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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 08:13:04 EST
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #511
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Linux-Development Digest #511, Volume #1 Tue, 1 Mar 94 08:13:04 EST
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Contents:
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Re: Linux and X WordPerfect (Eric Youngdale)
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GCC/++ Shared Linkage (Iain Bryson)
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CThreads (D. Robert Adams)
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LINUX FOR SUN (Stuart Tener)
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Attention Linux Adaptec developers (David Rapchun)
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Help! GCC errors (Dean Junk)
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Re: sysvinit-2.5 and bash-1.13.5 problem! [SOLUTION] (Neal Becker)
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Re: Serial problem with 0.99.15: tty65: input overrun (Roland Rosenfeld)
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Re: Specialix driver (Tim Smith)
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Re: Specialix driver (Raul Deluth Miller)
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Re: Specialix driver (Robert Sanders)
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Re: GOD SPEAKS ON LINUX! (Alan)
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Lint for Linux? (Niels J. Bagger)
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Re: [ANSWER] Re: ipcs utility (David Bonn)
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High dot freq. (94.5Mhz) => some miscoloured pixels (Kraen David Christensen)
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Re: Serious 80386 bug (Rafal Maszkowski)
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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
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Subject: Re: Linux and X WordPerfect
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 03:04:12 GMT
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In article <2ktvff$cbc@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
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> Other than the size difference, is there any technical reason why
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>Linux shouldn't just adopt the ELF format as the native binary format?
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>(Debugging C++?)
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Yes. The GNU as and ld do not support ELF shared libraries. No one is
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working on this right now, so it is not at all clear when this will become
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available. Switching the native format has been discussed, but until we get
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gas and ld going it will just be idle talk. If anyone wants to dig into the
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bowels of ld and bfd (not for anyone with a weak heart), this would make a good
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project.
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-Eric
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--
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
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And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."
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From: iain@ECE.Concordia.CA (Iain Bryson)
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Subject: GCC/++ Shared Linkage
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 00:31:56 GMT
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Hi all.
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I've been writing code with Linux for a while now, and only just
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recently 'noticed' the file sizes of my executables. They're
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so big I came to the cerebral conclusion that they are NOT
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using the shared libraries (300K for an small X proggie).
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How do I USE the shared libraries? If there is a standard
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way, will the same makefiles work with SunOS also?
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Thank-you (please use e-mail.)
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--
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_________________________________________ ______________________
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/ Iain Bryson, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. \/ Things I do: \
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| being ||lie about things I do.|
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\_________________________________________/\______________________/
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/ "Now we're cooking with evil gas!" - Sir Simon Milligan, KITH \
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From: adams@ms.uky.edu (D. Robert Adams)
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Subject: CThreads
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Date: 28 Feb 1994 20:09:08 -0500
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I'm looking for a C-Threads package for Linux. Is there such a thing?
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-Robert
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adams@dcs.uky.edu
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University of Kentucky
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Department of Computer Science
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From: stuart@jane.sas.upenn.edu (Stuart Tener)
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Subject: LINUX FOR SUN
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Date: 1 Mar 1994 03:44:56 GMT
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LINUX FOR SUN (IPC, IPX, Classic, LX, etc.)
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Does it exist?
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where do I get it?
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what will it cost?
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reply via email: stuart@jane.sas.upenn.edu
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(310)-358-0202
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thanks
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From: rapchun@jawbreaker.sdsu.edu (David Rapchun)
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Subject: Attention Linux Adaptec developers
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Date: 1 Mar 1994 01:30:40 GMT
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Hello, I need some help. I recently got a new Adaptec 2742T controller and sold
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off my 1542B thinking I must press on with future development to stay current.
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My main mission is to run Linux and I cant because it wont recognize this card.
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To whoever is writing the driver (hopefully you r reading this now) could you please
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give me some feedback on the status. Thanx a lot.
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Dave.
