On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:07:54, Dave P wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Ironically, this is more-or-less what Nasta designed as the Aurora II.
>
>My only discomfort over Nasta's design is that he is extremely concerned
>about efficiency of space. Therefore, he's crammed an awful lot into a
>v
> > To develop a board for a laptop is an interesting proposition. It's about
> > the same as the challenge of developing a board for a PC, but with
> > additional power challenges.
>
> The QL uses such minimal power that unless we are using Coldfire this
> can be ignored.
>
> > If a QL-replaceme
> >Remember, each different GDI printer needs its own driver...
> I have mentioned this so many times. ProForma as it stands will only
> print to printers for which it has drivers and there are no ESC/P raster
> drivers. The cheap printers have no emulations. Even the expensive
> printers often
Rich Mellor and I mentioned a SER/PAR to PFF string exchanger, along the lines
of the old MDV to FLP string converters.
I had a go at writing this last night. The coding was fairly straightforward
and a simple
INPUT"Search for..."
INPUT"Replace with..."
ALCHP
LBYTES
SEXEC
type of program exist
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:32:40 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 19:10:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:00:34 -0600 (CST), Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
I know I could have used a serial lead but there is no long
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:00:02 +, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On 25 Nov 2004 at 15:52, Rich Mellor wrote:
I am glad to see that this has at least inspired some interest and
hopefully we will see the beginnings o
Roy wood wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On 25 Nov 2004 at 15:52, Rich Mellor wrote:
I am glad to see that this has at least inspired some interest and
hopefully we will see the beginnings of some work towards an actual
product - although we still
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:06:58 +, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rich Mellor and I mentioned a SER/PAR to PFF string exchanger, along the
lines of the old MDV to FLP string converters.
I had a go at writing this last night. The coding was fairly
straightforward and a simple
INPUT"Search for..."
I
Rich Mellor wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:43:29 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 25 Nov 2004 at 18:46, Rich Mellor wrote:
"Just" add a graphics filter. I'll let this stand as is.
I have no idea how easy it is to pass a PIC file to Proforma - Joachim??
Great to know that PROf
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:33:47 -, P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Wolfgang Lenerz writes:
> > To to this within the device driver will be a non trivial task
because
you
> > wil have to open a filing system channel from withing the open call
of
a non
> > filing system device driver.
>
> Tha
P Witte wrote:
Wolfgang Lenerz writes:
Or skip the Thing altogether and make its fuctionality part of the PFF
device driver:
On the Open call the PFF device driver's primary functions are
decode the name
check the details
set up and configure a channel definition block
If all of the ab
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:46:45 +, Derek Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I do not want to run Linux or Windows, so that makes the current laptops
a non starter.
Derek
Ooh - a call for QPC 1 :-)
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> > Of course there is. What is wrong with qtpi? That will work with any old
> > terminal program on any platform.
>
> Have never used qtpi I must admit - now here's another possible article
> for Quanta if someone wants to write it.. How to use QTPI and/or transfer
> files between the QL and
> The other option is to check the word before the string to see if it
> contains the right length (ie. 3 to 6 characters??). If the value >3 then
> just check for permitted characters at the end of the SER or PAR device
> (eg. "ser1ex") - not too sure what the allowable characters are and my
> > I have no idea how easy it is to pass a PIC file to Proforma - Joachim??
>
> Great to know that PROforma has existsed for (I think) close to ten
> years now, and still hardly anybody knows anything about it :-(
The term is more like "knew" rather than "knows". I probably have forgotten
more
> > Hi,
> >
> > I do not want to run Linux or Windows, so that makes the current laptops
> > a non starter.
> >
> > Derek
> >
>
> Ooh - a call for QPC 1 :-)
> --
> Rich Mellor
What makes you think he wants to run DOS???
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Rich Mellor wrote:
Trouble is Per, that you cannot do all this within a device driver
because it is running in supervisor mode.
I also understand that a non-directory device cannot open a channel to a
file
This is why the THING was envisaged
As the thing will be called in supervisor mode its
I've received an article for Toady about the QL network and it poses an
interesting question, hopefully someone here will know the answer.
