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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: Sun, 11 Sep 94 10:13:05 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #155
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Linux-Development Digest #155, Volume #2 Sun, 11 Sep 94 10:13:05 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Alpha Linux (Herbert Xu)
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Re: Don't use Linux?! (Kevin Martinez)
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Re: DOSEMU 0.53pl18 und 1.1.49 : Serial Problems (Rob Janssen)
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Re: Not identifying ST-506 drives (was: Re: IDE Hard Drives w/ over 1024 cylinders) (Rob Janssen)
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Re: atdisk2 and E-IDE (Rob Janssen)
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Re: GoldStar VLB IDE controller (Rob Janssen)
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Re: 3c509 Problems (Rob Janssen)
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Re: Alpha Linux (Rob Janssen)
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Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Olli Vinberg)
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New 53c400 patch (Kevin Lentin)
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[SOLUTION] DOSEMU 0.53pl18 : Serial Problems (James MacLean)
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Re: Don't use Linux?! (Michaela Merz)
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Re: Digi Intelligent Boards? (William C. Fenner)
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Re: Alpha Linux (N J Plant)
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RFD: Linux and end-users (Was: Don't use Linux?!) (Ted Harding)
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Kernel change summary 1.1.49 -> 1.1.50 (Russell Nelson)
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From: herbert@greathan.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
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Subject: Re: Alpha Linux
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 12:54:58 +1000
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David Holland (dholland@husc7.harvard.edu) wrote:
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: adc@bach.coe.neu.edu's message of 06 Sep 1994 16:38:15 GMT said:
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: > Why drop one?
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: > 16 bits = short int
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: > 32 bits = int
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: > 64 bits = long
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: Over in the next thread people were talking about Unicode; why not
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: 16 bits = char
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: 32 bits = short
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: 64 bits = int, long
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: Of course that would break a lot of things, but such is the price of
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: progress :-)
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Only non-ANSI conforming C codes.
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--
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A. B <=> True B. A <=> False
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Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>
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PGP Key: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu or any other key sites
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From: Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net>
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Subject: Re: Don't use Linux?!
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 23:04:51 GMT
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hightec@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Michael Schumacher) writes:
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> the box", no reasonable documentation is available, nor hotline support.
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> What will happen? I'm quite sure that most of these desperated people
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> will close the Linux chapter - forever.
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This is a joke? Have you ever tried to get hotline support for Netware?
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$200 up front, then wait for them to call back! (2 days in the case I am
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familiar with). Try getting hotline support from Macrosoft: tell them
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that "xcopy" trashes your command history. Will they lift a finger?
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h0h0h0h0 (and you are on a 900 number paying by the minute!)
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I called a major hardware vendor that our corporation has "special"
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support available. I wanted to know why I couldn't get certain transfer
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modes working with a certain hard disk. The response was silly: Was it
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plugged in? powered on? (Yes, this was *technical* support!).
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How about Sun Microsystems? They are certainly a commercial operation.
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Ask them to make hardware flow control work properly. (to their credit,
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it is half fixed but the bug history goes back to the mid-80s at least)
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Our corporation seems to have a very effective support line: put them on
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hold and play elevator music and they go away after an hour or so. I
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doubt this is the "official" policy that we tell the customer but I get
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complaints from people that know where I work.....
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As far as I can tell, support seems to rely on "the good 'ole boy"
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network and that is just what the Linux community is all about!
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P.S. Linux is not for the person who uses a computer because he/she is
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required to; it is for the person who enjoys their computer and looks for
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ways to enjoy it further....
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--
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========================================================================
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Kevin Martinez lps@rahul.net Member of the Julie Kangas Fan Club
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Work: 1 800 I FEEL OK Home: 1 510 676 1111
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: DOSEMU 0.53pl18 und 1.1.49 : Serial Problems
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:10:05 GMT
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In <1994Sep8.193016.470@yacc.central.de> engel@yacc.central.de (C. Engelmann) writes:
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>root@fabsoft2.zarm.uni-bremen.de (Martin Cornelius) wrote:
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>>I just successfully installed Kernel 1.1.49 and Dosemu 0.53pl18,
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>>but the serial Ports seem to be not working at all. When I try
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>>to install the MS mouse-driver or the Logimouse driver, they
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>>both say that no mouse can be found. Also, Procomm cannot access
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>>the ports. I'm sure the harware is o.k. as i can use the ports
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>>with kermit, selection and X. The serial entries in my dosemu.conf
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>>didn't change since dosemu 0.52, where everything worked fine.