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******************************************************************************
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* No one shall wield Excalibur but me! *
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* Give us the eye! *
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* When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master! *
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******************************************************************************
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From: us292121@bulldog.mmm.com (Dean Junk)
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Subject: Help! GCC errors
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Date: 1 Mar 1994 05:13:26 GMT
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I just upgraded to .99.15 kernel from .99.14 kernel along with the
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following libraries:
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ld.so.1.4.3
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libc.so.4.5.21
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libm.so.4.5.21
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and the following tar archives:
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image-4.5.21
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inc-4.5.21
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I am having the following problem compiling xmix:
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/usr/lib/libgcc.sa(__libc.o): Definition of symbol __NEEDS_SHRLIB_libc_4 (multiply defined)
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/usr/lib/libc.sa(__libc.o): Definition of symbol __NEEDS_SHRLIB_libc_4 (multiply defined)
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make: *** [xmix] Error 1
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Do you have any ideas? I have everything else working great but this!
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System setup:
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386DX-40 AMD
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16MB Memory
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2-250 WD IDE HD's
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Mitsumi CD-ROM
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SB Multi-CD 16 card
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Conner 250MB Tape Backup
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3.5" Floppy
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5.25" Floppy
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14400 Pract Per modem
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Linux .99.15 from sunsite.unc.edu
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gcc 2.4.5
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xfree 2.0
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Thanks,
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--
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Dean Junk "An ounce of perception, a pound of obscure"
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Internet (dpjunk@mmm.com) --RUSH
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From: neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Re: sysvinit-2.5 and bash-1.13.5 problem! [SOLUTION]
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Date: 28 Feb 1994 22:08:45 GMT
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Seriously, here is a real solution. Use 'killall' that comes with
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sysvinit-2.5. Works fine.
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Yes, my problem was that I had a full-featured /bin/bash and a
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stripped-down /bin/sh.
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But killall works fine in any case. But you need to use the killall
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that comes with sysvinit-2.5, and not some other thing that happens to
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have the same name but does something different :(
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 15:12:35 MET
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From: Roland_Rosenfeld@p13.flokiste.fido.de (Roland Rosenfeld)
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Subject: Re: Serial problem with 0.99.15: tty65: input overrun
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Hi!
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Lcvanveen (lcvanveen@et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
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> >> Feb 5 14:05:44 whitney kernel: tty65: input overrun
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> >> I *DO* have a 16550A, and while I do have the serial port cranked up to
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> >> 57.6k, I only have a 9600 hooked up to it, and a .gz file is not
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> >> very compressible,
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> I use 0.99pl13 with a normal (slow) 16450 chip and it even runs
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> without trouble when doing 38k4 on a null-modem line. Maybe you got
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> something wrong with the inittab and other setting files. Try looking
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> around there first.
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Lucky one!
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It realy isn't normal that 38400 works with an 16450 without problems
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if there ist much traffic on the line. If you use only a simple
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terminal on the other side of the line, you won't run into problems,
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but if you use it with term and uploads per term, there is much more
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traffic and more errors occure.
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I switched down the speed from 38400 to 19200 on the Linux-PC and on
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the Sun on the other side and the errors gone away and the speed rises
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from 1000-3000 CPS to 2000 CPS constantly).
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Bye
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Roland
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* Roland_Rosenfeld@p13.flokiste.fido.de * Fido: 2:2450/300.13 *
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From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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Subject: Re: Specialix driver
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Date: 1 Mar 1994 09:07:27 GMT
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Wayne Schlitt <wayne@cse.unl.edu> wrote:
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>> Given the potential legal problems outlined above (I think there were 75
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>> different interpretations in those 100 messages), most of us are willing
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>> to "just say no" and focus in a market w/o these hassles.
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>
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>First:
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> Don't listen to us random net loonies. We have no power to back up
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> our words.
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There are more ways to back up words than suing. If a bunch of random net
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loonies go around telling potential users of your product that the product
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is illegal, immoral, frightens horses, and spoils milk, that can hurt sales
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even if none of it is true.
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--Tim Smith
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From: rockwell@nova.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller)
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Subject: Re: Specialix driver
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Date: 28 Feb 1994 22:26:38 -0500
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Is anybody that cares reading this stuff?
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Donald Becker:
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> ... under the copyright. It *is* a derivative work because it
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> required the unique existing GPL code to develop it. Few readers
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> would disagree that a ...
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Kai Henningsen:
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This can't be. Otherwise, each and every program built with gcc
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that uses *any* gcc extension would fall under the GPL, and the FSF
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explicitely states that this is *not* the case.
