* John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-09-06 22:03]:
>
> Lots of people think it stopped being SuSE when it became SUSE.
>
If you are shooting at Novell here, iirc, the change from SuSE to SUSE
came before Novell purchased SUSE.
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James Knott wrote:
> John E. Perry wrote:
>> Ken Jennings wrote:
>>> ... But they only do that when they're too lazy to flip the switches by
>>> hand on their Altairs.
>>>
>> Hey, I did that! Well the bootloader, at least -- on Digital PDP-8,
>> PDP-11, HP 2100, hp21mx, General Automation SPC-16,
On Friday 10 November 2006 07:49, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 08/11/06 21:11, Matt T. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 08:13, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> >> Have you already made you mind up that SUSE is no more? And what
> >> basis?
> >
> > 1) Experience with seeing Novell buying, hyping, ki
On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:46, Ken Jennings wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, James Knott wrote:
> > Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > > On 09/11/06 06:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > I thought real programmers write code at the command line: in DOStalk,
> > > copy con filename.exe
> >
> >
* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
> Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
Does a VIC-20 count??
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On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:30 -0500, JJ Gitties wrote:
> But it's not gonna happen. 10.1 is probably going to be my last SUSE
> distro. I am going Ubuntu or Fedora. I would ever go with Red Hat at this
> point. They seem the lesser of evils.
>
Forget Dead Rat try CentOS. I know someone who will
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:19 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> >
> I love it! You guys should go on the Letterman show, or something.
> But I must tell you that I kept a 4" diameter roll of paper tape, punched
> on a model 35, for over 30 years, in my desk, thinking it might come
> in handy someday.
On Thursday 09 November 2006 20:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> My dictionary contains SuSE :-P
>
> --
> Cheers,
>Carlos E. R.
This is the way I've been writing it since someone corrected me back in
August.
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Could we please take this totally off topic thread to private email please.
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On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 06:55 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> John E. Perry wrote:
> > Ken Jennings wrote:
> >> ... But they only do that when they're too lazy to flip the switches by
> >> hand on their Altairs.
> >>
> >
> > Hey, I did that! Well the bootloader, at least -- on Digital PDP-8,
> > PDP-11
On Friday 10 November 2006 15:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
> > Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
>
> Does a VIC-20 count??
I suppose it can count up to $ff before using multi-byte math.
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At 03:42 PM 11/10/2006 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
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>* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
>> Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
>
>Does a VIC-20 count??
>--
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On Friday 10 November 2006 22:09, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
>
>
> I owned a TRS80-4P up until I could afford to buy my first 486. I did
> word processing on it. We still had Windows 3.1.1 and I think it was
> DOS 6.0 on that DX2-66 with 4 meg. I think its guts are in a box here
> some pla
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The Friday 2006-11-10 at 22:38 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:
> Does everyone interested in computing save this kind of stuff? I'm criticized
> for it all the time. I kept a TRS80, a TI99, and three 286's laying around
> until I had to move, and was fo
On Saturday 11 November 2006 06:40, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> I do... I have my Amstrad PC 512 in working order ;-)
Now that's one I'm not familiar with. And, it's good to see that I got thru
with the new address.
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Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
>> Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
>
> Does a VIC-20 count??
I modified a couple of those, to increase memory from 5K to 8K (yes,
that's right, 8 kilobytes!)
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The Saturday 2006-11-11 at 11:26 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:
> On Saturday 11 November 2006 06:40, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >
> > I do... I have my Amstrad PC 512 in working order ;-)
>
> Now that's one I'm not familiar with. And, it's good to see that
On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:29, Ed McCanless wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 20:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > My dictionary contains SuSE :-P
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >Carlos E. R.
>
> This is the way I've been writing it since someone corrected me back
> in August.
Well.ha
On Saturday 11 November 2006 16:02, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Saturday 2006-11-11 at 11:26 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 November 2006 06:40, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > I do... I have my Amstrad PC 512 in working order ;-)
> >
> > Now that's one I'm not familiar with. And, it's good
On Friday 10 November 2006 12:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
> > Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
>
> Does a VIC-20 count??
Only to the extent that when I brought one back from Oregon to Canada, where
they weren't available at the
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The Saturday 2006-11-11 at 19:36 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > Mine had two disketes and 512 KB, CGA mono graphics. Later I added a 32MB
> > HD on card, plus a termally regulated fan I designed myself.
>
> Buddy of mine in Stuttgart, Germany had one.
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The Saturday 2006-11-11 at 20:05 -0800, Robert Smits wrote:
> > Does a VIC-20 count??
>
> Only to the extent that when I brought one back from Oregon to Canada, where
> they weren't available at the time, I had it bungied to the back of my
> motor
Ed McCanless wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 22:09, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
>
>> I owned a TRS80-4P up until I could afford to buy my first 486. I did
>> word processing on it. We still had Windows 3.1.1 and I think it was
>> DOS 6.0 on that DX2-66 with 4 meg. I think its guts are in
Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> The Friday 2006-11-10 at 22:38 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:
>
> > Does everyone interested in computing save this kind of stuff? I'm
> criticized
> > for it all the time. I kept a TRS80, a TI99, and three 286's laying
> around
> > until I had to move, and was forced to reduce
Robert Smits wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 12:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
>> * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
>>
>>> Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
>>>
>> Does a VIC-20 count??
>>
>
> Only to the extent that when I brought one back fro
At 07:43 AM 11/12/2006 -0500, James Knott wrote:
>
>Ed McCanless wrote:
>> On Friday 10 November 2006 22:09, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
>>
>/snip/
>> Does everyone interested in computing save this kind of stuff? I'm
criticized
>> for it all the time. I kept a TRS80, a TI99, and three 286's l
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 17:43 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-10-06 13:22]:
> >> Also, CP/M was around before the Trash-80. ;-)
> >
> > Does a VIC-20 count??
>
> I modified a couple of those, to increase memory from 5K to 8K (yes,
> tha
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 06:55 -0500, James Knott wrote:
>
>> Ah yes, the PDP-8 RIM loader. Brings back (core) memories. ;-)
>>
>> Incidentally, I still have a core memory plane (4 Kbits IIRC) from a
>> Collins 8500B.
>>
>
> The Smithsonian Museum is searchin
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