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>>Any Hints ??
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>Not a hint, but the same problem using kernel 1.1.44.
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>DOSEMU locks up if I try to load the mouse driver.
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>Under X things are working well(the first time !).
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Get the next (0.53pl19) DOSEMU... That is said to fix the problem.
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Not identifying ST-506 drives (was: Re: IDE Hard Drives w/ over 1024 cylinders)
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:14:58 GMT
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In <9409091592@fangorn> Michael Haardt <(michael)u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
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>davism@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Mitch Davis) writes:
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>> I used to think this was because the ST-506 interface was so old that
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>> no-one was particularly bothered about identifying it. But from the
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>> quoted message above, it appears _something_ in the kernel knows it's
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>> an ST-506....
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>Yes, I don't have a clue why it was done that way. The following patch
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>fixes it:
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> if (unmask_intr[dev])
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> sti();
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> if (stat & (BUSY_STAT|ERR_STAT))
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>! printk ("hd%c: ST506 interface, %dMB, CHS=%d/%d/%d\n",
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>! dev+'a',hd_info[dev].cyl*hd_info[dev].head*hd_info[dev].sect/2048,hd_info[dev].cyl,hd_info[dev].head,hd_info[dev].sect);
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> else {
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> insw(HD_DATA, (char *)&id, sizeof(id)/2); /* get ID bytes */
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> max_mult[dev] = id.max_multsect;
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>Once I sent this to Linus, but no response. IDE drives can tell you
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>their parameters, whereas for ST506 interface drives, you need to
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>believe the BIOS, which may be incorrent. Nevertheless, I like to see
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>the parameters at booting.
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You wouldn't believe how much stir-up a small patch like this can sometimes
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cause. I think Linus has become more careful before incorporating things
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like this....
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(e.g. at one time a "small patch that makes a PS/1 disk recognized and seems
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to be harmless" caused a lot of messages from people that did not have
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an IDE/ST506 disk at all, and complained that it was still "recognized"...)
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Moral: before you submit it, test it on some friends machines (including
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machines with unusual configurations like ESDI or only-SCSI) and submit
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it including a statement that this caused no problems.
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Rob
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--
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: atdisk2 and E-IDE
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:17:48 GMT
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In <rkwtgs.302.2E718281@pukrs3.puk.ac.za> rkwtgs@pukrs3.puk.ac.za (Theo Scott) writes:
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>Hi,
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>I've got a 2nd IDE controller (with a drive) on IRQ-15.
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>I've apllied the patch and it worked but only with a drive with <= 16 heads
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>The one drive that I want to use is a Conner with 17 heads.
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>I saw in the "hd.c" that Mark Lord made some inprovements so that
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>1st Controller can use a drive with >16 heads. Does anyone knows of
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>a patch for "hd1.c" ? The patch for using >16 heads on "hd.c" would
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>be fine to. Any ftp sites ?
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Here you see the exact reason why the atdisk2 patches will be reworked
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before they are accepted into the main release :-)
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: GoldStar VLB IDE controller
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:21:09 GMT
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In <1994Sep10.151839.18366@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> yuvalt@black.weizmann.ac.il (Tal Yuval) writes:
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>I have a GoldStar VLB IDE controller. Linux seems to work fine with it.
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>However, along with the controller I got a diskette with device drivers which
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>seem to boost things. Did someone hack the kernel to use GoldStar's
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>functions?
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You can't use DOS drivers with Linux.
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Instead, ask GoldStar what the drivers do, and you cna incorporate
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similar functionality in the Linux drivers...
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: 3c509 Problems
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:36:58 GMT
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In <34tbn3$6nv@dns.crocker.com> matthew@crocker.com (Matthew S. Crocker) writes:
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>Danek Duvall (duvall@sage.wlu.edu) wrote:
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>: I recently set up my 3Com Etherlink III Combo on my linux machine.
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>: The first boot after the network stuff was configured, it worked fine.
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>: In fact, it worked fine continuously for over a day. Then, today, I
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>: was having some problems compiling and installing sendmail, I rebooted
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>: my machine. At that point, I couldn't find anything on the network.
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>: I hadn't changed any relevant pieces of the network config files, so
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>: it couldn't have been that. Then I checked /var/adm/messages, which
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>: had the line:
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>: eth0: Missed interrupt, status then 2011 now 2011 Tx 00 Rx 383c
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>I get this every once and a while too (on my 486-66 VLB/ISA) I never
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>get it on my P5-90 PCI/ISA. Do you get it when you do a hard boot?