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This is an irrelevant issue -- though one I've seen much comment on.
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Programs produced by gcc are no more copyrighted than programs editted
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by emacs. The gcc libraries [which may be held analogous to blank
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form letters] have a special license on them different from the
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standard gpl.
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gcc isn't the issue here -- the serial driver won't be part of gcc.
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Linux is the issue here.
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> ... (non-trivial) patch file is covered under the terms of the
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> original copyright. Merely collecting such patch into a separate
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> object file does not change its status. (In contrast, if the
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> code in question is a separate and distinct program, then it is
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> not covered by the original copyright.)
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Ther are several issues that might be relevant here:
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(1) original form of the code [some code is _written_ in machine
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language, for instance].
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(2) maintainability of the code [a hex dump under gpl can be analyzed
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and modified -- this is completely different from a sun "you
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hereby agree to never look at our code" license].
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(3) legal precedent [best leave that one to the courts].
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(4) flamage [I see a lot of this].
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(5) propriatary considerations.
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As best I can see, including a hex dump in a gpl'd source is legal but
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not necessarily the best idea. The hex dump can't be put under a
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separate license if it's part of Linux. The hex dump is harder to
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maintain than some kind of source, but if there is no expedient way of
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including the source on Linux, then it isn't really source [though it
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might be included as documentation].
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If the object is keeping the code proprietary, then including it in a
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Linux kernel isn't the way to achieve that end. For example, there's
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nothing to stop Microsoft or Novell from redistributing Linux under
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the current license terms.
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Raul D. Miller
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<rockwell@nova.umd.edu>
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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert Sanders)
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Subject: Re: Specialix driver
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Date: 1 Mar 94 06:35:51 GMT
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tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
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>Donald J. Becker <becker@super.org> wrote:
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>>under the copyright. It *is* a derivative work because it required the
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>>unique existing GPL code to develop it. Few readers would disagree that a
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>That's not what "derivative work" means. To be a derivative work, it
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>must in some form incorporate a copyrighted portion of the work it
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>is alleged to a derivative work of.
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I don't mean to insult you, but it really surprises me how many people
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think this is the news we've all been waiting for. YOU ARE BEGGING THE
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QUESTION. The whole debate comes down to whether a "derivative work"
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must actually incorporate copyrighted code in this work's distribution,
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and what "incorporate" actually means.
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If I distribute .o files to link into the kernel, having included none
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of the include files and used no .c files distributed with the kernel,
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have I not created a derivative work? If not, then the GPL is and has
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been meaningless for a long time. Prior cases like this (though not
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exactly like), such as the NeXT/Objective-C case, seem to say that
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this is indeed a derivative work. Now, people are arguing that drivers
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loaded into the kernel via the "modules" code are not covered by the
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GPL. Eh? Has anyone looked at what the 'insmod' program actually does?
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It's a link editor. It's basically just 'ld' with some kernel hooks.
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Looks like a clear case to me. If linking NeXT's Objective-C .o
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files with gcc was a case of *NeXT* creating a derivative work, then
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linking Company X's .o files into the kernel is also.
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And, yes, before anyone else announces it, I think we all recognize
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that the Specialix download driver must be available as source,
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but the downloaded code need not.
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--
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_g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_
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W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W
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`*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
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From: bubsy@pdmax.muug.mb.ca (Alan)
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Subject: Re: GOD SPEAKS ON LINUX!
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 07:51:02 GMT
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God (God@Up.There.Above) wrote:
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: THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE LORD!
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: HEAR MY COMMAND: LINUX IS THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE ANTICHRIST AND
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: ANYONE WHO SO USES IT IS COMMITING A SIN!
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: I COMMAND ALL THOSE THAT USE LINUX TO IMMEDIATELY AND REPENT THEIR
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: EVIL SINS! FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH AND USERS OF LINUX SHALL
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: DEFINITELY FACE A FATE IN THE FIERY LAKE OF DEATH IF THEY DO NOT ADMIT
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: THE ERROR OF THE WAYS!
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: NOW, CAST AWAY ALL TRACES OF THE EVIL LINUX FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH,
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: NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
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: THE END IS NEAR FOR LINUX AND ITS USERS, AND ALL THOSE WHO REVEL IN THEIR
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: SINFUL USAGE. COME AND CLEANSE YOUR SOULS AND DISKS FROM THE DAMNATION OF
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: THIS DARK OPERATING SYSTEM!
