This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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The only thing worse than the software from the office is the software from the school which is why the office has the PC in the first place! Educational discounts are great (I an a teacher myself) but it needs to be made clear that the educational site license ends…
Motorola had an ad that ran in some of the trade papers. It was a 2 page ad that asked what you got with a 50 mhz 486, DOS 5.0, and MS Windows 3.1. Answer, 2/3 of a Mac Quatro! Winmarks and applications benchmarks were included sourced from PC Mag.…
BMM2 problems
Message #46414
I have been having intermitent troubles with the BMM2 compiler ever since upgrading to version 2.04 of AmigaDOS. I just traced part of the problem down. The SIN and COS functions of MathLib0 will cause a software failure 8000-000b some times. As a result, many programs are now broken. Also,…
Depends, is your penny British, American, Canadian, Jamacan, …? Gary Dunlap : Wyrd Software : It just works like magic!
Motorola says they are finishing the RISC implementation of the instruction set in the '060, and adding superscaler. That should result in a lot of speed when runing out of cache, and a massive degradation on cache misses. The caches are to be larger as well. This should result in…
Admitedly it can be done, but what is the level of demand for DOS machines to read Amiga disk? Can you imagin a company trying to sell a BIOS which has as its primary extra the ability to read and write AmigaDOS disk? They might be able to sell a…
The Amiga format has more sectors per track than the IBM format. The IBM systems have the routines for reading disk in ROM, and only know a very few track formats, and none of them match the Amiga format. Without modifying the BIOS, or replacing it, the IBM machine cannot…
With the 68040 and upcoming 68060 CPU's, RISC speed is not out of the reach of CISC computers. The 060 will be a RISC, superscaler processor. As such, the performance difference between it and superscaler RISC processors may be in favor of the 060. It will definitly be speed competitive…
Thanks for the address. Our procurment people don't do very well with CSI addresses! We are trying to improve the integration of or Amiga's into the DECNet network. We have Pathworks for DOS and Macintoshes. The requirements we have for network interfaces are: 1. Ability to share files from DECNet…
#ENLAN address wanted
Message #64071
I am looking for the source of ENLAN so I can get more information. If anyone can get me the address or phone/fax number I would greatly appreciate it. Gary Dunlap : Wyrd Software : It just works like magic!
The distribution we have does not have file access either. FAL only respondes to MIRROR, and there is no hook to remote FALs. We have only CTERM, and Task to Task programers support. Gary Dunlap : Wyrd Software : It just works like magic!
What version is TSSnet at now? We tried 1.01, but it lacked file access, printer access, and LAT support. Also, what level of integration is the printer access? Can I print to it with applications which only know the PRT:, PAR, and SER devices, or does it require running a…
Where can I get more information on ENLAN-DFS? Gary Dunlap : Wyrd Software : It just works like magic!
Thanks for the information. We can get creative if we have to, but would rather not. The 3000T gives us so much more expandability that we realy want it as our base system. Gary Dunlap : Wyrd Software : It just works like magic!
DECNET LAN connection
Message #63048
I manage a DECNET based LAN includeing PC's Macs, VAX and Eclipse computers. We are looking to add some Amigas to the net. The network is Ethernet based and we have Ethernet cards for the Amiga. Required services are file sharing under VMS security, network printer access, and task to…
Toaster for 3000T
Message #41555
We are looking to get an Amiga 3000T for multimedia work. We were wondering if there is a Video Toaster which will work in this system. Gary Dunlap : Wyrd Software : It just works like magic!
