It's strange, PC-DOS 1.10 can be found in many places, but PC-DOS 1.00 is nowhere to be found! (You mean PC-DOS 1.00 from 1981, because there was no MS-DOS until 1982.)
PC-DOS 1.00 Filelist and screenshot; the wrs0286 abandonware site has a PC-DOS 1.00 zip file but it's actually version 3.30.
Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of
on
What You Can't Say
·
· Score: 1
"[the video of bin Laden] was so obviously a fake"... Statements likes this with no argument put you in the crackpot category straight away. You also seem to have a peculiar obsession with Israel, not unlike some other crackpots I met in my recent nineteen months in Iran. Have you heard of Occam's Razor?
One thing I've noticed is that people who blame Israel or America for 9/11 seem to be disproportionately Muslim or from the Middle East. Not to defend Israel's human rights record, but I always despised people who believed their government's propaganda - to repeat it uncritically shows a real lack of spirit.
SCO claims IBM has breached its contract by making multiprocessor operating system technology available "for free distribution to anyone in the world," including residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya, countries to which the United States controls exports. The open-source technology IBM released "can be used for encryption, scientific research and weapons research," the suit said.
The question about compression everybody is asking - ie how far can it be compressed - is a question about the "Kolmogorov Complexity" of pi, that is, what is the smallest program which can produce 1.24*10^12 digits.
Finally I have a question, though it's probably too late to be answered. I can see how 206.158 billion is arrived at (Borwein algorithm, 3*2^36). But how is 1.2411*10^12 arrived at? Is it a multiple of a power of 2?
I'm still (only) 26 but my school library had a full collection, and my university has them on microfiche. CC was the greatest computing magazine ever, better than DDJ. They had a focus on algorithms, programming contests, and were very humorous. Apart from the "Basic Computer Programs" listings, Creative Computing Press also published "Computers in mathematics: a sourcebook of ideas" (1979) which must have had a big effect on me.
What are some of my fond memories?
The April 1980 April Fool's Day issue. The title of the issue was a take-off of DDJ's original title. You could turn it over and have another take-off magazine. It had the TRASH-80, "2000 hours later I still own a Lemon", ADVENTURE in Fortran printed in microscopic type,
take-offs of the Appel/Haken 4-colour theorem proof, make your own barcode reader spoof, and parodies of many other magazines.
The "Inside Dreck" column by "John Qwerty" sometime in '84 or '85. These days a magazine would be sued for that, but Dvorak hasn't changed in all those years. It's not in the on-line archive, probably for legal reasons...
The first three months of the IBM Images column with Will Fastie - "Here is a picture of the author's personal computer" - for the first three months he couldn't get hold of one, so we had a picture of a bottle of wine, a basketball court, etc.
Endless source code listing with explanations, CREATIVE clever programming. Astronomy programs. Hunt the Wumpus listings, dodecahedra. "Chess C-4". Checkers programs. I know I sound like an old fogey but there's nothing like this now... which leads me to...
Dave Ahl's sad farewell, explaining the reasons for the closure of the magazine.
Advertising revenue was down, leading to the magazine looking really anorexic at the end.
I went to the local department store (Myer, in Brisbane, Australia) to buy 2.88Mb 3.5" (quad density, not high density) floppies for a DEC Alpha (Alphas had these since 1992, but they never caught on).
And the shop assistant told me they were the same as 1.44Mb floppies, you just turn them over and put them in the other way!
When I wrote this slashdot article I called Kasparov the "de jure" world champion and the "world's highest rated player".
Kasparov hasn't been the official FIDE world chess federation champion since 1993, when he broke with FIDE to play against the legitimate challenger Nigel Short.
Kasparov did not play his legitimate challenger, Alexei Shirov, and attempted to set up a "championship" match with another leading player, Viswanathan Anand of India before hand-picking Kramnik as his challenger here.
However Kramnik is number 3 on the FIDE rating list and so was a worthy challenger, just not the man who deserved the match, Shirov.
stage 10 required the factorisation of a 512-bit number. Singh says the authors had access only to 'ordinary' computers but I'd think 99% of people don't have access to a computer with 4Gb of RAM like the winners did. congratulations to them on cracking stage 5 - now that was obscure!
Irina was the unofficial team leader from move 10 onwards. The world played her recommendations for 41 consecutive moves until move 51, when ballot-stuffing was first alleged. This makes the case for ballot-stuffing on moves 51 and 52 quite strong. See Martin Sims' thoughts on moves 51 & 52.
