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Here's one that's maybe earlier? HERE. It's advertised in the Oct. 1977 issue of Byte Magazine - I've always wanted to find one but never seen any. Besides, one scratch and your screwed. Better back it up to reel-to-reel tape quick!

Hopefully they will get their TCP stack in order too. I don't have data for Solaris 8, but the TCP performance between 7 -> 9 degraded by about 30% on the same hardware. A coworker compiled a PDF that shows uniform TCP performance degradation across a number of different block sizes and socket buffer sizes.

this crap is infiltrating critical systems throughout the Federation

Here is my mechanical TTY terminal, a VERY SIMPLE interface is all it took to get my Model 33ASR wired to a notebook running RH8, the 'history simulator' (simh) simulating a PDP/8 running OS/8 and playing BASIC games, just like a student would be doing in 1972.

(Will be adding more to the page eventually, like how to configure Linux to run a 110 baud ASCII terminal, etc. Lost my previous host!)

My old ISP switched to FreeBSD from SunOS Sys V I believe, quite some years ago. Many others did as well.

Try looking up widomaker.com on any of the nmap spoof sites out there. Betcha you'll smile... they're running FreeBSD AND they are a significantly sizeable Hampton Roads ISP. I believe the MAJOR ISP in HR also uses BSD, but I'm not sure since I've not telnetted in for ages upon centuries (1997 :) the place is VISINET

I am too lazy at the moment and too drowsy to check it myself. But I know for a fact wilma.widomaker.com is STILL running some version of free_bsd (unless they changed again VERY recently).

BSD's a capable OS, I'm not much of a user because I do a lot more hacked together work often, and BSD only ran my old file server/ httpd rig. My home boxen ran a mix of ... uhmm... red hat, debian and mandrake. Oh and as usual LinuxPPC/YellowDog 2.x on the mac.

I'm going to ask?? Why are all you folks having such a Unix vs *nix vs BSD JIHAD?! If we are to compare ourselves to the arab world... Isn't microsoft our "evil west" and Bill Gates our "great satan" type figure?!? Jeez people, we're fighting each other so to speak, while Billy boy makes a killing and leaves us hanging. And I'll take my own advice here since I recently forgot it and got into a long argument (I hate getting sucked into politics). But, if we all coded more and flamed each other less, and if we helped out the newbies, I bet we'd start stealing from the REAL big user base out there... MICROSOFT's. If BSD dies its only ONE more corpse microsoft can have strewn over their Gates of Mordor. Linux didn't win that one. Gates did, and will. And who do you think is next?! Damn straight. Billy's gonna take us down one at a time. First the weaker ones... then the strong ones. And yes Linux is at the top of the OS food chain under Bill Gates own pet. We're all supposed to have a purpose. OSS. So get back to coding, thinking or designing something cool and stop flaming each other. I know its tempting, I couldn't resist it once or twice but I caught myself. If you do flame or troll, at least post some info, some resource links so we can check, and then get back to doing something fun or useful that doesn't piss off half the damn messageboard just for the sake of pissing them off. That's just immature and stupid. That IS why nobody pays attention to us. We're all a bunch of immature little kids in the bodies of adults screaming bloody murder upon Bill gates, george bush, osama bin laden and whoever wants to hear us. Too bad we're in a cave all of our own and they locked us in.

If BSD dies... let it die on its own. Gloating doesn't help anyone. Some people put a lot of effort in that project, and if you haven't you've no right to harp on them. If you never even USED BSD, then lay off until you have, and given it a very legitimate attempt to at least get the installer completed. Show some respect, just like Linux and even parts of windows, whether the ideas were stolen, litigated or created, they were STILL worked on by someone, usually someone brilliant. And until we each can surpass those people... whether in coding or marketing or design or even legalese, we need to shut the fuck up and show some respect. If you can't show some respect to those who gave us the nice toys we now use all the time and harp about, then perhaps you'd like to still be using punch cards!

So speaking of this, I'm getting back to my work. Try to do the same. And as for the individual who modded down that post describing the disillusionment with BSD, it makes much sense. Let it stand up, replace BSD with OSS and get on with it, because the problem facing BSD has nothing to do with good code or bad code. It has to do with the george bushes and saddam husseins of the OSS community Once they finish with BSD they'll move onto another project and tear that one apart as well. Just like slashdotte

build one of these

Gee, now you did it, you went and hurt his feelings !!

