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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 16:13:32 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #931
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Linux-Misc Digest #931, Volume #2 Thu, 13 Oct 94 16:13:32 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Peter da Silva)
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Re: Linux on a IBM PS/2 (Staal WJ)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Alan Cox)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Christopher Wiles)
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PAS16 PROBLEM (Yee Hong Leung)
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Re: What is Linux good for? (David Reeve Sward)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Marten Liebster)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Alan T Shutko)
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Re: X vs non-X users? (David Fox)
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Re: Advantage of having sound card (Mark D. Roth)
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OLD/USED LINUX CDROM address (Gideon H. Chonia)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Trevor Lampre)
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Re: MacLinux (Dave Schmitz)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Othman Ahmad)
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Mosaic viewers not going in background. (Karl J. Runge)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (Maxim Spivak)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (Matthew Donadio)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (John Palaima)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (John Palaima)
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Linux doom and PPP (Matthew Osborne)
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Re: SW Technologies (E. Robert Tisdale)
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Re: Syquest and Linux (Timothy Demarest)
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Re: Anyone using P90-Plato-INTEL board under LINUX??? (Timothy Demarest)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (David Barr)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 14:28:10 GMT
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In article <37ii2n$2i2@bigboote.wpi.edu>,
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Joseph W. Vigneau <joev@res.WPI.EDU> wrote:
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>Linux, which is SYSV based
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LINUS IS NOT SYSTEM V BASED. It was developed from scratch using Minix to
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bootstrap the process somewhat, but it's not really Minix-based either.
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Linux just has a system-V-ish feel, which isn't a bad thing.
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From: wjstaal@cs.vu.nl (Staal WJ)
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Subject: Re: Linux on a IBM PS/2
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 14:19:17 GMT
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cirigara@nova.umd.edu (Carlos Irigaray) writes:
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>Hi, does anyone know how to create a "boot disk" and a "root disk" as in
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>the Slackware distribution?
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>I'm using Slackware 2.0.1 and my runnning kernel is 1.1.52 (I've compiled
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>it). What I need is to make those diskettes from my system because then I
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>should be able to have my IBM PS/2 booting. (the new kernel support the
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>MCA architecture!)
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>Thanks for the help!
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Is this true? Can someone confirm this?
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It would be great, not having another boot/root disk to boot the PS/2.
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Wilco Staal
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 16:00:52 GMT
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In article <CxA77J.LGt@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes:
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>not what I had in mind. Linux does use inittab, and rc.d (runlevels) like
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>System V. I guess I see things from the administrative point of view, users
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>see things from a shell or library level. No insult intended.
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This depends on the distribution. You can equally use the BSD style init
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with Linux or recompile sysvinit with NetBSD 8)
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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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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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From: a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Christopher Wiles)
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 00:38:52 GMT
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goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
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: >You and I are in agreement on this, Richard. Linux is in desparate need
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: >of it's own wordprocessor, not a typesetter.
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I agree completely, also.
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: It's no wonder to me that it's been difficult to find anyone to fill this
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: void. There are a lot of us out here who could fill one or another part
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: of the void. We need the technical equivalent of a "Refridgerator" Perry
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: to fill this one, though.
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Why just one person doing the coding? Did just one person port X11R6 to
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Linux? Clearly, the answer to creating a useable Linux wordprocessor is
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the formation of a design group.
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This is probably a really stupid thing to do, but _someone_ has to do it:
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I'm willing to be the coordinator for a Linux wordprocessor project.
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I, for one, refuse to put a DOS partition back on my machine just to run
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AmiPro.
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People interested in contributing code are hereby begged to contact me at
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my wsuaix address below.
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-- Chris
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a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu wileyc@halcyon.com wileyc@quark.chs.wa.com
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"... but I want to use all eight comm ports SIMULTANEOUSLY!"
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PGP 2.6 public key available by finger for the clinically paranoid.
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From: leung@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Yee Hong Leung)
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Subject: PAS16 PROBLEM
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 14:05:13 GMT
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I just installed Linux off a CD_ROM.. Here's my problem...
