No, you haven't got this quite right. The Amiga floppy controller uses a motor control signal that is separate from the drive selection signals. This means that an Amiga drive can be selected without turning its motor on, after which its disk change indication will be available. However, the disk change signal is latched (to ensure that a change can be detected by simple polling) and will only be updated after the disk heads are stepped. This results in a regular "click" sound from Amiga floppy drives as the device driver polls for disk insertion. Newer floppy drives will refuse to step the heads outwards beyond track 0, so you can set the driver to poll by sending "step out" commands which will update the signal without causing a click.
Uh, how about an accelerated 1200? I would do this, only I can't fit a CD-ROM drive in there and my original 1200 keyboard broke in some inexplicable way, and decent power supplies are expensive, so now it relies on a PC keyboard and a PC case. The motherboard, floppy and accelerator are still in the original case...
Oh, not this old claim. AmigaOS has nothing to do with Unix. Some Unixisms (such as line editing keys) were retrofitted onto it in releases 1.3 and 2.0, and a lot of Unix stuff was ported or reimplemented at user level. Its origins lie elsewhere.
Amiga Inc has no interest in Amiga hardware. Their intention to use Linux as a basis for future Amiga software has nothing to to with the existence of Linux for Amiga hardware.
Unfortunately, windows.h in Windows references every possible function... so including it (which you almost must) will link your program against all library functions -- some of which are NOT dynamic.
Nonsense. Declaring functions doesn't cause them to be referenced.
-- some of which are NOT dynamic.
You mean that you have to statically link bits of Windows with your program? I think not.
Also, since Windows does DLLs so poorly (not versioned in the filename), most big apps are linked statically or come with their own copies of the same DLLs to put in their local path to make sure nothing gets broken.
Yes. Microsoft has been saying something about the end to "DLL Hell" (they actually call it that themselves) in Windows 2000 using some new sort of DLL management scheme. I don't know what the details are. Hopefully it involves proper versioning.
Ever searched a Windows machine for MFC*.DLL or winsock*.dll ?... have a good one!
The problem with MFC is that an awful lot of the internals are exposed to the application programmer; this means that it is almost impossible to make internal changes without breaking some MFC applications. You might think it is bad practice to rely on internals; my experience is that it is impossible to do some important things without looking at them. I don't understand how you can use multiple copies of winsock.dll; that DLL is specific to the TCP/IP stack and no application should be using a private copy. Note that certain DLLs specified in a registry setting (I forget where) are always loaded from the Windows system directory.
How do you charge for "online time" on a packet-based connection? Answer: you don't. You charge for volume of data transferred (normally excluding ICMP; charging customers for ping floods would be a bit unfair).
If you have access to a private dial-in service with lines on the cable operator's network, then you can still call that for free. This meant I could still get free Internet access for my last year at university when I was in private rented accommodation. (Well, there was still a line rental charge.)
Right. Long distance and international calls are extremely expensive in the US. Here in the UK, long distance calls tend to be around 10p/minute peak-time and 3p/minute evenings and weekends. With BT's "Friends and Family" discounts or with a BT competitor, it's less still. I can even call the US for 10p/minute. Then there are international calling services which offer lower rates via a UK access number if you pre-pay. So what we lose on local calls, we make up on long distance. Furthermore, I think "local" tends to cover a wider area in the UK than in the US.
No, that's not correct. You have two misconceptions. Firstly, that if you produce a derivative of a GPL'd work, that you have to offer it to everyone. That's not true - you can distribute it only within your corporation, and employees of the corporation are bound by their contracts not to distribute it further. Secondly, that the FSF can sue you for violating the GPL on any software. They can only do this if they own the copyright to whatever it is they believe you have used in violation.
This is not just flame bait, or bashing on our federal reserve system, which is a cartel of private banks all owned by British royals, and which collects interest for lending American currency as all new wealth is created and brought into the American marketplace.
Visual Studio has the Source Browser tool. Unfortunately, this relies on generating huge browser files. I recently run out of disk space and decided to delete all the browser files I had, which saved me 100 MB.
In China, some prisoners are forced to work to make goods for export. That is slave labour. But I'm sure the good ol' US of A will see this as a good thing, and implement it too fairly soon.
This has nothing to do with ATX. I have an ATX power supply with a mains power socket for the monitor.
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This probably refers to the use of processor cartridges, like the Pentium II and III have. Meanwhile, Intel is moving its processors back to sockets...
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The PowerPC boards for the Amiga aren't very good. They are made by a small company that had to design its own memory controller for the 680x0 and PPC processors. On their low budget, they came up with something that has very poor performance and does not support any level 2 cache. A PowerPC-only system would probably be faster, even though it would have to emulate 680x0 code. There is now a working 680x0 emulator for PowerPC Amigas, but it doesn't have that much use yet as there are no PowerPC-only systems available.