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>try shutdown -h now then press teh reset button... I only get it when
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>I shutdown -r now or 'reboot'
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Same on the machine I use at work (486/33). It only issues the message
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on a CTRL-ALT-DEL reboot. But it has never caused a hard problem for
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me, other than dropping the first packet.
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When the problem Danek has is the same, there is something else that has
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caused the networking to die and the "Missed interrupt" is not the
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cause.
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However, there is another datapoint I can add: someone at work tried
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CTRL-ALT-DEL booting a system that had been running as a Novell Netware
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server just before, into Linux. This really freaked out the 3c509 driver...
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It issued continuous error messages which he unfortunately did not write
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down. Probably it can be repeated when required.
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I think the 3c509 driver does not completely initialize the card, and
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relies on some power-on defaults that are no longer valid after a warm
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boot. Could that be true, Donald?
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Alpha Linux
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:42:35 GMT
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In <im14u2c.779230562@cegt201> im14u2c@cegt201.bradley.edu (Joe Zbiciak) writes:
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>In <JEM.94Sep10192807@delta.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
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>>What is the natural word size of the 68000? Or the 8088? Or a
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>Even better: The 68008... 8 bit data path, 16 bit registers, 32 bit ALU.
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>By 32 bit ALU, I mean two registers would combine together and make a 32 bit
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>register for ADD & SUB and MUL & DIV (I think.)
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Actually, the 68008 has only a 16-bit ALU and performs 32-bit ADD and SUB
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operations using muliple passes. It can't even perform 32-bit MUL and DIV.
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The natural word size of a 68000/68008 is 16 bits. For a 68020 it would
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be 32 bits.
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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From: vinberg@cc.Helsinki.FI (Olli Vinberg)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 15:09:02 +0300
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Reply-To: Olli Vinberg <vinberg@cc.helsinki.fi>
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In article <1994Sep10.202313.3057@titan.central.de>,
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Andreas Matthias <andy@titan.central.de> wrote:
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>: So.... 320x200 resolution anyone? :)
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>: I'll post if I figure out how to do it.
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>I have one that's working here (ET4000 with 17'' AOC monitor), but it
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>occupies only about half of the screen in vertical direction. I did
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>not find out how to make it bigger vertically. Perhaps someone else
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>can continue with this:
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>**********************************************************************
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>ModeDB
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># name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
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> "320x200" 25 320 360 424 440 200 200 240 250
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>**********************************************************************
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I seriously doupt that your monitor can handle that kind of
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refresh-rates.. Te above modedb-entry would mean a refresh-rate of
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250Hz!!! I tried to make a 320x200 too, and the closest I got was
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500x400 with a refresh-rate of 100Hz.
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Olli Vinberg \ Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name.
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vinberg@cc.helsinki.fi \ Thy programs run, thy syscalls done,
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~vinberg \ in kernel as it is in user!
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From: kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin)
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Subject: New 53c400 patch
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 12:57:58 GMT
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I've uploaded a new version of my 53c400 (T130B) Scsi patches. They are
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functionally identical to the previous set but some of the patches in the
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40's affected the NCR code and my patch stopped working flawlessly. Here is
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the .lsm entry
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Begin3
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Title: Patch to Linux 1.1.49+ for 53c400/t130b scsi
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Version: 1(beta)
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Entered-date: 18/8/94
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Description: These patches allow the Trantor T130B and any other
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NCR53c400 based card to work with the Generic NCR5380 SCSI driver
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under Linux. Ineterupts and PSEUDO-DMA are supported. This will
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become part of the development kernel eventually.
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This also includes some patches from Drew Eckhardt to do with
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resets and aborts as well as some timing issues. I couldn't be
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bothered separating them out. They'll all go in eventually anyway.
