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  1. Wrong assumptions on Updated Information On Columbia Shuttle Tragedy · · Score: 1

    I agree fully.

    Probably this link is also mentioned in some other post(s): The Space-Glider

    It describes fairly detailed the landing procedure of a SpaceShuttle. Personally I trust this description more than the theories of the TIME article.

  2. Re: CPU clock speed... on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 1

    Yes, at floating point. But looking at http://www.macinfo.de/bench/specmark.html (first graphic) it seems PA-RISC is even better at integer (Alpha 500MHz = PA-RISC 350MHz SPECint95)

  3. Re:Alphas on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 1

    BTW, nice collection of hardware you have. I also collect hardware: besides the two HPs and the Alpha I have: - One DEC 5000/120 (20Mhz MIPS) - two Sun SPARCstation 10 (each dual HyperSPARCs) - a SPARCstation LX - Two old DEC 3000/600 computers (Alpha 21064) - Several PCs (PentiumII 266) all above running Linux, - a SGI O2 (MIPS R10k), Irix 6.1

  4. Re:Alphas on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 1

    I did. The support for OpenBSD was there earlier than for NetBSD (IIRC). Well, now it seems NetBSD is at least as "good" (=bad) as OpenBSD on PA-RISC ...

  5. Re:Alphas on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 1

    I have a 730 and a 782/C240. Forget the NetBSD and OpenBSD ports; have you ever tried it? look at the NetBSD mailing list: it BARELY boots multiuser, and just supports serial console and netboot (no booting from harddisk, no graphics, just HIL keyboards). It's even not a complete NetBSD distribution, there are just snapshots of the kernel and a few daemons/utilities! OpenBSD is the same if not even worse; you can be lucky if you even reach init! Don't get me wrong, NetBSD and OpenBSD are truely very good operating systems, but since HP supports the development of Linux/PA-RISC only - and not NetBSD/hp700 -, there is no point right now using anything else than HP/UX or Linux on those machines.

  6. Re:Alphas on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 1

    Seriously, there isn't anything you can't run NetBSD on, including alpha, x86, sparc, mips, ppc, your console, your cellphone, your calculator, your microwave, your fridge, your sofa, your chair, your bottle of beer, ...... I have two HP PA-RISC workstations at home ... they just run HP/UX or Linux. OpenBSD's kernel won't even boot. Oh, yes, I also have an Alpha AS500/500.

  7. Re:Intellimouse explorer on Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    It's probably your setup. It works for me for ages. Currently I'm still using Mozilla-1.0.0 and it works fine here. I assume you are talking about Linux, am I right? Make sure you have line like this in your XF86Config: in Section "InputDevice": Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

  8. Re:Hmmm on OpenBSD Requests UltraSPARC III Documentation · · Score: 1

    Did you read the mailing list? Obviously not.

  9. Re:Theo seems very Pro-SPARC on OpenBSD Requests UltraSPARC III Documentation · · Score: 3, Informative