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486-dx2-66.. 16 mbs of nonparity ram. plenty of IDE HD.
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1 PAS16 Revision -05-D. with SCSI CD-ROM (device 0).
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Slackware 2.0.1 and kernel 1.1.50 linux.
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here's my problem.. on bootup, the system recognizes
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the presence of the PAS16 SCSI interface... at
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address 0x388 and IRQ15( it may be useful to inform
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anybody reading this that the PAS16 I have DOESNT
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have any jumpers for IRQ/DMA settings) but instead
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of continuing on, th efollowing messages come up:
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scsi5: interrupts not enabled. for better interactive
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performance, please jumper the board for a free IRQ.
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Stale command on 1:1 appears to have died when bus
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was reset.
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scsi0: aborting command.
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destination target 1, lnn 1
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command : Request Sense 20 00 01 10 00..
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Also under dos using the MVSOUND.SYS driver
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the CD-ROM / PAS16 do work with Windows 3.11
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and DOS.
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Also when I tried out WinNT, it couldn't
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recognize my CD-ROM either (but it didn't
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even find the SCSI interface).
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So, can anyone offer a solution to this problem
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or do I go and get another sound card/ CDROM
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Thanks in advance.
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From: David Reeve Sward <sward+@CMU.EDU>
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Subject: Re: What is Linux good for?
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 07:11:52 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 12-Oct-94 What is Linux good
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for? by Daniel Woodard@getty.onu
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> I found this group today. How well does it do multitasking? Does it run
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> under Windows or DOS?
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^^^^^----------------
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*chuckle* LOL ROFL! *sigh* What's the point of a FAQ list if NO ONE
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READS IT?!
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--
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David Sward sward+@cmu.edu
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From: mmarten@panix.com (Marten Liebster)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 12:22:57 -0400
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Gregory Urban (urban@cs.umbc.edu) wrote:
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: In article <37jjnd$9m6@panix2.panix.com>,
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: Marten Liebster <mmarten@panix.com> wrote:
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: >
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: >So when is AMD comming out with a 486dx4-120? :-)
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: >Marten
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: NO, NO, NO !!!!!!!!!!
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: Only Intel uses STUPID names for their chips. AMD will produce a DX3/120
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: (clock tripled, 40mhz external, 120mhz internal).
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Isn't a DX3 an IBM chip? If AMD used dx3 it would seem that they were cloning
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an IBM chip rather than the real Chip. I thought that dx3s are used in the
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blue lightning system? I am probably way off, but that is not anything new :)
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Marten
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Marten M. Liebster Please no flames for spelling,
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mmarten@panix.com I already know I can't spell!!
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From: ats4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (Alan T Shutko)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 04:22:57 GMT
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>>>>> "David" == David Fox <fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> writes:
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In article <FOX.94Oct5135006@first.cs.nyu.edu> fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
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David> In article <36ugha$2p5@sashimi.wwa.com> blackbob@wwa.com
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David> (Terence S. Murphy) writes: ] Does editing with emacs offer
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David> additional features for the LaTeX user that ] aren't present in
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David> vi? I'm curious about what they are, since I really love ]
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David> vi/LaTeX, and don't have problems with it...
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David> The main advantages are color highlighting of latex keywords
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I have to mention another... calc. Calc, which is available on GNU
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mirrors, is an emacs calculator with an attitude. It will do lots of
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stuff, including solving eqations for a given variable.
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The big win is that calc has an "embedded" mode where you play with
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the equation in your document. It can also format the output for
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LaTeX. Makes doing math manipulation much easier.
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--
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========================================================================
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Alan Shutko - Home of the Mighty Morphin' Power Sig - ats4@cec.wustl.edu
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All those updates, and still imperfect!!!
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GCS/S d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a-- w+(@) v+++(-) C++++ UL++++ P+>+++ L++ 3 E+++
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N++ K++ W--- M-- V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5+++ j R G !tv D- B--- e+>++++ u h f r++ n-
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y+(**)
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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: X vs non-X users?
