They shipped copies of it for a long time, in fact.
Here is the launch announcement. Microsoft shipped versions 1.0-1.3, but did not ship beyond that point as the MS/IBM divorce happened around then, culminating with IBM OS/2 2.0.
HEre are some screenshots. Note that the WLO libraries were apparently included in a product called the "Microsoft OS/2 Software Migration Kit". If one were to have a copy of Microsoft Systems Journal November 1990 -- Vol 5 No 6 then one would have record of this product, which has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth.;-)
I had a shrinkwrapped copy in my hands when I worked at MicroWarehouse in 1989-91, so I know it existed then. We had about 40 of them. They weren't selling well.
People with clue about this are rare in these parts, it appears. It doesn't seem that long ago to me.
Technically AX, BX, CX and DX were considered general purpose, but the truth is that they all had special meanings, CX being the increment counter, etc. So you're right, but everyone who read the MASM manual saw the tripe that the registers were general-purpose.
No, I don't know that that would be wrong. Jimmy Carter spoke of a 'malaise' infecting our society in the run up to the 1980 election. Think he might have been on to something there?
I do know this: there were people that I knew then who were partaking in drugs all around me. I do know this also: those same people would be under siege by law enforcement today and would have a hard time keeping their jobs due to random piss tests. To that extent, the drug policies have had the requisite effect and kept the use out of certain quarters. The black market in clean urine is pretty demonstrative of the effectiveness.
I can also tell you that my failure to partake in one certain drug with certain ropelike qualities is governed primarily by the effect of a sudden job loss on my children's welfare.
I'm not against drug use on the individual level: it is on the macroscopic level that I understand the current policy.
Do you ever go outside, or just sit in the basement masturbating to your socialist fantasies of free drug use? Do you have any conception of the lack of insight demonstrated by your statements, and puerile, invalid analogies?
The only remnant of our civilization would be a syringe. Imagine the alien archaeologists poring over that one.
In any event, you will always lose in the court of public opinion, which was my point.
The acid head does nothing useful for society, therefore his/her opinion is worthless.
Ultimately the direction of society is governed by the 'do's rather than the 'do not's. You can argue the point, but 'Atlas Shrugged' is a myth - it never gets that far, the 'do's have their way, for just that reason. They do.
I point to the war on drugs itself as proof positive of this.
If you view the drug war as a fixed-length eradication mission, it's a failure and always will be. If you view it as a long term, perhaps permanent drive to avoid a situation like China during the Opium Wars, well...then it can be only considered a major success compared to the alternative.
Anyone who was alive in the 70s can tell you that things have only gotten better in the workplace and socially as a result of the reduction in penetration of society of drugs. It was _everywhere_ then, in plain view, and affecting the behavior of nearly all.
The key difference between then and now was the bald acceptance of such things as quaaludes, prescription valium, diet pills, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol while driving. Ever wonder why pictures of people from back then seem so bugged out? Don't wonder.
I doubt many of those bitching were alive back then, however, and do not understand the logic.
Telecoms providing tariffed services subject to government regulation are not fans of change. Anything they can do to inhibit change and protect their current revenue stream is something that they will do. Some less well-informed people will read his comments and think twice about investment in new technologies. Therefore, mission accomplished for him.
There are several approved shredders for various different uses on the Army list. Some are full disk wipe varieties, others are single file shredders. Some are for Win32, some for Unix/Linux. The govt generally can't single source things, and this isn't an exception.
That said, they all do the same thing: they overwrite the disk 7 times with a pseudorandom data set. The Mersenne Twister appears to be a current method of generating pseudorandom data nowadays.
So, if you find some software that will do that, you are good. The ones on the list just got themselves certified, inherently that doesn't make any other tool invalid. The thing is, the other tools are generally from small software houses without a proven track record.
I believe Symantec has an unapproved wipe utility, which I expect does the trick.
Classified drives are physically destroyed, however. So, take that under advisement.
For more details, google AR 25-2 (Information Assurance), which should tell you almost anything you'd want to know about how data is securely handled in the Army, and is unclassified.
The gag order applies to the jurors and the witnesses and is clearly stated to those testifying on their subpoena. Don't know about the jury, but probably similar there. The gag lasted for 3 months, and I was sent two renewals for an additional 3 months, for a total of 9 months of having to keep my mouth shut about some criminal insurance fraud.
The press would never be allowed into a closed grand jury session. How silly. Might as well put a bumpersticker with your credit card number and expiration date on your car too while you are at it there, Judge.
He ignored the threat and his instruments of policy reassured us that lobbing missiles at aspirin factories would solve the problem. He minimized the 1993 WTC bombing, the Cole bombing and the Khobar Towers bombings and failed to link the embassy bombings in E. Africa with the true culprit. Arguably, this negligence cost 2500 lives on 9/11.
Stop it with your political axe-grinding. Freaking leftists think they are the arbiters of truth and justice. Your side is at least as full of shit as the Republicans, and probably more.
Your whole second paragraph is some bs assumption on your part. I suppose you think straight people are subhuman, disgusting, and something you don't want going on in your town. Right?
