Remember back with really sluggish 33mhz 486s etc (and a lot lower) and thinking of the ultimate computer being a whole 50mhz.
I remember when my 16 MHz 386 machine was the hottest thing around - blew the doors off of the 6 to 8 MHz AT's. Shortly after buying the 386, I picked up a copy of Gato which used timing loops intended for the 4.77 MHz 8088 - went w-a-y too fast to be playable until I learned how to set the clock speed compensation on the game.
Before that when an 8 MHz 8086 was pretty hot stuff (which it was in 1982).
In 1978, Steve Jobs and William Hawkins, marketing czar at Apple, decided the time was right to introduce a new generation of computers to replace the Apple II line.
W. M. Hawkins III usually goes by the name of Trip Hawkins and has been commonly referred to that way since 1967 (if not before).
Trip said that he came across Appple at the first West Coast Computer Faire in spring 1977. He apparently became disenchanted with the progress with the Lisa by late 1981 early 1982, left Aplle and had sold off most of his Apple stock.
If anything it cost the Britishers their entire empire to bring down the Germany's world conquest campaign. They paid the highest price of all. As history records it, prior to pearl harbour, USA refused to enter the war claiming that it was not their problem and they will just supply weapons etc. at most(for a profit ofcourse).
The US had good reason to not get involved with another European war - the cost in casualties and civil liberties from the first war far greater than any benefit from participating in that war - the one saving grace was that the US was in position to push through the Washington Naval treaty of 1922.
As for supplying weapons - the US did supply the Brits with a fair amount of armaments before Germany declared war on the US (Dec 10 or 11, 1941) and did not supply armaments to the Axis powers. For the most part, the arms were effectively donated, not sold. By the end of the war, the US was producing more weaponry than the entire rest of the world.
The defeat of Japan was largely an American effort.
Countries in the Indian Ocean just suffered from an earthquake and tsunami that literally killed 100 times as many people as 9/11.
And the civil unrest in the Congo has killed about 10 times as many people as were killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami. There has been very little international outcry over those death tolls.
Somewhere between 20 million and a 100 million people died from the Great Influenza of 1918-20. A good share of the blame for the spread of that pandemic belongs to the Wilson administration's obsession with the war effort - the US would have been much better off letting the Europeans destroy themselves.
Global mean surface temperatures have increased 0.5-1.0F since the late 19th century.
A complicating factor is that 1850 marked the end of a several century global cooling event. The years 800 to 1200 AD were considerably warmer than from AD 1400 to 1800.
First of all, SPEC rate is more a function of interconnect and memory performance than CPU performance.
The flip side of that is CPU performance doesn't mean squat on a multiprocessor system if the interconnect and memory systems are not up to snuff.
Opteron could "go up to as much SMP" as US provided the glue logic is there.
Are you sure about that?
The high end US chips have provisions for maintaining cache coherency in systems with up to 1023 processors. I don't recall seeing a similar feature in the Opterons (IIRC, they're good for up to 8 processors). The Opteron more closely competes with the US-IIIi than the US-III or US-IV.
I also recall reading that one generation (Power4?) of IBM's Power boxes had some performance problems when doing real SMP workloads due to IBM messing up the memory system. The same systems did wonderfullly with single processor tasks.
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one of my pet peeves with Word is how annoying adding a photo+legend to a page of text is.
That's one of my biggest peeves with MS-Orifice and OOo/SO. It's a pity since Word (and clones as OOo Writer) have yet to come up with what was quite easy in a 13 year old verion of Island Write, which was:
Create a container that can be locked to the page or text
Set the container format to: crop; scale proportionally; scale non-proportionally
Import graphics file
If cropped, use "hand" cursor to move graphic in container.
And Island Write would work in 32MB or RAM.
Looks like Pages has similar functionality - I'm seriously considering buying a Mac-mini for that and the DVD editing.
Finally, a "word-processor" that dares to break away from the M$-Wierd -er- MS-Word paradigm.
I wondering if homeowner's insurance policies will require a robust 911 service in order to qualify for coverage. On the flip side, is the phone provider liable if the 911 call gets misdirected?
what BPL means is that
people in the 1st world wont be able to recieve a weak signal from the other side of the world.
