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From: Tony Lance on 13 Feb 2007 09:00 Big Bertha Thing dwarf Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/dwarf.html 42K Web Page Astrophysics net ring Access site Newsgroup Reviews including alt.astronomy White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, And Black Holes v1.0 01 sep 99 greg goebel public domain Contents List:- 1.THE DISCOVERY OF WHITE DWARFS 2.WHITE DWARFS AND ELECTRON DEGENERACY 3.THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF WHITE DWARFS 4.WHITE DWARFS AND THE AGE OF THE GALAXY 5.BEYOND WHITE DWARFS? 6.NEUTRON STARS DISCOVERED 7.CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUTRON STARS 8.MILLISECOND PULSARS AND OTHER UNUSUAL NEUTRON STARS 9.BLACK HOLES DISCOVERED? 10.MINIHOLES 11.COMMENTS, SOURCES, AND REVISION HISTORY Big Bertha Thing checklist Neighbour checklist 1.Your child beaten up? 2.Rat-proof dustbins? 3.Broken windows? 4.You have apologised? 5.Police called out? 6.Security lighting? 7.New fences? 8.No Leylandii? 9.No Russian Vine? 10.No Solicitors letters sent? Our score is 10, one neighbour scores 1, another scores 5. Tony Lance judemarie(a)bigberthathing.co.uk
From: Ken Smith on 14 Feb 2007 10:37 In article <equso2$8ss_002(a)s884.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: [.....] >So am I. PCs should have never implied one task running >at a time nor a single disk pathway. In days gone by, you could get channel controllers (alaIBM360) for the ISA bus. With a little programming skill, you could make things like transfering files happen without help from the main CPU. I expect these things will reappear as more demanding applications get written for Linux. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: MassiveProng on 14 Feb 2007 20:59 On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:37:51 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) Gave us: >In article <equso2$8ss_002(a)s884.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >[.....] >>So am I. PCs should have never implied one task running >>at a time nor a single disk pathway. > >In days gone by, you could get channel controllers (alaIBM360) for the ISA >bus. With a little programming skill, you could make things like >transfering files happen without help from the main CPU. I expect these >things will reappear as more demanding applications get written for Linux. > You guys are both idiots. http://tekmicro.com/products/product.cfm?id=57&gid=1 http://tekmicro.com/products/product.cfm?id=13&gid=1 The world has left you behind.
From: jmfbahciv on 15 Feb 2007 07:33 In article <eqvacf$mq6$3(a)blue.rahul.net>, kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <equso2$8ss_002(a)s884.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >[.....] >>So am I. PCs should have never implied one task running >>at a time nor a single disk pathway. > >In days gone by, you could get channel controllers (alaIBM360) for the ISA >bus. With a little programming skill, you could make things like >transfering files happen without help from the main CPU. The CPU should have had to manhandle I/O transfers other than telling the device to go and where to put its done interrupt. > I expect these >things will reappear as more demanding applications get written for Linux. NT should have been able to do this for thousands but it got borke. I was talking about simple things like being able to print a file, download yesterday's newsgroups posts, build an EXE while the PC user played a session of Pong! while waiting for everything to finish. This all should have happened on one machine without interfering with each other. For some strange reason, MS products can't chew gum and salivate at the same time; it appears that they think this is a feature. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 15 Feb 2007 07:36
In article <jff7t2160tu1ll3bb1k7t0k5beohqsv3ti(a)4ax.com>, MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:37:51 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net >(Ken Smith) Gave us: > >>In article <equso2$8ss_002(a)s884.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>[.....] >>>So am I. PCs should have never implied one task running >>>at a time nor a single disk pathway. >> >>In days gone by, you could get channel controllers (alaIBM360) for the ISA >>bus. With a little programming skill, you could make things like >>transfering files happen without help from the main CPU. I expect these >>things will reappear as more demanding applications get written for Linux. >> > > > You guys are both idiots. > >http://tekmicro.com/products/product.cfm?id=57&gid=1 > >http://tekmicro.com/products/product.cfm?id=13&gid=1 > > > The world has left you behind. In some ways, the world hasn't caught up with us. It's going to take another five years, I think, before the OS biz' main distributions get as agile as ours was in 1980. It's been almost 3 decades to reinvent the wheel. /BAH |