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 15:46:45 GMT
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In article <CHRISB.94Oct12163543@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) writes:
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] Pretty well everyone who
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]
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] 1) has enough computing resources and
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] 2) uses Linux as a desktop machine
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]
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] will be running X.
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There is also a small but vocal group who avoid X for
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philosophical reasons - they feel it is a big botch.
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I understand their viewpoint, but I use it anyway.
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--
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David Fox xoF divaD
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NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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From: roth@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark D. Roth)
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Subject: Re: Advantage of having sound card
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 04:27:58 GMT
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michael@angmar.dataflux.bc.ca (Michael R. McAleese) writes:
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>In article <37b91g$f1b@werple.apana.org.au>,
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>Glenn Jayaputera <gtj@werple.apana.org.au> wrote:
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>>WOndering if I have a lot of advantages if I buy a sound card for my
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>>linux box.
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> I bought one to hear the sounds in DOOM. Never needed it before,
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>don't really need it for anything else. Well, other than hearing
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>Linus say how he pronounces Linux.
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I couldn't live without my soundcard. I don't even have a fancy one;
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just a vanilla SoundBlaster 2.1. But it serves a function that my
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life would fall apart without.
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Yes, you guessed it, my machine plays the Star Trek theme at me REALLY
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LOUDLY every morning to wake me up. I may be a geek, but it's tons
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more reliable than any alarm clock I've ever had... :)
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roth@uiuc.edu | Mark D. Roth | http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~mr4342/
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(GEEK CODE 2.1) GCS d-- H+ s++:- g+ p1>4+ !au a-- w++@ v-(*)
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C++>$ UL+>++++ P--- L++>+++ 3 E(-) N++ K++ W--- M-- V-
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po Y+ t++@ 5+ !j R-- G tv b+ D+ B--- e+(*) u+@ h>++ f+ r@ n+@ y?
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From: k042240@rzu.unizh.ch (Gideon H. Chonia)
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Subject: OLD/USED LINUX CDROM address
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 07:47:48 GMT
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Sorry Folks,
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Here is the address to send in your Old or Used LINUX CDROM for AFRICA
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Gideon Hayford Chonia
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University Of Zurich
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Computing Center
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Winterthurerstrasse 190
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CH-8057 Zurich
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Switzerland
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Thanks all
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Gideon
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--
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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% Name: Gideon Hayford Chonia %
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% Org: University Of Zurich, Computing Centre %
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% Internet: k042240@rzu.unizh.ch %
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% ---------- Ich darf ge-Du-zt werden ---------- %
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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From: trevor@xanax.apana.org.au (Trevor Lampre)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 16:45:31 +0930
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In article <3714bd$1bn7@tornews.torolab.ibm.com>,
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Colin Beckmann <coling@ivory.torolab.ibm.com> wrote:
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>Ralph Sims (ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com) wrote:
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>: root@jaguar.tigerden.com (System Administrator) writes:
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>
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>: >Trevor Lampre (trevor@xanax.apana.org.au) wrote:
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>
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>[stuff deleted]
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>: >for confirming what we've been seeing! I suggest we keep this thread
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>: >open and fill it with additional information until the problem gets the
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>: >attention it needs. I'm not a programmer, much less a kernel hacker, so
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>: >I can only voice frustration with the situation.
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>
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>: And what about those of us that DON'T see it? Basic setup is a
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>: dedicated PPP link on a 14.4 dialup, NET-3 stuff, ppd 2.1.2a,
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>: etc., with an InfoMagic/TransAmeritech CD-ROM combined install.
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>
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>: I move many megabytes of files around via FTP daily, and another
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>: many megs around with mosaic and lynx. Sendmail+IDA's been
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>: rock-solid.