Excellent Point!!!
What 90% of the folks posting don't get is that the problem with BPL is causing interference in areas untouched by disaster and blocking out the transmissions from areas that have been hit. The folks in the disaster area may be transmitting on limited power (e.g. car batteries) with makeshift antennas, so even a small amount of BPL interference can completely disrupt communications.
Low water over the crown sheet will do it every time - epitaph for many locomotive firemen. IIRC, Strasbourg RR had an accident a few years ago just from that cause - contributing factor was problems with the sight gauge.
It was common back in days of steam to see major parts of the locomotive a quarter-mile away from the site of the explosion.
OTOH, most modern steam cars have been using flash boilers with a much smaller water inventory than the old style firetube boilers. Properly designed, a failure in a tube will result in venting of steam through the exhaust. As you mentioned, the plumbing outside the boiler has to be treated with care.
As for high pressures in the hands of goobers - centerfire rifles typically generate 60,000 PSI peak pressure.
Perhaps you meant Scandinavian countries - or maybe you meant Norwegian counties as in, for example, parts of Nort Dakohta or Vashington. FWIW, Swedes outnumber Norwegians about 2:1 in Scandinavia, the ratio is probably less than that in the US.
It is very impolite to mix up Norwegians and Swedes, however crossbreeding is a whole nudder story.
The whole point of serving Glogg to non-scans is to prepare them for the Lutefisk and Gamleost.
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You know very well that I wasn't talking about the legitimate traffic.
No, I didn't.
The point I was trying to make was to maximize the embarrassment for the *AA's by cracking down on legal content - and show them for hypocrites they are wrt freedom of speech.
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Take a chill pill...
Now would be a good time to put as much legitimate traffic (e.g. Linux distro's) as possible to make the case that Bit Torrent has legitimate use.
Oh and lots/most of them need balanced lengths (sometimes across a 64-bit bus) to within a couple mils, but the contstraints are normally specified on a timing budget basis and have to backed out to an impedance/distance spec, and possible field-solved first.
What are you using for a substrate? If your timing budgets are that tight, the variations of even a short trace on FR-4 are going to kill you.
I do recall Cray being into field solving of PCB's back around 1990 or so.
The stations are under no obligation to provide their services to anyone.
The fact that they are using public airwaves does impose obligations - however the obligations extend only out to their defined service area. The issues brought up by the OP are not that different from the issues facing the early CATV (cable) providers - many of which were filling in holes for the stations service areas.
gEDA has a mixed mode simulator program called Gnucap. I haven't tried it, but seems to be quite powerful, even while it's still work in progress.
I've used gnucap (formerly ACS) quite a bit and it is fairly competent. It is missing some stuff that has been in SPICE for a while (coupled inductors are one thing that come to mind). Plotting requires an external program (e.g. gnuplot). I'm not particularly bothered by the lack of a built-in schematic capture, though some might be.
My previous SPICE experience had been PSPICE running on DOS and the original SPICE written in CDC "run" FORTRAN running on CALIDOSCOPE - punched my first input deck almost 31 years ago.
First off, it's original purpose (since the early '70s) has been to provide mid-course correction to submarine launched ballistic missiles. No matter how good the inertial tracking systems in a boomer, they still don't have an accurate enough idea of where they are located at launch.
Methinks you're mixing up GPS with Transit. Transit was used to provide accurate position fixes to the boomers to allow updating the SINS.
There are several reasons that I doubt the mid-course correction scenario. The most important is that folks involved with ballistic missile guidance do not like relying on radio guidance due to problems of jamming and denial of service (the EMP's from a few well placed nukes could take out the system). The flip side of that argument is that the USN has decided on astro-inertial navigation - using guide stars for mid-course correction - the guide stars are difficult to jam and impossible to take out.
The US has, after all, also been wrong on many other of its unilateral actions.
The history of 20th century Europe, with two major wars, does not give European diplomacy much credibility. The only reason that there wasn't a third major war was that the US had occupied Europe for several decades after the end of WW2. WW1 was supposed to be the "War to end all wars", but ended up to being a prelude to an even larger war.
