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  1. Intel 05 product line? on Intel Drops Tejas, Xeon To Focus On Dual-Core Chips · · Score: 1

    Intel is dropping development of the Xeon Jayhawk.

    So the 05 Intel product line is:

    HP and Unisys Datacenter class servers: Itanium

    Desktop and Notebooks: Unnamed dual processor (assumed to be 64 bit, article doesn't say explicitly)

    Low range workhorse server: current 32 bit Xeon line, no enhancements coming? Does another shoe drop here?

  2. Re:CASE SOLVED on Sprint Routers Stolen; NYC Internet Outage Ensues · · Score: 1

    I see the parent is rated funny. I rate it insightful. The lesson here is that if you want security in a VZ colo, you use VZ services and you lease VZ equipment.

    I see a lot of posts suggesting we monitor ebay or tracing the MAC address of the devices when they come online. Fughedaboutit. Those cards sleep with the fishes, somewhere off Sandy Hook.

  3. Re:Do you come from the land down under? on SCO Seeks Licenses Down Under · · Score: 1

    I've wanted to ask Brits and Aussies this for awhile: This "antipodal" thing is fine, but when you leave on a journey from Britain to Australia you have to go east or west. After the Suez Canal was built, during the steamship era, you clearly traveled west (Britain) to east (Australia). Nowadays, I imagine air travel also involves a west to east journey. Is that right?

    When a Brit thinks of Australia, are they thinking "east", or is it "antipodal" and "down under". Brits don't think Australia = West, do they?

    Do Aussies think of Britain and Europe as West?

    My guess is most Americans, think Australia = way,way.....faraway WEST! Certainly "antipodal" would not come to mind.

    Which is funny in a way, when you think that Australia is due south of the Asian land mass, which is firmly entrenched in the popular mind as "Far East".

  4. Re:The Anti-CoCo conspiracy on First Computers · · Score: 1

    I remember the Coleco Adam. I had the coolest game machine of 1983...when I bought mine at the Zayre's on RI Ave in May,1985. I was looking to purchase an electric typewriter when I came across boxes and boxes of Coleco Adams, piled on top of each other, on close-out for $199.00. I knew the Coleco line had been discontinued right after Christmas '84. The price was so good, I didn't care, I grabbed a box and a box of every variant of compatible software that was still on display. The Coleco Adam was a full function typewriter and word processor, a great game machine (Zaxxon, Donkey Kong and others) that looked great on a 19 inch color TV. Plus it reacquainted me with BASIC. I even picked up CPM (a "business" microcomputer OS) that let me run Wordstar on the Adam. In the late 80s I picked up a CPM C compiler. I finally passed my Adam to my brother around 1990.