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Keywords: SCSI T130B NCR5380 NCR53C400
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Author: kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin)
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Maintained-by: kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin)
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Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi
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13k 53c400.tar.gz
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Alternate-site:
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Original-site:
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Platform: Linux 1.1.49+
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Copying-policy: GPL
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End
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--
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[==================================================================]
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[ Kevin Lentin |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\__/~\__/~\_| ]
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[ kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au |___/~\/~\_____/~\______/~\/~\__| ]
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[ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!' |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\____/~~\___| ]
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[==================================================================]
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From: jmaclean@localhost (James MacLean)
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Subject: [SOLUTION] DOSEMU 0.53pl18 : Serial Problems
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Date: 10 Sep 1994 23:43:48 -0300
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Martin Cornelius (root@fabsoft2.zarm.uni-bremen.de) wrote:
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: I just successfully installed Kernel 1.1.49 and Dosemu 0.53pl18,
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: but the serial Ports seem to be not working at all. When I try
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: to install the MS mouse-driver or the Logimouse driver, they
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: both say that no mouse can be found. Also, Procomm cannot access
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: the ports. I'm sure the harware is o.k. as i can use the ports
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: with kermit, selection and X. The serial entries in my dosemu.conf
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: didn't change since dosemu 0.52, where everything worked fine.
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: Any Hints ??
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: ----------------------------------------------------
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: Martin Cornelius, ZARM-FAB, Uni Bremen 0421-218-4807
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: Hochschulring / Am Fallturm 28359 BREMEN
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: ----------------------------------------------------
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A strong hint is to try:
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tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/private/devel/pre53_19.tgz
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&
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tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/private/devel/pre53_19.dif.gz
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as the serial SHOULD be back in working order.
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Thanks for all who E-mailed me about this one.
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JES
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From: misch@elara.fsag.de (Michaela Merz)
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Subject: Re: Don't use Linux?!
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 04:13:15 GMT
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Bogdan Urma wrote in article <34sref$klu@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> :
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>Michael Schumacher (hightec@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de) wrote:
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>
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>: Hello Linuxers!
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>
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>: Okay. Before you start sending me endless flames, I want to make sure
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>: that you know that I *love* Linux. It's probably the best PC Un*x you
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>
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> That's pretty funny, since Maple V Release 3 has just been ported to Linux.
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>
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>Bogdan
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He is _perfectly_ right! There a thousands of programs. Maple is _just_
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one of them ...
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mm.
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---
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The
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Free Software (Phone) ++49-69-6312083
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Association of Germany, FSAG We have a target!
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From: fenner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (William C. Fenner)
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Subject: Re: Digi Intelligent Boards?
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 13:14:30 GMT
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In article <Cvnn6J.33C@wimpol.demon.co.uk>,
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Simon Park <si@wimpol.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>AFAIK there are no Linux drivers available for any of the
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>intelligent serial cards.
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Someone from Arnet told me that there was a Linux driver available for
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the Arnet Smartport; I haven't gotten a reply back telling me how to get
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it, though.
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Bill
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--
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Bill Fenner fenner@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
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From: nick@lepton.demon.co.uk (N J Plant)
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Subject: Re: Alpha Linux
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Reply-To: nick@lepton.demon.co.uk
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:34:09 +0000
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In article <im14u2c.779230562@cegt201>
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im14u2c@cegt201.bradley.edu "Joe Zbiciak" writes:
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>
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>In <JEM.94Sep10192807@delta.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
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>writes:
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>
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>>What is the natural word size of the 68000? Or the 8088? Or a
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>
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>Even better: The 68008... 8 bit data path, 16 bit registers, 32 bit ALU.
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>By 32 bit ALU, I mean two registers would combine together and make a 32 bit
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>register for ADD & SUB and MUL & DIV (I think.)
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>
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On the 68000 the external address bus is 20 bits and the external data bus
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is 8. Internally, the registers, buses and ALU are all 32 bit. It can ADD
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and SUBtract 32 bit numbers or MULtiply 2 16 bit numbers to give a 32 bit
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result. It has fewer pins than a 68040, but its still a 32 bit chip. The
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sizeof the integral types should be the same as any other 68K chip.
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The Intel 8088 has a 20 bit address bus, but is otherwise an 8 bit device.
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So:
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short = 8 bits
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int = 16 bits
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long = 16 bits
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Neither of these processors has the address space or MMU necessary for
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Linux to run on them, so the natural word size is irrelevant.
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>How do you define the "natural wordsize" nowadays?
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On the alpha the instruction word length is 32 bits. The registers are
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64 bit and there is plenty of them. I'd go for:
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short = 32 bits To save memory on kernal data structures which need
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to be in our level 2 cache.
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int = 64 bits Small enough to avoid any significant performance
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penalty on file system hashing. Large enough for the
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next generation of disk drives.
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long = 128 bits Large enough for most other purposes.
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Nick
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From: Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
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Subject: RFD: Linux and end-users (Was: Don't use Linux?!)