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>
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>[stuff deleted]
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>If your not seeing be thankful and provide your system configuration
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>so the experts can see whats working and whats not working
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>I am NOT seeing th problem, Have a 14.4 modem using NET-3 pppd 2.2.2a with
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>slackware 1.2 , and kernel 1.1.30. I have downloaded 20 and 30 megs in a
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>single session via ftp and never had a problem. I regularly rlogin to
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>other sites, once again without problem
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>
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The problem is not with telneting or ftping out from the machine but with
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incoming connections. Not all daemons suffer from it. On my machine it has
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been telnet mostly, ftp rarely, sendmail 8.6.9 rarely, routed rarely. INN
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never has a problem even though it gets about 60M of news a day.
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Trevor Lampre
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From: schmitz@stork.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Schmitz)
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Subject: Re: MacLinux
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 01:39:59 GMT
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In article <376ei6$bs4@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> sabo@astro.ocis.temple.edu (malicia) writes:
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> A friend would like to run a free *nix on his Mac powerbook with a 68040 chip.
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>We found a reference to MacLinux. Is anything happening with it? If so where
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>can it be found?
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>
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>thanks
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>
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>digger
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I would also be very interesting in this? It seems like this should be a
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FAQ... Anybody have ANY idea of what's going on with it?
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Thank,
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Dave
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____________________________________ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _
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|| Dave Schmitz _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
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|| Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/
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|| Phone: 415.604.0767 _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
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|| Fax: 415.604.4377 _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/
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|| E-Mail: schmitz@nas.nasa.gov
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|| WWW: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/FAST/fast/smitty/home_page.html
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|| USmail: Ames Research Center, M.S. T27A-2, Moffett Field, California, 94035
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||____________________________________________________________________________
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From: othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 09:44:03 +800
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mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf) writes:
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...
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> I prefer Linux, but I use FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 because it more closely
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> resembles Ultrix, which I have to run on a DECstation which I assist in
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> administrating.
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I was told by someone who had not tried *BSD
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that Linux can behave like Sun OS which was based on BSD.
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Similarly with Ultrix. I believe it is a matter of degree of similarity.
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From a previous post, I was given the impression that we need to set BSD
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in order to compile easily for Linux.
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Is it possible that the presence of FFS and vfork is contributing to the
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similarity of FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 with Ultrix?
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SABAH is HEAVEN.
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If you are born in 1958, you'll cherish beautiful
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beaches, corals and mountains very near to civilisations,
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BUT will it last for my children?
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Disclaimer: I only speak for myself
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From: runge@redhook.llnl.gov (Karl J. Runge)
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Subject: Mosaic viewers not going in background.
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 04:41:00 GMT
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Hi, I've been using version 2.4 of Mosiac (the term verion) thru my modem.
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Everything works fine, the viewers, e.q, xv, ghostview, mpeg_play are
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spawned OK but do not go into the background. Mosaic waits (with its watch
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cursor) until the viewer finishes.
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My term Mosiac binary is dated Aug 23. I had a v1.3 Mosaic that did properly
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put everything in the background. I have checked the Mosaic documentation and
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FAQ and didn't find anything. I have tried a line like "image/gif; xv %s &"
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in a ~/.mailcap file but then it didn't even spawn the viewer.
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Any help would be appreciated. I just increased my swap by 24MB and I can now
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leave alot of viewers running ;-)
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Karl
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Karl J. Runge -- Linux: it's the Real thing -- runge1@llnl.gov
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(510)-423-0611
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Cleanliness is next to emptiness. (510)-516-7127
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From: maxims@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Maxim Spivak)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 02:43:07 GMT
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In article <wcreator.781683125@kaiwan009>,
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Steven M. Doyle <wcreator@kaiwan.com> wrote:
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>In <longyearCxDDpJ.H2C@netcom.com> longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear) writes:
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>
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>>keithk@nando.net (Keith Kee) writes:
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>
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>>>Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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>
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>>No. It is multi-user.
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>
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>I am somewhat confused on this issue. What exactly is multi-threaded? And
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>are multi-threaded and multi-user mutually exclusive?