It's about mixing sernet and QL network machines.
He asks if, say 2 QLs and a PC could be on a mixed network.QL 1 (n1_ and s1_)
and QL 2 (n2_) connected via
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:46:30 +, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've received an article for Toady about the QL network and it poses an
interesting question, hopefully someone here will know the answer.
It's about mixing sernet and QL network machines.
He asks if, say 2 QLs and a PC could be on a
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:41:13 +, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not want to run Linux or Windows, so that makes the current
laptops
> a non starter.
>
> Derek
>
Ooh - a call for QPC 1 :-)
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What makes you think he wants to run DOS???
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:46:04 +0100, Joachim Van der Auwera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Trouble is Per, that you cannot do all this within a device driver
because it is running in supervisor mode.
I also understand that a non-directory device cannot open a channel to
a file
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tony Firshamn wrote:
> We have about 50 on-line replies already so far - very encouraging.
>
> It is interesting seeing some old names popping up that I had thought
> were long away from the QL scene, notably Frank Davis and Michael
> Cronsten.
>
> Does anyone know
> >> Ooh - a call for QPC 1 :-)
> >> --
> >> Rich Mellor
> > What makes you think he wants to run DOS???
> > Dilwyn Jones
> Yeah but at least you could set up the boot sector to boot straight into
> QPC1 and therefore avoid seeing DOS altogether (could you not?? Or was
> that just QXL) ??
>
> --
Rich Mellor wrote:
> Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
> using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
> not disclose it to anyone without permission if it is for a commercial
> product
1) Have a look at Jochen's THING article
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
not disclose it to anyone without permission if it is for a commercial
product
1) Have a look at Joche
On 26 Nov 2004 at 1:33, P Witte wrote:
(...)
> On the Open call the PFF device driver's primary functions are
> decode the name
> check the details
> set up and configure a channel definition block
yes, indeed!
> If all of the above are ok then, on exiting,
> set the calling job'
On 25 Nov 2004 at 20:44, Rich Mellor wrote:
>
> The trouble is locating them - if these printers are so readily available
> at low prices, then what exactly are we developing this for as the QL can
> already output PCL 3 (just not the later versions).
Well all I (innocently) did to get this starte
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:10, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
> I wonder why it will not print from QPC2. ??
Me too!
If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
too.
Unless it's the way the printer port is set up in your bios (ECP EPP and
whatnot)
?
Wolfgang
-
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
> I still think that Di-Ren's software was a good idea - it allowed you to
> use the hard disk on a PC for storage - now if that could be used to store
> files within a QXL.WIN file on the PC Guess you'll say just run QTPI on
> both the QL and f
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(...)
> What I hadn't foreseen was a difficulty with the strings SER and PAR which
> don't happen with MDV, FLP, FDK or whatever.
>
> SER and PAR can occur within ordinary text and mess up the program. For
> example, my program swapped the words
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:00:39 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
I still think that Di-Ren's software was a good idea - it allowed you to
use the hard disk on a PC for storage - now if that could be used to
store
files within a QXL.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:00:39 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:10, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
I wonder why it will not print from QPC2. ??
Me too!
If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
too.
Unless it's the way the printer
On 26 Nov 2004 at 11:46, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
> As the thing will be called in supervisor mode itself, it could just
> keep track of some "ready for use" channels which are then passed to the
> device driver when needed. Then the problem is fully solved. The thing
> itself checks whet
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:11, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
> Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs hard
> drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for a
> QL emulator and all the header info etc was automatically stored and
> retrieved when yo
Rich Mellor writes:
> > Or skip the Thing altogether and make its fuctionality part of the PFF
> > device driver:
> >
> > On the Open call the PFF device driver's primary functions are
> > decode the name
> > check the details
> > set up and configure a channel definition block
> > If
Joachim Van der Auwera writes:
> A device driver can never setup a job.
You didnt read my algorithm: It doesnt. All it does is to CAUSE the calling
job to do that. This is an accepted tequnique in Qdos.
> This scheme has no support for multiple protocols though that could be
> built in somehow).
