The biggest stumbling block is a lack of 64 bit with gcc - and that the GNU software is often not portable to non-GNU platforms.
Keep in mind - GNU is not Linux.
FWIW, Sun does supply a lot of GNU utilities on the Companion CD-ROM and sets them up in the/opt/sfw directory so youse can put them ahead of the SysV utilities in your PATH.
IMHO, Sun would be better off paying more attention to what is going on with OpenBSD than Linux - and they have been paying attention. Solaris has strlcpy, IPsec built in before Linux and will be integrating OpenSSH.
And I still prefer CDE over KDE and Gnome (although haven't seen KDE 3.0 in action).
For an hoarier example, QDOS -> 86-DOS -> M$-DOS was capable of handling 4 GB files from the API, however the implementations before Compaq DOS 3.31 choked on disks larger than 32 MB.
FWIW, Solaris UFS is only capable of handling 1 TB per filesystem. Sun does have a couple of other filesystem types for larger filesystems.
As other psoters have mentioned, Uranium does not have medical uses.
The advantage of the GeLi detectors is very good energy resolution for gamma rays, but they do need to be cooled. The breakthrough is using a portable cooling source so you don't need to drag an LN2 dewar around.
"Uranium is uranium" is a big misunderstanding on your part - U-238 and U-235 have very different properties (and distinct gamma spectra). It would be extremely helpful to know if a Uranium sample was depleted, natural or highly enriched.
One big advantage of circular polarization is that it will talk to both horizontal and vertically polarized antennas. You do have to make sure that if you're using two circularly polarized antennas, that they have the same sense, i.e. LHP or RHP.
US $90 per month for 256K down / 300K up (that's right, up is higher than down - why? funny configuration by NorthPoint just before they closed down). This also includes 5 static IP addresses.
I'm about 1700 feet too far from the C.O. for PacBell DSL.
What most eople don't know is that Isreal was threatening to use nuclear weapons against the Arab's in the 1973 war and that the Soviet Union was threatening to nuke Israel. Needless to say, we would have probably nuked the USSR in return (then again, we were a few minutes away from nuking Israel for the attack on the USS Liberty).
It might have saved the country a lot of grief if someone from the Joints Chiefs of Staff went over to the Supreme Court and had the judges tell Cox in no uncertain terms to STFU until after thing scooled down a bit.
Kissinger did some really interesting work in ending that war.
Where were all of the post Watergate Dem's when the real massacres were going on in the killing fields of Cambodia.
Coincidentally, I was visiting a classmate of mine who is the main guy at Astronautics on this project. Didn't know it had appeared on/. the night before the visit.
For some fun, check out http://www.yesterland.com - especially the section on the Carousel of Progress. Be sure to pay attention to the dates.
Ironic in that GE (now parent of NBC) and Disney (now parent of ABC) were promoting the use of video tape recorders for recording TV broadcasts. It doesn't take too much of a stretch for someone to just hand a tape over to some friends.
Funny thing is that the main difference between a 3000 and a 9000 is the initialization software. The was a local company, Abtech Systems, that got in real deep doo-doo because they were taking 9000's, installing MPE and getting a better price for the boxes than with HP-UX.
Paranoid view - HP is getting rid of the 3000's so the Itanic's don't look so bad.
Not so paranoid view - The PA-RISC will be EOL'd in 2006 and there will be no new hardware to run MPE.
Remember reading some of the HP mags many years ago - the MPE fans were downright fanatical about MPE - pretty much the same kind of following for VMS and MVS.
QDOS was written from day one for the 8086. Tim Patterson at Seattle Computer wrote it in such a way that it would be very easy to translate Z-80 asm code to SCP's 8086 asm code. 86-DOS (the production version of QDOS) had a utility for reading CP/M disks.
86-DOS version 1.0 had.exe files, which supported relocatable code -.com files were derived from the.com files in CP/M (see note about translation). 86-DOS v1.14 was released as PC-DOS 1.0 and the rights to 86-DOS were sold to the beast of Bellevue.
IT is amazing at how many people spout off on the history of DOS when they have no clue as to the origins.
BTW, my first microcomputer was a SCP 8086 system running 86-DOS. Eventually upgraded to MS-DOS 2.0 - which had the beginings of a UNIX like directory structure.
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FWIW, KDE is available in the Solaris media kits. KDE 2.0.1
is shipped with HW 4/01 and includes a script for adding it
to the dt login window. Unfortunately the distribution does not include KOffice - I was hoping to play with KWord's frames (been spoiled by Island Write's "containers").