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No, you haven't got this quite right. The Amiga floppy controller uses a motor control signal that is separate from the drive selection signals. This means that an Amiga drive can be selected without turning its motor on, after which its disk change indication will be available. However, the disk change signal is latched (to ensure that a change can be detected by simple polling) and will only be updated after the disk heads are stepped. This results in a regular "click" sound from Amiga floppy drives as the device driver polls for disk insertion. Newer floppy drives will refuse to step the heads outwards beyond track 0, so you can set the driver to poll by sending "step out" commands which will update the signal without causing a click.
Uh, how about an accelerated 1200? I would do this, only I can't fit a CD-ROM drive in there and my original 1200 keyboard broke in some inexplicable way, and decent power supplies are expensive, so now it relies on a PC keyboard and a PC case. The motherboard, floppy and accelerator are still in the original case...
Oh, it's not that complicated:
eor.b #2,$BFE001Oh, not this old claim. AmigaOS has nothing to do with Unix. Some Unixisms (such as line editing keys) were retrofitted onto it in releases 1.3 and 2.0, and a lot of Unix stuff was ported or reimplemented at user level. Its origins lie elsewhere.
Amiga Inc has no interest in Amiga hardware. Their intention to use Linux as a basis for future Amiga software has nothing to to with the existence of Linux for Amiga hardware.
But biometric IDs can be copied, and there is no way for you to revoke them.
Nonsense. Declaring functions doesn't cause them to be referenced.
You mean that you have to statically link bits of Windows with your program? I think not.
Yes. Microsoft has been saying something about the end to "DLL Hell" (they actually call it that themselves) in Windows 2000 using some new sort of DLL management scheme. I don't know what the details are. Hopefully it involves proper versioning.
The problem with MFC is that an awful lot of the internals are exposed to the application programmer; this means that it is almost impossible to make internal changes without breaking some MFC applications. You might think it is bad practice to rely on internals; my experience is that it is impossible to do some important things without looking at them. I don't understand how you can use multiple copies of winsock.dll; that DLL is specific to the TCP/IP stack and no application should be using a private copy. Note that certain DLLs specified in a registry setting (I forget where) are always loaded from the Windows system directory.
There is no C++ code in the Linux kernel.
How do you charge for "online time" on a packet-based connection? Answer: you don't. You charge for volume of data transferred (normally excluding ICMP; charging customers for ping floods would be a bit unfair).
If you have access to a private dial-in service with lines on the cable operator's network, then you can still call that for free. This meant I could still get free Internet access for my last year at university when I was in private rented accommodation. (Well, there was still a line rental charge.)
Right. Long distance and international calls are extremely expensive in the US. Here in the UK, long distance calls tend to be around 10p/minute peak-time and 3p/minute evenings and weekends. With BT's "Friends and Family" discounts or with a BT competitor, it's less still. I can even call the US for 10p/minute. Then there are international calling services which offer lower rates via a UK access number if you pre-pay. So what we lose on local calls, we make up on long distance. Furthermore, I think "local" tends to cover a wider area in the UK than in the US.
No, that's not correct. You have two misconceptions. Firstly, that if you produce a derivative of a GPL'd work, that you have to offer it to everyone. That's not true - you can distribute it only within your corporation, and employees of the corporation are bound by their contracts not to distribute it further. Secondly, that the FSF can sue you for violating the GPL on any software. They can only do this if they own the copyright to whatever it is they believe you have used in violation.
Which resulted in horrible security problems, I believe.
Nonsense. I've seen this used many times in Amiga `scene' intro/demo scroll-texts.
The British royal family owns banks? ROTFL.
Visual Studio has the Source Browser tool. Unfortunately, this relies on generating huge browser files. I recently run out of disk space and decided to delete all the browser files I had, which saved me 100 MB.
Hmm, maybe I'm getting just a little bit excited. I hope I don't give the censors ideas.
Try using fresh coffee instead. There is no such thing as vintage coffee, as some people seem to believe.
No, that (soo-sa) is the correct pronunciation, according to the last report of a Linux show where SuSE was represented.
Let's not draw attention to this post by replying to it.
In China, some prisoners are forced to work to make goods for export. That is slave labour. But I'm sure the good ol' US of A will see this as a good thing, and implement it too fairly soon.
What kind of half-assed comment is this? Can't read German? What a waste of bandwidth.
This has nothing to do with ATX. I have an ATX power supply with a mains power socket for the monitor.
This probably refers to the use of processor cartridges, like the Pentium II and III have. Meanwhile, Intel is moving its processors back to sockets...
The PowerPC boards for the Amiga aren't very good. They are made by a small company that had to design its own memory controller for the 680x0 and PPC processors. On their low budget, they came up with something that has very poor performance and does not support any level 2 cache. A PowerPC-only system would probably be faster, even though it would have to emulate 680x0 code. There is now a working 680x0 emulator for PowerPC Amigas, but it doesn't have that much use yet as there are no PowerPC-only systems available.