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Multi-threaded: In addition to processes, which can be thought of as
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running programs, there are LWP (light weight processes) aka threads,
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that are usually part of one heavy-weight, or regular, process. Example:
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a process, say a word processor, can have several threads: one main
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editing thread, one printing thread, one spell checking thread. The
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advantage of threads is that you don't have to have the OS switch between
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processes, but instead the process switches between its threads by
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itself. Also, different threads can usually share memory. A context
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switch between two threads usually less time costly than between two
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processes.
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Multi-threading and multi-user is _not_ mutually exclusive.
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Max
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Maxim Spivak | #include <GoBears.h>
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University of California, Berkeley | #include <StdDisclaimer.h>
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maxims@ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu | #include ".signature"
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From: donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu (Matthew Donadio)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 02:43:41 GMT
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Jeff Kesselman (jeffpk@netcom.com) wrote:
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: So yes, UNIX is multi-threaded in the sens that there are multiple threads
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: of control operating in a time-sliced fashion. The term 'threading' is
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: often used in multi-tasking system however to denote a 'lesser form' of
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: multi-taskign that goes on completely within a single process. thsi is
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: also sometimes called 'light-weight multi-tasking'. UNIX (and Linux)
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: don't inhearently preclude this, but implementation of it is up to the
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: makers of a light-weight tasking library (such as the berkley light-weight
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: multi-tasking library) or teh compiler system in cases where light-weight
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: multi-tasking is built directly into the compiler system (as in Modula2).
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The term multi-threaded is also often misused. Then there is the
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confusion about user level threading and kernel level threading.
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Packages like LWP and language features only give the impression of
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threading. The will still boil down to normal unix-like scheduling.
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If a process has threads using LWP, then the threads will get
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scheduled when the controlling process does. In a true threaded
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system, each thread will act independant of each other and all other
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threads. Another feature of threads is "low overhead": sharing text
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space, etc. But this is becoming downplayed with some of the new
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fork(2) system calls that do the same thing. I think the original
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poster wanted to know if the linux kernel was multi-threaded (no).
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The easiest way to describe this is that the kernel itself can
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multi-task (system threads). I'll have to try to find my copy of my
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LynxOS programmers guide to help clarify this.
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--
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Beaker aka Matt Donadio | Life is short, --- __ o __~o __ o
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--- Penn State Cycling ---| the wind. --- ( )/( ) ( )/( ) ( )/( )
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====================================URL: http://mxd120.rh.psu.edu/~donadio
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From: jolt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Palaima)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 18:50:32 GMT
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In article <37iuhc$lkk@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
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Jason Saunders <maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
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>In article <37h24oINN15j@life.ai.mit.edu>,
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> jolt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Palaima) writes:
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>
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>+Hah. Apparently you didn't hear that the Am486 DX/2 66 could be safely
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>+over-clocked to run at 80Mhz. All the DX2-80 is is a relabeled DX2-66.
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>+That's why it's not much more expensive. It's the same chip. Anyone wanna
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>+take bets that new 66Mhz chips will be "crippled" so they can't be over-
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>+clocked? :)
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>
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>Saying that you could call an intel DX50 a relabeled DX33! The only difference
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What I am saying is the AMD 486 DX2-66 could *safely* be overclocked to 80 Mhz
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I *don't* know if the Intel DX-33 can be *safely* overclocked. Besides, there
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is a difference between 33->40 and 33->50 Mhz overclocking. One is almost
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guaranteed to be safer than the other; it runs the chip less out of spec than
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the other. :)
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>I wonder if anyone has tried running the new DX2-80 at 90 or 100MHz? Now that
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>would be something to reckon with! A DX2-100 would in fact be faster than a
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>DX4-100.
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Now *THAT* would be cool. :)
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--
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Richard Cooley Extraordinaire "Yeah. Arrgh."
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rcooley96@dgl.ssc.mass.edu These are my opinions, not MIT's etc...