Konqueror has some nifty features - such as being able to browse SMB shares.
I knew a Rockwell engineer (now RIP) who had one of those beasts. He even got a single sided Tandon floppy drive for it. but never got it hooked up. Neat little toy for learning how a micro worked - with a serial port it would make for a good programmable peripheral.
One thing I don't miss is using a cassette tape for back-up and storage.
The maximum length of transmission line depends on how much you want to spend. 1 inch diameter coaxial cable would probably have low enough losses to do the job - waveguide would be even better. You'd be looking at 10 bucks a foot for the cable tho - connectors would be on the order of $100 apiece.
The author of the piece was being too optimistic about how small the reactors can be made. The issue isn't so much the core of the reactor, but the necessary neautron shielding. Nuke submarines use a layer of borated polyethylene to slow down and absorb neutrons.
As another poster pointed out, the gas turbine cycle was originally promoted by General Atomics. They were using graphite prisms as opposed to the pebble bed.
Don't see much practicality below the few MW range.
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NRAD in San Diego were able to duplicate the "excess heat". The Palladium electrodes become more resistive with increasing hydrogen build-up (increasing voltage). P&F appraently were using a constant current power supply and not monitoring the voltage.
Bob Pease of National Semiconductor has written several articles poking holes in the Taguchi Method. One example was that of a voltage regulator designed by the Taguchi Method - it was very insensitive to part tolerances - However it didn't regulate worth a damn.
One of the first build your own computer articles was in Electronics Illustrated late 66 or early 67. It was an adding machine using neon bulbs as the logic elements and display.
There were a couple of articles using potentieomters in sort of an electronic slide rule.
Life Magazine had an article about the guy who bought the Whirlwind from MIT.
I didn't like BYTE much at first, didn't start reading it regularly until 1982. My fave for the early years was Interface Age.
Pop Tronics was another history source. The Jan 1975 issue is a keeper (intro'd the Altair), also the March 1972 issue which intro'd the HP-35.
Another mag with early personal computer stories was Analog, the science fact section did have a few stories about the wonders of computers when the idea of a personal computer was - well- science fiction.
Once and for all, "MS-DOS" was written by Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products not M$. It was written to emulate the API of CP/M and the UI was a sort of unix-fied CP/M UI (which was a clone of DEC's RSX-11).
Also the book points out how the deal with DOS was the second time SCP got screwed over by M$. First time was the Z-80 card for the Apple II.
I did see a demonstration of IBM's first personal computer - the 5100 - the "PC" was the 5150. The 5100 went for $10,000 in 74 - 75. There were a few people who bought Data General Nova's in the early 70's.
Probably should by the book - was at UCB in the mid 70's - knew someone who worked for IMSAI (and had stories about the EST crap). BTW, for a while IMSAI was Intel's largest customer for 8080's.
I agree - Gnome tries too hard to look like Windoze.
HP had a much better sense of style than M$, while the
3D effects of Motif may look a bit too cutesy, the overall
look and feel of VUE/CDE is IMHO much better than Gnome.
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Keep in mind - GNU is not Linux.
FWIW, Sun does supply a lot of GNU utilities on the Companion CD-ROM and sets them up in the /opt/sfw directory so youse can put them ahead of the SysV utilities in your PATH.
IMHO, Sun would be better off paying more attention to what is going on with OpenBSD than Linux - and they have been paying attention. Solaris has strlcpy, IPsec built in before Linux and will be integrating OpenSSH.
And I still prefer CDE over KDE and Gnome (although haven't seen KDE 3.0 in action).
FWIW, Solaris UFS is only capable of handling 1 TB per filesystem. Sun does have a couple of other filesystem types for larger filesystems.
The advantage of the GeLi detectors is very good energy resolution for gamma rays, but they do need to be cooled. The breakthrough is using a portable cooling source so you don't need to drag an LN2 dewar around.
"Uranium is uranium" is a big misunderstanding on your part - U-238 and U-235 have very different properties (and distinct gamma spectra). It would be extremely helpful to know if a Uranium sample was depleted, natural or highly enriched.
Boeing owes it's lead to the B-47 - virtually all Beoing jets are tweaks of the StratoJet.
One big advantage of circular polarization is that it will talk to both horizontal and vertically polarized antennas. You do have to make sure that if you're using two circularly polarized antennas, that they have the same sense, i.e. LHP or RHP.
I'm about 1700 feet too far from the C.O. for PacBell DSL.