You mean like this ??

No - TeSLa patented a device to transmit ENERGY - he wanted to light light bulbs w/o wires using coupled resonant RF tank coils (Take that, Edison!). Marconi was the 1st to make and install useful wireless telegraphs and built a big business, altho he infringed on Tesla's patent in doing so. The patent office didn't catch the prior art and it was overturned by the Supreme court in the 1940's.

SEE the actual Tesla patent here and note that it says ENERGY, not INFORMATION.

Let us know when they get a real antique personal computer like the Simon, circa 1950.

Be sure to check out my page linking the chief SW architect at Msft with the mascot of MAD Magazine.

is pictured here - is that undisputable enough? But seriously, in a razor close election the losers are always going to try to tip the balance by complaining about something, no matter what you do or use.

Twice this evening I've tried to get questions answered about their gpl'd smoothwall because my boss saw this slashdot article. And both times I've been nothing but insulted by Richard Morrell, the founder. The first time I was childish and incompetent all because I had the nickname 'nameless'. The second time I was k-lined from the server and he insults me because I have a german last name.

smoothwall.org.txt and smoothwall.org2.txt

Makes you wonder how these guys really act to customers.

Twice this evening I've tried to get questions answered about their gpl'd smoothwall because my boss saw this slashdot article. And both times I've been nothing but insulted by Richard Morrell, the founder. The first time I was childish and incompetent all because I had the nickname 'nameless'. The second time I was k-lined from the server and he insults me because I have a german last name.

smoothwall.org.txt and smoothwall.org2.txt

Makes you wonder how these guys really act to customers.

here is my working Simon test/prototype board - I'd love to make a 'finished' one someday (given time, $$$, and a better, faster stepping relay).

Cairo

Hey, this is another chance to plug my Bill Gates - Alfred E. Neuman connection page: http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/bgisaen.html from "Exploring Cairo" in an old NT Magazine issue.

Just like these guys.

Say what you like about Microsoft, but they achieved market dominance by competing in a free market.

Purely superficial mktng 'innovative' BS.

Funny how all the skulduggery and backstabbing done by a ruthless, obsessively deranged boy genie-ass without a shread of ethic or conscious gets slowly forgotten - nevermind that Pertec purchased MITS with the understanding that they were buying MITS-BASIC (that's what the label says!), only to have the rights to BASIC returned to Micro-Soft due to a legal techinacality (hmm, no 'competitive market' choice there) - nevermind that IBM handed Msft a cash cow when Msft bought QDOS and flipped it to IBM for royalties ("Isn't that the kid who's mom is on our Red Cross committee" - nope, still no 'competition' going on). It also helps immensly to have a family of bankers and lawyers for lots of free dinner time advice that real innovators seldom enjoy.

No, only a Msft brainwashed, press release deluded revisionist-history adled mind can buy into the "won by competition in the marketplace" BS - instead of by quasi legal back room antics that would make embarrass a Rockefeller.

See the Bill Gates/Alfred E. Neuman comparison HERE or http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/bgisaen.html

I just happend to have run across an ad for a MITS calculator and posted a scan here - from 1972 "Electronics Illustrated" magazine. They were shortly thereafter to come under a lot of pressure from Japanese calculator mfgs (recall that Intel started making microprocessors for a Japanese calculator client) and MITS had to find a new product quick, which turned out to be the Altair personal computer kit.

A complete shame that Ed Roberts isn't involved in any of these latest events.

I just moved in a Pinball Machine - it's a blast. Lots of maintenance on games that use RealPhysics(tm) tho. Most all pins made after about 1977 are computer controlled anyway - this one's got a 6800, some 2716 ROMS, SCR's to drive the lights, interesting game play.

be sure to check out this picture - small but funny, you'll enjoy it.

here

Look at this. But anyway....

Chuck

Hmm, it just so happens that my web site has (and about ALL it has) is an old scan of a DEC ad mentioning ARPA (2 dozen computers).

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always
valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson

Take 2
And here he is a little further on down the road

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