Rich Mellor writes:
> Hmm - still hoping someone will put themselves forward to look at writing
> the THING
>
> Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
> using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
> not disclose it to anyone without pe
Dilwyn Jones writes:
> What I hadn't foreseen was a difficulty with the strings SER
> and PAR which don't happen with MDV, FLP, FDK or whatever.
>
> SER and PAR can occur within ordinary text and mess up the
> program. For example, my program swapped the words Service
> and Pardon to PFFvice and P
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:54:49 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 25 Nov 2004 at 20:44, Rich Mellor wrote:
The trouble is locating them - if these printers are so readily
available
at low prices, then what exactly are we developing this for as the QL
can
already output PCL 3 (ju
Rich Mellor wrote:
> Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs hard
> drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for a
> QL emulator and all the header info etc was automatically stored and
> retrieved when you tried to copy files back from th
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:18:23 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:11, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs
hard
drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for
a
QL emulator and
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:29:46 GMT, Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs
hard
drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for
a
QL emulator and all the header info etc was automati
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:12:46 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 11:46, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
As the thing will be called in supervisor mode itself, it could just
keep track of some "ready for use" channels which are then passed to the
device driver when n
Wolfgang Lenerz writes:
> > On the Open call the PFF device driver's primary functions are
> > decode the name
> > check the details
> > set up and configure a channel definition block
>
> yes, indeed!
>
> > If all of the above are ok then, on exiting,
> > set the calling job's pro
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06:45, Rich Mellor wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:32:40 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 19:10:03, Rich Mellor wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:00:34 -0600 (CST), Dave P
<[EMAIL PR
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 13:11:08, Rich Mellor wrote:
(ref:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:00:39 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>lenerz.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26 Nov 2004 at 10:06, Rich Mellor wrote:
>> (...)
>>> I still think that Di-Ren's software was a good idea - it allowe
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 13:29:46, Tarquin Mills wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Rich Mellor wrote:
Basically yes - Di-rens fileserver program allowed you to use the PCs hard
drive as storage for the QL - useful for backups at least - no need for a
QL emulator and all the header info etc was autom
Rich Mellor wrote:
Maybe the better option would be for all filter programs to be installed
into a common directory. Some form of header could be added (in REM
statements, C, or Machine code block) which could be interrogated by the
FILTER THING to find out what filters are available for each
Rich Mellor wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:12:46 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 11:46, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote:
As the thing will be called in supervisor mode itself, it could just
keep track of some "ready for use" channels which are then passed to the
d
P Witte wrote:
Joachim Van der Auwera writes:
A device driver can never setup a job.
You didnt read my algorithm: It doesnt. All it does is to CAUSE the calling
job to do that. This is an accepted tequnique in Qdos.
Don't think so. I would like to know the details about how that would be
done.
T
P Witte wrote:
Rich Mellor writes:
Hmm - still hoping someone will put themselves forward to look at writing
the THING
Does anyone have some source code I could look at for creating THINGs and
using them?? Need more than a simple example I guess - would of course
not disclose it to anyone without
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Tony Firshman wrote:
> ... but he isn't costing his time (8-)#
If he did, the community would have been laid to rest LONG ago. I think we
should all give a round of applause for Nasta...
> I must say I enjoy, especially with RomDisq, in getting a small compact
> PCBs, and
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Keep talking, we may get some viable ideas out of this yet!
Like a coldfire-powered PCMCIA card with QXL-like software? *smiles*
Dave
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Joachim Van der Auwera writes:
> >>A device driver can never setup a job.
> >
> > You didnt read my algorithm: It doesnt. All it does is to CAUSE the
calling
> > job to do that. This is an accepted tequnique in Qdos.
>
> Don't think so. I would like to know the details about how that would be
> d
Joachim Van der Auwera writes:
> > I hope nobody's thinking about writing a single line of fuctional code
> > before the design is finalised. I think weve all seen what that could
lead
> > to..
>
> I hope that anybody wanting and having time to actually write something
> simply goes ahead and doe
Hi all ,
Is there a way to have a "normal" cursor instead of a "x" in QD ?