"Democracy is not served by vote fraud in any election... Clearly, if MSN were running the world's elections, things would be a lot neater!" referring to Microsoft's deletion of votes for 59...Qe1.
My notes:
There was vote stuffing on move 56, even after non-Windows voting had been disabled. The 187 votes stuffed for a queen give-away move added to 4.75% of the vote. The difference between the top two votes on moves 51 and 52 was less than 5%; there are two examples of individuals stuffing over 4% of the vote, making it quite likely that the game was influenced by an individual in the critical moves 51 & 52. (Microsoft claims the contrary in a carefully worded statement - "never any significant ballot-stuffing until move 59". So 5% is not significant when the vote differences are less than that?).
Finally, the game did not have any problems until move 51. Microsoft did very well for the vast majority of the game - however, it became obvious after move 51 that ballot-stuffing was occurring (despite Microsoft denials) and that Microsoft was unable or unwilling to do anything about it.
Slashdot Mirror
PC-DOS 1.00 Filelist and screenshot; the wrs0286 abandonware site has a PC-DOS 1.00 zip file but it's actually version 3.30.
Try explaining away Khaled Sheikh Mohammad's interview on Al Jazeera where he, with Ramzi bin al-shibh, confessed to planning 9/11 and talked about how the targets were chosen.
One thing I've noticed is that people who blame Israel or America for 9/11 seem to be disproportionately Muslim or from the Middle East. Not to defend Israel's human rights record, but I always despised people who believed their government's propaganda - to repeat it uncritically shows a real lack of spirit.
Hold me mommy, I'm scared!!
-- Linux User in Iran, using SMP for scientific research
The question about compression everybody is asking - ie how far can it be compressed - is a question about the "Kolmogorov Complexity" of pi, that is, what is the smallest program which can produce 1.24*10^12 digits.
Finally I have a question, though it's probably too late to be answered. I can see how 206.158 billion is arrived at (Borwein algorithm, 3*2^36). But how is 1.2411*10^12 arrived at? Is it a multiple of a power of 2?
He's not an insurance salesman, he's a financial planner. He also edited military vehicle magazines after the Atari magazines folded.
What are some of my fond memories?
This is a true story...
I went to the local department store (Myer, in Brisbane, Australia) to buy 2.88Mb 3.5" (quad density, not high density) floppies for a DEC Alpha (Alphas had these since 1992, but they never caught on).
And the shop assistant told me they were the same as 1.44Mb floppies, you just turn them over and put them in the other way!
Within 15 minutes people are talking about calling the FBI, and later other people forward it to their postmasters, etc.
If you really want to suffer you can buy it for $15 from Something Weird.
So some people on the chess newsgroup are saying Shirov's the world champion now! :-)
Kasparov hasn't been the official FIDE world chess federation champion since 1993, when he broke with FIDE to play against the legitimate challenger Nigel Short.
Karpov regained the FIDE title in a 1993 match and lost it by not playing in the 1999 FIDE world championship. This matter is currently under legal dispute.
Kasparov did not play his legitimate challenger, Alexei Shirov, and attempted to set up a "championship" match with another leading player, Viswanathan Anand of India before hand-picking Kramnik as his challenger here.
However Kramnik is number 3 on the FIDE rating list and so was a worthy challenger, just not the man who deserved the match, Shirov.
stage 10 required the factorisation of a 512-bit number. Singh says the authors had access only to 'ordinary' computers but I'd think 99% of people don't have access to a computer with 4Gb of RAM like the winners did. congratulations to them on cracking stage 5 - now that was obscure!
This makes the case for ballot-stuffing on moves 51 and 52 quite strong. See Martin Sims' thoughts on moves 51 & 52.
Ross Amann notes that
- "Democracy is not served by vote fraud in any election... Clearly, if MSN were running the world's elections, things would be a lot neater!" referring to Microsoft's deletion of votes for 59...Qe1.
My notes:The difference between the top two votes on moves 51 and 52 was less than 5%; there are two examples of individuals stuffing over 4% of the vote, making it quite likely that the game was influenced by an individual in the critical moves 51 & 52.
(Microsoft claims the contrary in a carefully worded statement - "never any significant ballot-stuffing until move 59". So 5% is not significant when the vote differences are less than that?).