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rcooley@nyx.cs.du.edu Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux
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"LILO - it's not just a boot loader, it's a way of life" -- me
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|
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-- I wonder if you could make a 386 DX2-300. *that* would probably kick
|
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a Pentium's ass. :)
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From: jolt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Palaima)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 18:59:34 GMT
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In article <379ulm$57s@janus.cqu.edu.au>,
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|
Andrew Whyte <ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au> wrote:
|
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>Daniel Zappala (daniel@isi.edu) wrote:
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>It order to get a DX-40 to _go_ at 80Mhz you will need an external speed of
|
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>80Mhz which is currently not available, and besides doing this to the chip
|
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>would definatly fry it :)
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Not necessecarily. Try putting the system unit sans case in a freezer. I
|
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read someone's post in another sub-tree of this thread and he said he used to
|
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do that with minis. :)
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>I have a AMD DX-40 myself, and I changed to clock selector of the mother
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>board from 40Mhz to 50Mhz
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>, and now I have a DX-50 :) and without any glitches or over heating :) (I
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>also have always had a cpu cooler fan on it though :)
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Cool. I'll try that with my AMD 386DX-40. :-)
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>SO in basic answer to your question, No you can't. You will need a new chip
|
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>to do what you want.. But i would suggest you try the 50Mhz idea, it
|
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>increase all system aspects by 25% :) I'm happy.
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--
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Richard Cooley Extraordinaire "Yeah. Arrgh."
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rcooley96@dgl.ssc.mass.edu These are my opinions, not MIT's etc...
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|
rcooley@nyx.cs.du.edu Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux
|
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"LILO - it's not just a boot loader, it's a way of life" -- me
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|
From: Matthew Osborne <mo@pineapple.apmaths.uwo.ca>
|
|
Subject: Linux doom and PPP
|
|
Date: 10 Oct 1994 02:54:37 GMT
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Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me where I can get Linux doom?
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Also, is there any easy way to configure PPP like there is for slip? Dial
|
|
up program, default scripts, etc... Any help woild be great!
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|
From: edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (E. Robert Tisdale)
|
|
Subject: Re: SW Technologies
|
|
Date: 13 Oct 1994 11:49:25 -0700
|
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|
|
In article <37jbt2$19q@pad-thai.cam.ov.com>
|
|
jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
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|
|
|
>Furthermore, my bank was *thought* I've bounced checks a number of times since
|
|
>then (because of errors on their part, not on mine),
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|
It seems that SWT is not the only business with which you have disagreements.
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|
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>3) My bank pays checks that they think I've bounced, even when they're large,
|
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>because they know I'm good for the money (I do, after all, have a savings
|
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>account with them with enough money in it to cover the checks, and I've never
|
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>written a check I didn't have enough money to cover from my combined
|
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>accounts), and because they can charge me the $20 bouncing fee even if they
|
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>pay the check. SWT's bank refused to pay their rubber check (implying,
|
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>perhaps, that the bank doesn't have faith in their ability to cover it?).
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|
|
Apparently, you are suggesting that Marvin Wu switch to an account or a bank
|
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that offers overdraft protection.
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|
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>I might still be angry at SWT about wasting my time and making me pay
|
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>shipping, but if they had apologized for bouncing the check and offered to pay
|
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>the $4 charge my bank charged me, my opinion of them would be many notches
|
|
>higher than it is now.
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|
This disturbs me. It is one thing to use the net to warn people and tell
|
|
them about a bad experience that you had. It is quite another thing to use
|
|
the net to extort money from people even if it is just $4. If you think
|
|
that you have a legitimate claim against SWT, you should take Mr. Wu to
|
|
small claims court. Just contact the County Court Clerk in Richardson,
|
|
Texas. If you get a judgement against Marvin Wu, you can recover all of
|
|
your expenses as well as the $4. My personal opinion is that you don't
|
|
have a prayer unless Marvin fails to show up in court. The simple fact
|
|
is that Marvin never agreed to pay for any of your banking fees and that
|
|
you did agree to pay for all shipping charges. He doesn't owe you anything.
|
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|
You needn't reply but I'm sure you can't resist having the last word.
|
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Bob Tisdale
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From: demarest@rerf.or.jp (Timothy Demarest)
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|
Subject: Re: Syquest and Linux
|
|
Date: 13 Oct 1994 11:49:04 GMT
|
|
|
|
Georg Pietrek (pietrek@euklid.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
|
|
: I have a Syquest drive (SCSI, 270 MB) and my question is very
|
|
: simple (hopefully the answer will be simple, too):
|
|
: How can I use it with Linux ?