Maybe I think marriage is a useful construct given declining birth rates amongst Western societies. We are mostly below replacement levels. If we are to preserve our own cultures we have to have more children. These children need to be raised in a secure environment with two parents. Marriage in its traditional form encourages this. Devaluing marriage has no positives for the state and a significant negative.
The failure of late 20th century social engineering projects has become manifest. This includes gay advocacy. We're going the way of the Romans unless we do something to stem the tide. If that's not cool, tough shit. Making people feel good about themselves in direct contravention to reality is not useful policy if we wish to survive.
Maybe K-mart can start selling KKK bed sheets now that Martha Stewart is a convicted criminal. It would be not quite as disturbing as having the institution of marriage devalued as it is today for the sake of some filthy lucre in taxes and medical benefits. That is _all_ that this current tempest in a teapot is about. Beside the incrementalist gay agenda of making the 'lifestyle choice' more acceptable to the masses.
Historically they chased their potential customers out first with hostile local staff back in the early days. Something to do with franchising and local ownership I suspect. However hostile, they had parts I wanted so I would brave the abuse and get them.
They cured that problem, but then began with the insistence on getting your blood type and a semen sample with each sale, no matter how small. I exaggerate slightly, but I stopped going there when they were asking for my address and phone number with every sale. I didn't want to give it for a $10 part. I found alternative sources.
By this point anyone who didn't wield a soldering iron daily was avoiding them like the plague, so what they do now can only be considered a near-terminus of their death spiral.
They forced the removal of the demons and devils (re-naming, actually, but same difference) and a few other alterations.
Chick was distributing these little tracts back in the 1980s too. I saw my copy back in 1987 or so. Hilarious. Seeing it on the web brought back memories.
I threw it out then. I still have my 1ed AD&D stuff, tho. With the demons and devils.
What else is there? Any other distro has the same '*insert package format here* hell' issues whenever you try to install something not maintained by the distro itself.
With Gentoo I can make a simple system simple, and I get my security updates without issue, and with distcc the pain of compiling is even reduced to a mild irritant.
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They shipped copies of it for a long time, in fact.
;-)
Here is the launch announcement. Microsoft shipped versions 1.0-1.3, but did not ship beyond that point as the MS/IBM divorce happened around then, culminating with IBM OS/2 2.0.
HEre are some screenshots. Note that the WLO libraries were apparently included in a product called the "Microsoft OS/2 Software Migration Kit". If one were to have a copy of Microsoft Systems Journal November 1990 -- Vol 5 No 6 then one would have record of this product, which has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth.
I had a shrinkwrapped copy in my hands when I worked at MicroWarehouse in 1989-91, so I know it existed then. We had about 40 of them. They weren't selling well.
People with clue about this are rare in these parts, it appears. It doesn't seem that long ago to me.
IBM would probably have radical difficulties renegotiating a deal to open source code that originated in Redmond.
I fear this one is a nonstarter for legal reasons.
Technically AX, BX, CX and DX were considered general purpose, but the truth is that they all had special meanings, CX being the increment counter, etc. So you're right, but everyone who read the MASM manual saw the tripe that the registers were general-purpose.
Even at this very moment, the EU is seeking to ban the open sale of fucking vitamins. Yes, vitamins.
You think you're going to have freedom to get high? Right. The workers will always crush the lazy ass drug addicts that you favor.
So, revel in your ultimate defeat, asshole.
Fucking asshole.
Your slur doesn't even deserve an intelligent reply.
No, I don't know that that would be wrong. Jimmy Carter spoke of a 'malaise' infecting our society in the run up to the 1980 election. Think he might have been on to something there?
I do know this: there were people that I knew then who were partaking in drugs all around me. I do know this also: those same people would be under siege by law enforcement today and would have a hard time keeping their jobs due to random piss tests. To that extent, the drug policies have had the requisite effect and kept the use out of certain quarters. The black market in clean urine is pretty demonstrative of the effectiveness.
I can also tell you that my failure to partake in one certain drug with certain ropelike qualities is governed primarily by the effect of a sudden job loss on my children's welfare.
I'm not against drug use on the individual level: it is on the macroscopic level that I understand the current policy.
Do you ever go outside, or just sit in the basement masturbating to your socialist fantasies of free drug use? Do you have any conception of the lack of insight demonstrated by your statements, and puerile, invalid analogies?
The only remnant of our civilization would be a syringe. Imagine the alien archaeologists poring over that one.
In any event, you will always lose in the court of public opinion, which was my point.
The acid head does nothing useful for society, therefore his/her opinion is worthless.
Ultimately the direction of society is governed by the 'do's rather than the 'do not's. You can argue the point, but 'Atlas Shrugged' is a myth - it never gets that far, the 'do's have their way, for just that reason. They do.
I point to the war on drugs itself as proof positive of this.
If you view the drug war as a fixed-length eradication mission, it's a failure and always will be. If you view it as a long term, perhaps permanent drive to avoid a situation like China during the Opium Wars, well...then it can be only considered a major success compared to the alternative.