I know this sounds trivial, but is the baud rate within the range of the modem? Try simply opening SER: and doing I/O to it as a file. Otherwise I am not sure but that whatever data hapens to be in the configuration when you open the channel overwrights the…
All chip memory must be on the motherboared, because the expansion card slots are on the CPU side of the buffers that seperate the CPU and fast RAM from the custom chips and chip RAM. You should find that there are 16 empty sockets (or missing chips) on the motherboard…
We have 3 such printers (actualy IIID's) and have had very little trouble. The printers are on a LAN containing 2 Amiga's, 3 VAX computer, and many AT class clones. If a large amount of non-postscript (or unsuported postscript) data is sent to the printer it will hang processing data.…
Modula2 is extended Pascal, so all your experience with Pascal would cary over. The big differences are the I/O and the concept of a module (seperate compilation, specification and body). The compilers will check for more errors than C or Pascal ever could. As a result you will probably have…
At least for Governments, UNIX has NOT taken over. POSIX compliant OS's may take over, but as no UNIX to date is POSIX compliant, and 3 non-UNIX OS's are, that does not mean UNIX!!!! POSIX gives any OS which has it more compatablility than UNIX. Now POSIX compliant AmigaDOS sounds…
If James is right about the setup speed, booting from the slower drive might solve the problem! >> Gary
Interesting, I know it is not easy to program the serial device, but it does work. Are you using the SDCmdSetParams command to set the parameters? Seting them when you open the device does not set all the parameters. Other parameters can only be set at opening the device. In…
Michelle, The primary reason for PostFix notation is to do the actual evaluation. Most assemblers and interpreters use postfix format for the actual evaluation. First values are move into registers or pseudo registers, then the operations are done. For example, the standard way to do (a+b)*c in 68000 assembler would…
Actualy, using a VT100 emulator is very simple. The VT100 is ANSI terminal. Logon to the UNIX host with the emulator as if it were just anouther terminal. When you are in, run KERMIT on the remote host, and make it SERVER. Then the commands for geting, sending, and finishing…
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AmigaVision
Message #3225
Steve, Not when much of the program lockes into variables, types, procedures, and function defined by the compiler writer. Also, the same structure may not need the same emphasis everywhere it is used. In some cases a variable is only needed for minor reference, where elsewhere in the program it…
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AmigaVision
Message #2662
Don, Part of my problem is that I work in a number of environments where case sensitivity is NOT used. AmigaDOS, Ada, VMS, AOS/VS to name a few. I also fine all caps programs hard to read, but like to chose my own style in selections of what to capitalize…
#2351-
AmigaVision
Message #2661
Steve, Your comment about limitations is well taken. IMHO case sensitivity _IS_ a limitation I can do without. The use of case for emphasis, and the ablility to use my own style in selection of where to use capitalization and when to use lower case or mixtures helps clarify the…
John: I have 2 drives on my 2091 and have had no problems at all with errors. This arrangment has been in use for almost a year. >> Gary
For chip memory, I would expect to allocate a page and use it repeatedly until the page is exausted (that page would not be availible to other task for allocation). There would be upto one page of waste per task (20 pages total) of chip memory, and the same for…
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Terminal Emulation
Message #112276
I am currently working on a VT320 emulator, then I will start on a D214 emulator. The Dasher terminals have a very different method of control than the ANSI/VT terminals. I have already done a D214 emulator for AT class clones, so I should have very little trouble with the…
Steven, You hit the problem right on the head with the marketing problem. Maybe AMIX will convince the software houses to treat the AMIGA better, and interchangability such as IFF will be expanded and tightened to make truely portable data a reality. >> Gary
We are using the 5000/80 from the Sperry side. It uses 1 to 4 68020 processors each with 68851 and 68881 coprocessors. We fine UNIX about the single most oversold OS we have ever heard of. Rate it about where CPM was in the early 80's. Now that UNISYS, DEC,…
Steven, That sounds about par for Incompatable Buisness Machines. The easy thing to do will never creap into their Ity Bitty Mindes. My respect for IBM, MicroSoft and INTEL has gone from low down as my experience with thier products advances. The problem is that I have to keep about…
Just a note that I agree that having VM as part of the OS sounds great. It works much better with HW support of a MMU, so the 500 and 2000 machines without accelerators would have problems with VM. I think C= could do what IBM never did, two track…
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Question on ARRAYs
Message #17311
Art: I just tested my other 2 languages (AC/FORTRAN 2.2 and Aztec C 3.4) and neither of them had any problem with long integer arrays of 10000*10. The Aztec did require that I use a large data model, but had no problems with the 400,000 byte array. Note that both…
#68881 support
Message #17185
Leon: I just did some bencmark testing using LATTIC C and a loop of 70000 multiplies and divides. The test involves inlined 881 code, standard Amiga IEEE libraries, IEEE without coprocessor, and FFP. Part of the speed of the 881 code is due to the small loop used. Part is…
#17007-
68882 suport
Message #17016
Try the Mandelbrout series fractals with a crunch of 300. This will take considerable time per pixel for the interesting regions, so drawing time is not significant. There are atleast 2 versions here in one of the libraries. One of them is writen in M2S modula, the other in TDI…
68882 suport
Message #16972
Leon: It is not realy a case of anything but comput intense applications. The application I am thinking about does between 100 million and 1 billion real multiplications per itteration. This takes on the order of an hour in 68882 instruction times at 25MHZ based on Motola data and the…
There is a 3 pin connector along the top edge of the 2091 near the middle of the card. The correct connector is the farthest back on the card.
68882 suport
Message #16885
I do a lot of real number problems which are extreemly comput intensive (up to 6 hours run time using FFP) and am looking for a compiler for a structured, modular language like Ada or MODULA2 which supports the 68882 coprocessor for math opperations. I have not been able to…
This whole thread sounds very familiar to me. Fantasy books started about where the games are today. In the late 70's and early 80's there were many backlash books writen by feminist which were equaly bad in the opposite direction. Now a large number of the stories have outgrown both…