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|
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: Bye
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: Georg
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|
|
Install it like a normal SCSI device and it is ready to go. Get the
|
|
SCSI-Howto and you should be set. I am using a 3270 as /dev/sda
|
|
and it works great. Once it is installed, insert a cart, spin up,
|
|
fdisk it, mkfs it and then mount it!
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--
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|
Timothy Demarest | Radiation Effects Research Foundation| WWW: http://
|
|
demarest@rerf.or.jp| Research Information Center | aqua.rerf.or.jp/
|
|
CIS: 100212,562 | 5-2 Hijiyama Park, Minami-ku | .Inside/demarest/
|
|
| Hiroshima 732 Japan | NewChiba.html
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|
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|
|
From: demarest@rerf.or.jp (Timothy Demarest)
|
|
Subject: Re: Anyone using P90-Plato-INTEL board under LINUX???
|
|
Date: 13 Oct 1994 11:50:52 GMT
|
|
|
|
Tilo Schuerer (tilo@ftat64.ee.TU-Berlin.DE) wrote:
|
|
: Hy,
|
|
|
|
: I indent to buy an Pentium P90 INTEL Board, which
|
|
: has the nicname "Plato" Because I never heart anything
|
|
: about that board I wonder if anybody already used it
|
|
: sucessfully under LINUX.
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|
|
|
: If there is enough interest I will summarize on the net.
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|
|
: I'm looking forward your responses!
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: Thanks a lot,
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|
: Tilo
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|
|
: ------------------------
|
|
: tilo@cs.tu-berlin.de
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|
|
Tilo:
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|
|
|
I have Linux running on a system using the Plato Premier PCI II. Everything
|
|
works great. I am using an old Adaptec 1542C, so if you decide to go with
|
|
the NCR SCSI board, you may have some tricky things to do to get it to work.
|
|
--
|
|
Timothy Demarest | Radiation Effects Research Foundation| WWW: http://
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|
demarest@rerf.or.jp| Research Information Center | aqua.rerf.or.jp/
|
|
CIS: 100212,562 | 5-2 Hijiyama Park, Minami-ku | .Inside/demarest/
|
|
| Hiroshima 732 Japan | NewChiba.html
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|
|
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
|
|
Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
|
|
Date: 11 Oct 1994 12:55:20 -0400
|
|
|
|
In article <jeffpkCxHt9G.65o@netcom.com>,
|
|
Jeff Kesselman <jeffpk@netcom.com> wrote:
|
|
>Pardon? Thats what I said, I believe, if you read the whole post. I
|
|
>don't see that your read() is relevent, however. As long as your kernel
|
|
>is not single-tasking and blocking (as opposed to waiting, an example of
|
|
>such a blocking kernel is OS-9) then you shoudl be able to process eitehr
|
|
>in another thread OR another process.
|
|
|
|
The UNIX kernel has no clue about "threads". All it sees are
|
|
processes. The UNIX kernel cannot schedule a thread becuase it
|
|
it doesn't know what one is*. Therefore in a non-threading kernel,
|
|
the only way to schedule a thread is to schedule the whole process.
|
|
|
|
It's not just an "implementation detail". The underlying UNIX kernel
|
|
has to be radically altered in order to do thread scheduling.
|
|
|
|
It's true that the terminology is muddied often, but that's not
|
|
an excuse to use the wrong terminology. A thread is not really
|
|
a true thread of execution if its execution depends on another
|
|
task (a process) getting scheduled. It's like the difference
|
|
between pre-emptive and co-operative multitasking. Sure,
|
|
MS-Windows does do multiple tasks mostly simulataneously, but
|
|
it's not the same as true multitasking.
|
|
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|
* of course exepting the more modern UNIXes that do threading.
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--Dave
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