And another thing, Europe as we know it now will have ceased to exist by the end of this century. Unless the Europeans learn how to develop multicultural societies, the social tensions built up by immigration and declining native population will tear them apart.
I can't imagine a war between the US and China being anything but a global conflict.
Who said anything about China's pribcipal opponent being the US?
China is devloping a very unique vulnerability - the Three Gorges Dam. All someone has to do to creat a huge amount of damage is to drop a small nuke in the water just behind the dam - especially when the dam is near full.
Creating and testing nuclear weapons has proven far more difficult that making effective rockets.
Then why were the first nuclear weapons available in 1945 and the first ICBM's didn't become operational until 1960? Hmmm?
Short range missiles are another story - especially satellite nav equipped cruise missiles. Getting accurate inertial navigations systems is a lot more difficult than building a nuclear weapon.
By the time of the moon shot the original von Braun people who did the V2 had mostly been replaced with Brits.
Say what!?
I knew quite a few people who worked on the Apollo program and the impression I got was the expertise was primarily American.
As for who developed the technology - some critical areas were:
Control systems theory: Bell Labs
Gimballing rocket motors: Rocketdyne
LH2 handling: AEC and Lockheed Skunk Works
LH2 engines: Pratt & Whitney, Rocketdyne
F1 engines: Rocketdyne
And don't forget that von Braun and crew learned a lot about liquid fueled rocket design from Goddard.
And the fault for that lies entirely with recent US unilateralism.
Depending on what you mean by recent...
The US wanted to put economic pressure on the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, that it trying something that didn't involve military force. Europe basically told the US to go screw themselves, they weren't going to do anything to support the effort.
Then there's Bosnia - an incredible amount of slaughter was going on Eurpoean soil - which didn't get stopped until the US intervened. This is something that should have been handled by a purely European force.
Going back into history, the US public did not want to get involved in either WW1 or WW2 - the US involvement unintentionally killing 20 to 100 million people via the "Spanish flu".
Re: gcc-3.4.2 for Sparc Nope. The latest companion CD is Solaris 9 Update 7 and that has gcc-3.3.2.
That's what's installed on my system - haven't played with it yet as I usually use 2.95.3 for building source containing gcc'isms. Heard that 3.4.2 does a better job of optimizing for Sparc than earlier versions - though not up to the level of Workshop -er- Forte -er- whatever.
The current Companion had KDE-3.x on it.
Pretty sure I have that loaded as well - and I do have experience with KDE-3.x from Mandrake-10 on a peecee. I'm one of the weirdo's who actually likes CDE - having worked with and liking HP's VUE.
sunfreeware.com, pkgsrc (which has had a lot of development recently) and blastwave.org.
Knew about sunfreeware and blastwave, not sure if I've heard about pkgsrc - thanks for the tip.
We've just changed over the default gcc on the Companion CD to gcc-3.4.2, and he's trying to build KDE with it just now.
Is gcc-3.4.2 available on the currently available Companion CD? (otoh, I could quit being so lazy and check sun.com myself) Will be fun to play with it - especially comparing Koffice with SOffice (I like the containers paradigm in kwrite - got spoiled by Island Write).
I had tried an earlier (~2.0) of KDE on Solaris - that one messed up something in the color map (running a Creator-3 card) that could only be cured by creating a new user and copying all the files to the new home directory.
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I remember when my 16 MHz 386 machine was the hottest thing around - blew the doors off of the 6 to 8 MHz AT's. Shortly after buying the 386, I picked up a copy of Gato which used timing loops intended for the 4.77 MHz 8088 - went w-a-y too fast to be playable until I learned how to set the clock speed compensation on the game.
Before that when an 8 MHz 8086 was pretty hot stuff (which it was in 1982).
W. M. Hawkins III usually goes by the name of Trip Hawkins and has been commonly referred to that way since 1967 (if not before).
Trip said that he came across Appple at the first West Coast Computer Faire in spring 1977. He apparently became disenchanted with the progress with the Lisa by late 1981 early 1982, left Aplle and had sold off most of his Apple stock.
