
|
probably the worst written piece of software I have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
---
|
|
Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- "
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mjf@clark.net | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
|
|
| Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
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------------------------------
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|
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From: josefd@albert.ssl.berkeley.edu (Josef Dalcolmo)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.python
|
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Subject: Re: Source copyable software is better than artificial life
|
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 19:23:28 GMT
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|
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In article <1994Sep29.130840.1139@njitgw.njit.edu>,
|
|
Aaron Watters <aaron@vienna.njit.edu> wrote:
|
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>
|
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...
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|
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>Nevertheless in wondering why free software is so good these days
|
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>it occured to me that the propagation of free software is one gigantic
|
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>artificial life evolution experiment, but the metaphor isn't perfect.
|
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>
|
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>Programs are thrown out into the harsh environment, and the bad ones
|
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>die. The good ones adapt rapidly and become very robust in short
|
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>order.
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...
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>
|
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>Free software is artificial life, but better.
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|
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And free software and it's life is threatened by lawsuits, software patents
|
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and interface copyrights. (That includes programs like X-Windows or the free
|
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spreadsheet you are using right now!)
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Join the League for Programming Freedom !
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- Josef
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