Re: Windows with ext2 WAS External Hard Drive formatting

2007-06-30 Thread Mike Schwartz
It keeps the same case as [...] I guess that is, referring to what it does when using Windows XP? (or, Vista?) (A previous post in this thread suggested that YMMV from one Windows to another (the mention of "95")) (top posted due to one toggle already in this thread, of bottom vs top -ian-ness

Re: Windows with ext2 WAS External Hard Drive formatting

2007-06-30 Thread Brant Evans
It keeps the same case as used in the save as dialog or as the filename already has. Brant On 6/30/07, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Brant Evans wrote: > > It works nicely when I have to use a Windoze system as a middle man > > between

Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?

2007-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
On Saturday 30 June 2007 12:58 pm, keith smith wrote: > In the early 80's the Army used an HP TI-59 to calculate Field         >  Artillery missions. > > > http://www.ti59.com/ti59.jpg My dad had a calculator like that! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?

2007-06-30 Thread keith smith
In the early 80's the Army used an HP TI-59 to calculate Field Artillery missions. http://www.ti59.com/ti59.jpg Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim wrote: >Lynn Newton wrote: >> But I'm sure there are a number of subscribers to this list >> who can one-up me with "I remember

Windows with ext2 WAS External Hard Drive formatting

2007-06-30 Thread JT Moree
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brant Evans wrote: > It works nicely when I have to use a Windoze system as a middle man > between two linux systems. I am curious. how does windows handle case sensitivity on the ext2 fs? Does it screw with the case like trying to capitalize the fi

Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?

2007-06-30 Thread Matt Graham
Jim wrote: >Lynn Newton wrote: >> But I'm sure there are a number of subscribers to this list >> who can one-up me with "I remember when" stories, by margins >> of several years at least. > I don't know if this would be in the one up category, but I remember > being a high school freshman in 1981

Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?

2007-06-30 Thread keith smith
"Most people of experience believed it produced bloated code" Boy does that sound familiar Lynn Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: C++, eh? When I first studied C (not ++, and pre-ANSI days), I got a book from a Walden bookstore on the far west side of town -- and I live in northeast Phoenix -

Re: UNIX= Grand-daddy of all modern operating systems?

2007-06-30 Thread keith smith
I was curious about dos being a clone of CPM and I found this interesting article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS Dan Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Msdos was fashioned from cp/m, apple macos from a xerox parc project, windows from macos, os/2 from a posix environment, winnt 3.x f

[ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?]

2007-06-30 Thread Mark Jarvis
(repost using email address I signed up with) In 1960 (+ or - a year) I took a programming class at ASU where we used the LGP-30. It had a 1000 (1024?) word drum and each word was 32 bits. The drum was the main memory--there was no other storage. It had 16--yes 16!--instructions with paper t