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 09:59:27 -0400
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Reply-To: Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
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And Greetings to Mike Schumacher for raising, in sane terms, a very
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worrying issue. Let me show my own IFF status and say I'm personally
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committed to Linux: it's excellent in itself, and in various ways
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outdoes many other versions of UNIX. Despite problems, the Linux
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Community Spirit provides a pretty effective user support service.
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What Linux lacks, so far, is a /good/ base of applications software.
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Say what you like about DOS (DR- or MS-), there's a huge repertoire
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of often excellent DOS-based applications software. Agreed the
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software developers started writing for DOS because everyone was
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buying PCs with DOS on them; the boot's now on the other foot - everyone
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buys DOS/Windows because that's what all the software is written for.
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An example of what's /good/ on the Linux scene: as a mathematician
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and statistician I get most of what I need computationally from 'octave';
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thank God I don't have to program from scratch what's been available
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in MatLab for DOS for years.
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An example of what's no so good: I also need spreadsheet facilities;
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'sc' is fine for small quick jobs, 'oleo' looks promising but doesn't
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seem to be there yet, and certainly doesn't go very far, and 'scc' under
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X (= sc with some graphics) roughly equals "basic use of Quattro". Not
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inadequate for modest demands, but not good enough for active professional
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life.
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An example of what's not good: I really need database facilities. The
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Linux options seem to be Ingres and Postgres. The Ingres available for
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Linux is so bare-bones as to be almost unusable (where are the menu
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interfaces, anyone?) and I haven't yet succeeded in getting Postgres
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to work. If even the now obsolescent dBase-III for DOS were ported to
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Linux this would make work a lot easier.
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(BTW in the above "need" means NEED: I have work to do). No doubt others
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can parallel these examples in their own situations.
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So the possibility of porting good DOS packages to Linux is attractive;
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they needn't be up-to-date versions since not many people would be
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stopped in their tracks by lack of the most recent capabilities. Naively,
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this looks like a good idea.
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What worries me is that /commercial/ software is a Trojan horse.
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You want a database? Sure, here, $100, good value at the price.
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You want graphics too? No, you can't access Linux graphics from within
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the database. But here's a graphics add-on at $200 that can. And so it goes.
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Back to the DOS jungle. Is this too pessimistic?
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The non-commercial alternative is the likes of John Eaton's great
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'octave' enterprise. Maybe as Linux matures, and time passes, such
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things will happen in other areas. I'm optimistic, but not expecting
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much in the near future. However, unless something happens on one front
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or the other, Linux is possibly doomed outside the "UNIX ham" world.
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My basis for hope is that so many people use it and want to carry on
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using it that positive developments are very likely.
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Mike pointed out some of the dangers arising from the shifting state
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of Linux kernels and libraries, etc. I think the time is close where
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someone has to say: "Here's a kernel; here's a system; and (above all)
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here's adequate documentation for that, and it's all - in itself - OK",
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regardless of how fast things are moving at the leading edge of Linux
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development. Then, but not before, people (e.g. myself) can decide to
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devote time to developing on top of that for their own purposes.
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" ....... I changed the subject line in the hope that
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" you carefully read what I've written, and that you now are willing to start
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" a serious discussion." (Mike)
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I hope I've understood, and this is my bit towards a serious discussion.
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I'm also willing to put my penny of effort in the kitty towards development,
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but large-scale stuff is not what I'm capable of.
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Cheers,
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Ted.
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From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.announce
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Subject: Kernel change summary 1.1.49 -> 1.1.50
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 13:59:43 GMT
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CONFIG_I_AM_A_BROKEN_BSD_WEENIE taken out of config.in
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Missed a check for the floppy device in the I/O request queuer.
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Support for detecting the "ST11 BIOS V1.7" added to XT hard disk driver.
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3c501 driver made somewhat more reliable by eliminating a critical region.
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LANCE driver improved to work with VLB NE2100 compatibles, and the HP
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J2405A and HP Vectra built-in adapter.
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AHA152x now knows about the VTech Platinum SMP.
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SCSI drivers know about the QUANTUM PD1225S.
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Oops. Memory mapper wasn't checking for failed kmalloc's.
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Moved the arphdr structure to if_arp.h for compatibility with BSD based
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programs.
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The 802.2 network handler didn't work with more than one protocol registered.
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Yet more small nasties removed from the TCP code.
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BSD accept sematics fixed.
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--
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-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html
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