Hello from Gregg C Levine Close. It's when the internal temperature of the system rises to a point when it quite literally runs itself into a burnout. The internal design of the Commodore machines was, well, bad. They actively encouraged the destruction of their machines, that way. Not surprisingly an Apple 2+, also did. They needed a fan, when their machines were heavily loaded. A unit who wore one card, say a disk drive controller, did not need one. But as far as the PC is concerned, most of the problems have been solved. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Lucius, Leland > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] URGENT! really low performance. A related questio n... > > > > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > > And I have worked in both assembler on a Sym-1, (now retired!), and > > two species of Apple 2. Also worked in Floating Point Basic in those > > Apples. You do realize, Leland, that your Vic-20, was a candidate for > > thermal run-away? > > > Well, I reckon I don't. Heck, I'm not even sure what a termal run-away is. > Is that like a hot headed kid that thinks it knows better than everyone else > and decides to leave home to prove it? > > :-) > > Leland