It might have saved the country a lot of grief if someone from the Joints Chiefs of Staff went over to the Supreme Court and had the judges tell Cox in no uncertain terms to STFU until after thing scooled down a bit.
Kissinger did some really interesting work in ending that war.
Where were all of the post Watergate Dem's when the real massacres were going on in the killing fields of Cambodia.
IIRC Roe vs. Wade was argued on the basis of a right to privacy.
Coincidentally, I was visiting a classmate of mine who is the main guy at Astronautics on this project. Didn't know it had appeared on /. the night before the visit.
Ironic in that GE (now parent of NBC) and Disney (now parent of ABC) were promoting the use of video tape recorders for recording TV broadcasts. It doesn't take too much of a stretch for someone to just hand a tape over to some friends.
Paranoid view - HP is getting rid of the 3000's so the Itanic's don't look so bad.
Not so paranoid view - The PA-RISC will be EOL'd in 2006 and there will be no new hardware to run MPE.
Remember reading some of the HP mags many years ago - the MPE fans were downright fanatical about MPE - pretty much the same kind of following for VMS and MVS.
86-DOS version 1.0 had .exe files, which supported relocatable code - .com files were derived from the .com files in CP/M (see note about translation). 86-DOS v1.14 was released as PC-DOS 1.0 and the rights to 86-DOS were sold to the beast of Bellevue.
IT is amazing at how many people spout off on the history of DOS when they have no clue as to the origins.
BTW, my first microcomputer was a SCP 8086 system running 86-DOS. Eventually upgraded to MS-DOS 2.0 - which had the beginings of a UNIX like directory structure.
Konqueror has some nifty features - such as being able to browse SMB shares.
One thing I don't miss is using a cassette tape for back-up and storage.
ComputorEdge????
Don't you mean Byte Buyer??
Kind of funny in that Jim Trageser is back doing the equivalent of the BBS column.
The maximum length of transmission line depends on how much you want to spend. 1 inch diameter coaxial cable would probably have low enough losses to do the job - waveguide would be even better. You'd be looking at 10 bucks a foot for the cable tho - connectors would be on the order of $100 apiece.
The author of the piece was being too optimistic about how small the reactors can be made. The issue isn't so much the core of the reactor, but the necessary neautron shielding. Nuke submarines use a layer of borated polyethylene to slow down and absorb neutrons.
As another poster pointed out, the gas turbine cycle was originally promoted by General Atomics. They were using graphite prisms as opposed to the pebble bed.
Don't see much practicality below the few MW range.
NRAD in San Diego were able to duplicate the "excess heat". The Palladium electrodes become more resistive with increasing hydrogen build-up (increasing voltage). P&F appraently were using a constant current power supply and not monitoring the voltage.
Bob Pease of National Semiconductor has written several articles poking holes in the Taguchi Method. One example was that of a voltage regulator designed by the Taguchi Method - it was very insensitive to part tolerances - However it didn't regulate worth a damn.
One of the first build your own computer articles was in Electronics Illustrated late 66 or early 67. It was an adding machine using neon bulbs as the logic elements and display.
There were a couple of articles using potentieomters in sort of an electronic slide rule.
Life Magazine had an article about the guy who bought the Whirlwind from MIT.
I didn't like BYTE much at first, didn't start reading it regularly until 1982. My fave for the early years was Interface Age.
Pop Tronics was another history source. The Jan 1975 issue is a keeper (intro'd the Altair), also the March 1972 issue which intro'd the HP-35.
Another mag with early personal computer stories was Analog, the science fact section did have a few stories about the wonders of computers when the idea of a personal computer was - well- science fiction.
Once and for all, "MS-DOS" was written by Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products not M$. It was written to emulate the API of CP/M and the UI was a sort of unix-fied CP/M UI (which was a clone of DEC's RSX-11).
Also the book points out how the deal with DOS was the second time SCP got screwed over by M$. First time was the Z-80 card for the Apple II.
I did see a demonstration of IBM's first personal computer - the 5100 - the "PC" was the 5150. The 5100 went for $10,000 in 74 - 75. There were a few people who bought Data General Nova's in the early 70's.
Probably should by the book - was at UCB in the mid 70's - knew someone who worked for IMSAI (and had stories about the EST crap). BTW, for a while IMSAI was Intel's largest customer for 8080's.
I agree - Gnome tries too hard to look like Windoze.
HP had a much better sense of style than M$, while the
3D effects of Motif may look a bit too cutesy, the overall
look and feel of VUE/CDE is IMHO much better than Gnome.