/Michael
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Duncan Neithercut wrote:
> The final statement is the killer to close down the discussion at a
> premature stage by requesting volunteers for an unspecified project
> with no known resources and an indeterminate closure. This is
> from "Classic committee tactics" to block something new - read the
Per Witte wrote:
> How detailed do you want it?
>
> When the Open call is entered the system is in SV mode.
> The job making the call is the current job
> The current job's ID is known
> Current job is known to be alive and is not removable during the
> call
> Find its JCB entry
> Find its SP and
Michael Grunditz wrote:
> Is there a way to have a "normal" cursor instead of a "x" in QD ?
x means that it uses a sprite that cannot be displayed in the current
colour mode. As it uses the system sprites you have probably loaded
some system sprites that are incompatible with your colour mode.
Ma
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
>> I wonder why it will not print from QPC2. ??
> Me too!
> If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
> too.
> Unless it's the way the printer port is set up in your bios (ECP EPP and
> whatnot)?
USB vs parallel connection? Just my guess.
John Hall wrote:
> I think you'll find that the JCB is only updated when a task switch
> occurs...
>
> When a TRAP#n is executed, the PC and SP are saved on the
> supervisor stack, hence WL's earlier comment...
Oops! PC and SR, of course :-)
In supervisor mode, the job's SP is in the USP...
> >
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Grunditz wrote:
> > Is there a way to have a "normal" cursor instead of a "x" in QD ?
>
> x means that it uses a sprite that cannot be displayed in the current
> colour mode. As it uses the system sprites
Michael Grunditz wrote:
> Oh thats why it displays normal on qpc. How do I solve this ?
Well, don't load the high colour sprites.
Marcel
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Certainly, we don't need all the PC bells and whistles (fastest DVD
drives, terabytes of hard disk and so on), so a low end laptop would
probably suffice with a fast QL or Q60 type board put into it.
Production runs won't be that large,
Hi all,
I have just received my copy of the October / November Quanta magazine,
and it is back to being quite a good read, with a variety of articles.
Well done to Roy Bereton for his editorship.
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- Original Message -
From: "Rich Mellor"
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Yes, the survey MAY shed some light on the subject - however, what's the
betting that we get no more than 40 replies.
What's wrong with 40 replies? It may surp
- Original Message -
From: "David Tubbs"
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:41 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Thru the Looking Glass
The thought of Rory Bremner and the Two Johns comes to mind, but here we
have Three Johns who have shown themselves to be well and truly on the
other side of t
- Original Message -
From: "Rich Mellor"
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an
application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further
use.
Glad to hear
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:30, Rich Mellor wrote:
> No idea - I never owned it alas - guess a serial lead was supplied with
> the package
In that case, use sernet to transfer the files
It wouldn't be slower than the slaving prog...
Wolfgang
www.scp-paulet-
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:27, Rich Mellor wrote:
(...)
>
> Best option is to throw some files at the filter once it is running on a
> wide number of setups.
> Everyone uses different translates where one character in Quill is
> translated to various printer control codes, eg. to use italics, get both
P Witte wrote:
Joachim Van der Auwera writes:
A device driver can never setup a job.
You didnt read my algorithm: It doesnt. All it does is to CAUSE the
calling
job to do that. This is an accepted tequnique in Qdos.
Don't think so. I would like to know the details about how that would be
done.
Ho
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:13:19 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2004 at 13:30, Rich Mellor wrote:
No idea - I never owned it alas - guess a serial lead was supplied with
the package
In that case, use sernet to transfer the files
It wouldn't be slower than the slaving
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
> If you want information from Peter, why don't you email him privately? I had
> an extensive correspondence with him over QL2004 without any problems.
I have always found Peter to speak his own mind. He is always willing to
talk by email. I got off to a very
In message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich
Mellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
like my C80 - print from the QL and from Q40 but not from QPC2 which
will happily print to the EPL 6200 using ESC/P2. It is a veritable
minefield.
I wonder why it will not print from QPC2. ??
Marcel and I spent an ent
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joachim Van der Auwera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Look at Brother printers with DOS support. There are still quite a few
options. Maybe not the very cheapest ones, but there really is a lot of
choice. There are still a lot of legacy DOS applications around.