The US had good reason to not get involved with another European war - the cost in casualties and civil liberties from the first war far greater than any benefit from participating in that war - the one saving grace was that the US was in position to push through the Washington Naval treaty of 1922.
As for supplying weapons - the US did supply the Brits with a fair amount of armaments before Germany declared war on the US (Dec 10 or 11, 1941) and did not supply armaments to the Axis powers. For the most part, the arms were effectively donated, not sold. By the end of the war, the US was producing more weaponry than the entire rest of the world.
The defeat of Japan was largely an American effort.
And the civil unrest in the Congo has killed about 10 times as many people as were killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami. There has been very little international outcry over those death tolls.
Somewhere between 20 million and a 100 million people died from the Great Influenza of 1918-20. A good share of the blame for the spread of that pandemic belongs to the Wilson administration's obsession with the war effort - the US would have been much better off letting the Europeans destroy themselves.
A complicating factor is that 1850 marked the end of a several century global cooling event. The years 800 to 1200 AD were considerably warmer than from AD 1400 to 1800.
The flip side of that is CPU performance doesn't mean squat on a multiprocessor system if the interconnect and memory systems are not up to snuff.
Opteron could "go up to as much SMP" as US provided the glue logic is there.
Are you sure about that?
The high end US chips have provisions for maintaining cache coherency in systems with up to 1023 processors. I don't recall seeing a similar feature in the Opterons (IIRC, they're good for up to 8 processors). The Opteron more closely competes with the US-IIIi than the US-III or US-IV.
I also recall reading that one generation (Power4?) of IBM's Power boxes had some performance problems when doing real SMP workloads due to IBM messing up the memory system. The same systems did wonderfullly with single processor tasks.
That's one of my biggest peeves with MS-Orifice and OOo/SO. It's a pity since Word (and clones as OOo Writer) have yet to come up with what was quite easy in a 13 year old verion of Island Write, which was:
Create a container that can be locked to the page or text
Set the container format to: crop; scale proportionally; scale non-proportionally
Import graphics file
If cropped, use "hand" cursor to move graphic in container.
And Island Write would work in 32MB or RAM.
Looks like Pages has similar functionality - I'm seriously considering buying a Mac-mini for that and the DVD editing.
Finally, a "word-processor" that dares to break away from the M$-Wierd -er- MS-Word paradigm.
I wondering if homeowner's insurance policies will require a robust 911 service in order to qualify for coverage. On the flip side, is the phone provider liable if the 911 call gets misdirected?
Excellent Point!!!
What 90% of the folks posting don't get is that the problem with BPL is causing interference in areas untouched by disaster and blocking out the transmissions from areas that have been hit. The folks in the disaster area may be transmitting on limited power (e.g. car batteries) with makeshift antennas, so even a small amount of BPL interference can completely disrupt communications.
It was common back in days of steam to see major parts of the locomotive a quarter-mile away from the site of the explosion.
OTOH, most modern steam cars have been using flash boilers with a much smaller water inventory than the old style firetube boilers. Properly designed, a failure in a tube will result in venting of steam through the exhaust. As you mentioned, the plumbing outside the boiler has to be treated with care.
As for high pressures in the hands of goobers - centerfire rifles typically generate 60,000 PSI peak pressure.
It is very impolite to mix up Norwegians and Swedes, however crossbreeding is a whole nudder story.
The whole point of serving Glogg to non-scans is to prepare them for the Lutefisk and Gamleost.
No, I didn't.
The point I was trying to make was to maximize the embarrassment for the *AA's by cracking down on legal content - and show them for hypocrites they are wrt freedom of speech.
Now would be a good time to put as much legitimate traffic (e.g. Linux distro's) as possible to make the case that Bit Torrent has legitimate use.
What are you using for a substrate? If your timing budgets are that tight, the variations of even a short trace on FR-4 are going to kill you.
I do recall Cray being into field solving of PCB's back around 1990 or so.
The fact that they are using public airwaves does impose obligations - however the obligations extend only out to their defined service area. The issues brought up by the OP are not that different from the issues facing the early CATV (cable) providers - many of which were filling in holes for the stations service areas.