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: HEAR, FOR THE LORD SPEAKS!
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Path: pdmax!mona.muug.mb.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!
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decwrl!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ssf.nasa.gov!
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heaven-gate!up.there.above!God
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Hints to find out where GOD Live!!
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From: elmnjb@unidhp.uni-c.dk (Niels J. Bagger)
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Subject: Lint for Linux?
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 11:59:24 GMT
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As the title says: Does lint(1) exist for Linux?
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It's for friend, 'cause I never make mistakes... :-))
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| _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ | Niels J. Bagger, M.Sc.E.E. |
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| _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ | Technical University of Denmark |
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| Electromagnetics Institute | e-mail: njb@emi.dth.dk |
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From: bonn@badger.networx.com (David Bonn)
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Subject: Re: [ANSWER] Re: ipcs utility
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Date: 28 Feb 1994 18:23:28 GMT
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Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
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: ipcs and ipcrm have been around since the first days of Linux ipc. I
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: think they are currently distributed as part of the util-linux-1.5
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: package, which you should be able to find on any of the major Linux
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: archive sites.
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I found these in the util-linux-1.5 distribution kit. My distribution didn't
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have them, and I went on a wild goose chase.
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An implementation that works and is already written is inevitably better than
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a new implementation. Writing the /proc/ipc was a fun exercise in hacking the
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kernel, but I think nearly all Linux people would be happier with the existing
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ipcs utility.
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--
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David Bonn "it's an attitude"
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bonn@networx.com
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From: kdc@iesd.auc.dk (Kraen David Christensen)
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Subject: High dot freq. (94.5Mhz) => some miscoloured pixels
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Date: 24 Feb 1994 14:06:00 GMT
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Environment: Linux running Xfree 2.0 (from slackware 1.1.1) on a
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386-40 with 387 128kB cache, 8 MB RAM, ISA bus.
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I have a S3-801 chip based graphiccard (1 MB DRAM) and a 17" eizo
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F550i. I run 1152x800 non-interlaced. First I did so with a dot
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freq. at 75 Mhz, but that noly gave round 60Hz screen-update
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freq. While both card and monitor can do better I rasied the dot
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freq. to 94.5 Mhz witch gave a much more flicker free picture. But
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when many colours are in use on the screen, some pixels on the screen
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(very few) gets a wrong colour (at a dot freq. at 75Mhz this does not
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happen!). I can then refresh screen from the menu in openwindows and
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the screen is fine again.
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Trying to locate why, I also tried down-accelerating my cpu to 20Mhz
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after which there was no problem, except from the loss of performance.
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[It seems to me that it is a conflict between the 386-40 cpu and the
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S3-801 chip in acces to the 1 MB DRAM on the videocard?]
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Anybody have a reasen or a solution I would like hearing about it.
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--
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/ Kraen D. Christensen
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From: rzm@oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski)
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Subject: Re: Serious 80386 bug
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 08:20:47 GMT
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WE Metzenthen (billm@jacobi.maths.monash.edu.au) wrote:
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> Running 'crashme' on my Linux system for a few hours caused my
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> machine to hang. After a few hours of investigation I found the
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> cause. It is due to a serious bug in the microcode of some 80386's.
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My machine is also hanged by crash (when I'm using an example from the
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man page it is subproc. 25, try 3) and it hanged immediately after
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starting your program. I'm not sure what is the exact processor type
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although. It is 386DX/20 but it has a radiator over it so I can't see
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the type description. There is also a coprocessor. We have a similar
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machine here (bought a month later) and text on the CPU is: "A80386DX-20
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L8450327 '85 '86 and two uppercase sigmas. Maybe I'll ask my
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SysAdm to exchange the CPUs and will see what happens.
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R.
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--
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Rafal Maszkowski rzm@oso.chalmers.se rzm@mat.uni.torun.pl <-finger for public
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snail: Omgangen 464-82, 412-80 Goteborg, Sweden; tel: +46-31-7780831 key
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Opinia publiczna powinna byc zaalarmowana swoim nieistnieniem - St. J. Lec
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