Anyone who was alive in the 70s can tell you that things have only gotten better in the workplace and socially as a result of the reduction in penetration of society of drugs. It was _everywhere_ then, in plain view, and affecting the behavior of nearly all.
The key difference between then and now was the bald acceptance of such things as quaaludes, prescription valium, diet pills, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol while driving. Ever wonder why pictures of people from back then seem so bugged out? Don't wonder.
I doubt many of those bitching were alive back then, however, and do not understand the logic.
Telecoms providing tariffed services subject to government regulation are not fans of change. Anything they can do to inhibit change and protect their current revenue stream is something that they will do. Some less well-informed people will read his comments and think twice about investment in new technologies. Therefore, mission accomplished for him.
There are several approved shredders for various different uses on the Army list. Some are full disk wipe varieties, others are single file shredders. Some are for Win32, some for Unix/Linux. The govt generally can't single source things, and this isn't an exception.
That said, they all do the same thing: they overwrite the disk 7 times with a pseudorandom data set. The Mersenne Twister appears to be a current method of generating pseudorandom data nowadays.
So, if you find some software that will do that, you are good. The ones on the list just got themselves certified, inherently that doesn't make any other tool invalid. The thing is, the other tools are generally from small software houses without a proven track record.
I believe Symantec has an unapproved wipe utility, which I expect does the trick.
Classified drives are physically destroyed, however. So, take that under advisement.
For more details, google AR 25-2 (Information Assurance), which should tell you almost anything you'd want to know about how data is securely handled in the Army, and is unclassified.
'nuff said!
Same logic, right?
The gag order applies to the jurors and the witnesses and is clearly stated to those testifying on their subpoena. Don't know about the jury, but probably similar there. The gag lasted for 3 months, and I was sent two renewals for an additional 3 months, for a total of 9 months of having to keep my mouth shut about some criminal insurance fraud.
The press would never be allowed into a closed grand jury session. How silly. Might as well put a bumpersticker with your credit card number and expiration date on your car too while you are at it there, Judge.
He ignored the threat and his instruments of policy reassured us that lobbing missiles at aspirin factories would solve the problem. He minimized the 1993 WTC bombing, the Cole bombing and the Khobar Towers bombings and failed to link the embassy bombings in E. Africa with the true culprit. Arguably, this negligence cost 2500 lives on 9/11.
Then, his National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, starts shoving classified documents down his pants at the National Archives and stealing them, with a clear intent to alter the historical record in this regard.
Stop it with your political axe-grinding. Freaking leftists think they are the arbiters of truth and justice. Your side is at least as full of shit as the Republicans, and probably more.
Your whole second paragraph is some bs assumption on your part. I suppose you think straight people are subhuman, disgusting, and something you don't want going on in your town. Right?
Maybe I think marriage is a useful construct given declining birth rates amongst Western societies. We are mostly below replacement levels. If we are to preserve our own cultures we have to have more children. These children need to be raised in a secure environment with two parents. Marriage in its traditional form encourages this. Devaluing marriage has no positives for the state and a significant negative.
The failure of late 20th century social engineering projects has become manifest. This includes gay advocacy. We're going the way of the Romans unless we do something to stem the tide. If that's not cool, tough shit. Making people feel good about themselves in direct contravention to reality is not useful policy if we wish to survive.
Maybe K-mart can start selling KKK bed sheets now that Martha Stewart is a convicted criminal. It would be not quite as disturbing as having the institution of marriage devalued as it is today for the sake of some filthy lucre in taxes and medical benefits. That is _all_ that this current tempest in a teapot is about. Beside the incrementalist gay agenda of making the 'lifestyle choice' more acceptable to the masses.
Card is right on target with that stuff.
Historically they chased their potential customers out first with hostile local staff back in the early days. Something to do with franchising and local ownership I suspect. However hostile, they had parts I wanted so I would brave the abuse and get them.
They cured that problem, but then began with the insistence on getting your blood type and a semen sample with each sale, no matter how small. I exaggerate slightly, but I stopped going there when they were asking for my address and phone number with every sale. I didn't want to give it for a $10 part. I found alternative sources.
By this point anyone who didn't wield a soldering iron daily was avoiding them like the plague, so what they do now can only be considered a near-terminus of their death spiral.
They forced the removal of the demons and devils (re-naming, actually, but same difference) and a few other alterations.
Chick was distributing these little tracts back in the 1980s too. I saw my copy back in 1987 or so. Hilarious. Seeing it on the web brought back memories.
I threw it out then. I still have my 1ed AD&D stuff, tho. With the demons and devils.
Third Reich is one of my favorites. Prados did an *excellent* job with this.
I'm doing the same thing for your disloyal side, so we're even.
My memory lasts forever. Hope yours does too.
Their holes are exceedingly well decorated and they dress really well.
He's just an anti-American leftist. Nothing unusual around here.
? Inquiring minds want to know.
Gentoo :-)
What else is there? Any other distro has the same '*insert package format here* hell' issues whenever you try to install something not maintained by the distro itself.
With Gentoo I can make a simple system simple, and I get my security updates without issue, and with distcc the pain of compiling is even reduced to a mild irritant.