I've used gnucap (formerly ACS) quite a bit and it is fairly competent. It is missing some stuff that has been in SPICE for a while (coupled inductors are one thing that come to mind). Plotting requires an external program (e.g. gnuplot). I'm not particularly bothered by the lack of a built-in schematic capture, though some might be.
My previous SPICE experience had been PSPICE running on DOS and the original SPICE written in CDC "run" FORTRAN running on CALIDOSCOPE - punched my first input deck almost 31 years ago.
Methinks you're mixing up GPS with Transit. Transit was used to provide accurate position fixes to the boomers to allow updating the SINS.
There are several reasons that I doubt the mid-course correction scenario. The most important is that folks involved with ballistic missile guidance do not like relying on radio guidance due to problems of jamming and denial of service (the EMP's from a few well placed nukes could take out the system). The flip side of that argument is that the USN has decided on astro-inertial navigation - using guide stars for mid-course correction - the guide stars are difficult to jam and impossible to take out.
The history of 20th century Europe, with two major wars, does not give European diplomacy much credibility. The only reason that there wasn't a third major war was that the US had occupied Europe for several decades after the end of WW2. WW1 was supposed to be the "War to end all wars", but ended up to being a prelude to an even larger war.
And another thing, Europe as we know it now will have ceased to exist by the end of this century. Unless the Europeans learn how to develop multicultural societies, the social tensions built up by immigration and declining native population will tear them apart.
My understanding was that von Braun may have assisted in the design of the F1 engines - but the grunt work was done by Rocketdyne.
Who said anything about China's pribcipal opponent being the US?
China is devloping a very unique vulnerability - the Three Gorges Dam. All someone has to do to creat a huge amount of damage is to drop a small nuke in the water just behind the dam - especially when the dam is near full.
Then why were the first nuclear weapons available in 1945 and the first ICBM's didn't become operational until 1960? Hmmm?
Short range missiles are another story - especially satellite nav equipped cruise missiles. Getting accurate inertial navigations systems is a lot more difficult than building a nuclear weapon.
Say what!?
I knew quite a few people who worked on the Apollo program and the impression I got was the expertise was primarily American.
As for who developed the technology - some critical areas were:
Control systems theory: Bell Labs
Gimballing rocket motors: Rocketdyne
LH2 handling: AEC and Lockheed Skunk Works
LH2 engines: Pratt & Whitney, Rocketdyne
F1 engines: Rocketdyne
And don't forget that von Braun and crew learned a lot about liquid fueled rocket design from Goddard.
Depending on what you mean by recent...
The US wanted to put economic pressure on the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, that it trying something that didn't involve military force. Europe basically told the US to go screw themselves, they weren't going to do anything to support the effort.
Then there's Bosnia - an incredible amount of slaughter was going on Eurpoean soil - which didn't get stopped until the US intervened. This is something that should have been handled by a purely European force.
Going back into history, the US public did not want to get involved in either WW1 or WW2 - the US involvement unintentionally killing 20 to 100 million people via the "Spanish flu".
Nope. The latest companion CD is Solaris 9 Update 7 and that has gcc-3.3.2.
That's what's installed on my system - haven't played with it yet as I usually use 2.95.3 for building source containing gcc'isms. Heard that 3.4.2 does a better job of optimizing for Sparc than earlier versions - though not up to the level of Workshop -er- Forte -er- whatever.
The current Companion had KDE-3.x on it.
Pretty sure I have that loaded as well - and I do have experience with KDE-3.x from Mandrake-10 on a peecee. I'm one of the weirdo's who actually likes CDE - having worked with and liking HP's VUE.
sunfreeware.com, pkgsrc (which has had a lot of development recently) and blastwave.org.
Knew about sunfreeware and blastwave, not sure if I've heard about pkgsrc - thanks for the tip.
Is gcc-3.4.2 available on the currently available Companion CD? (otoh, I could quit being so lazy and check sun.com myself) Will be fun to play with it - especially comparing Koffice with SOffice (I like the containers paradigm in kwrite - got spoiled by Island Write).
I had tried an earlier (~2.0) of KDE on Solaris - that one messed up something in the color map (running a Creator-3 card) that could only be cured by creating a new user and copying all the files to the new home directory.