Now
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Me too!
If the same printer prints from the Q60, QPC should be able to handle it,
too.
Unless it's the way the printer port is set up in your bios (ECP EPP and
whatnot)
Tried all that. It prints fine from the PC and fine fr
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Derek Stewart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Hi,
I do not want to run Linux or Windows, so that makes the current
laptops a non starter.
Ah but you are a rare beast, Derek. Most people want to do at least one
of these other things.
--
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Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Kilgus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
USB vs parallel connection? Just my guess.
Nope. We tied that. See other posts
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Good point. During my recent XPriences I had to set my PC to boot up
from CD, as the CD would not install from DOS.
Did you solve the CD problem ? It only occurred to me today that it was
probably a lack of higher driver for the IDE bus t
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:40:57 -0600 (CST), Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, gwicks wrote:
If you want information from Peter, why don't you email him privately?
I had
an extensive correspondence with him over QL2004 without any problems.
I have always found Peter to speak h
Sorry Tarquin but I am not in posession of that exact information.
Duncan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mills
Sent: 26 November 2004 16:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ql-users] Quanta
Duncan Neithercut wrote:
> The final s
"The problem is analysing the data, and the big difficulty with the QL
survey
is that it will be too biased to the users of this list who may not be
typical of Quanta members."
Yes but they are typical of active QL users & the sort of people Quanta
needs to court.
What did you say you learned in m
Geoff
He has done a good bit of shooting also and IMHO for his personal
satisfaction first leaving aside the needs of the users who have rallied to
his call
and invested in the Qx0 series, time and real cash!
Its also no suprise that now when he appears some people thoughtlessly
continue
to shoot
On Nov 26, 2004, at 1:26 AM, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:07:54, Dave P wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
My only discomfort over Nasta's design is that he is extremely
concerned
about efficiency of space. Therefore, he's crammed an awful lot into a
very small 6-layer PCB. I w
Malcolm,
As an alternative on your side can't you set your email program to wrap
the lines for you? Both my email programs do this automatically and
all the emails that I have received from this list are fitted
automatically to my window width which is great! If someone forces
hard stops in a
Hi think that I saw Marcel ask this but if not:
Lets say that we come up with a way to print to a modern printer. But
don't all the printers use USB now? How would they connect to the
non-QPC QLs (or QPC on older computers without USB)?
Cheers,
jim
_
Dilwyn
The simple solution is Compact flash cards. A 256MB
card is only £30 in PC World - not the cheapest place either.
Readers exist on :
Qubide, PC and Qx0. The CF people have decided to use
FAT16 format for cards upto 1 GB. I expect but dont know
that zip drives under this capacity also use F
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:49:40 -0800, James Hunkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi think that I saw Marcel ask this but if not:
Lets say that we come up with a way to print to a modern printer. But
don't all the printers use USB now? How would they connect to the
non-QPC QLs (or QPC on older com
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, James Hunkins wrote:
> I would presume that he is using a couple of the layers for power and
> ground, which will help a lot with the higher speeds and tend to keep
> noise off the signals. Also, in manufacturing these days I believe in
> higher quantities that 6 layers isn
John Hall wrote:
> John Hall wrote:
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> > I think you'll find that the JCB is only updated when a task
> > switch occurs...
> >
> > When a TRAP#n is executed, the PC and SP are saved on the
> > supervisor stack, hence WL's earlier comment...
>
> Oops! PC and SR, of course :-)
>
> In supervisor mod
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:23:49, gwicks wrote:
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>- Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor"
>Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:54 PM
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>> Yes, the survey MAY shed some light on the subject - however, what's
>>the
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:43:33 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:23:49, gwicks wrote:
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- Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor"
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Yes, the
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:32:50 -, John Hall
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John Hall wrote:
John Hall wrote:
> I think you'll find that the JCB is only updated when a task
> switch occurs...
>
> When a TRAP#n is executed, the PC and SP are saved on the
> supervisor stack, hence WL's earlier comment
- Original Message -
From: "Malcolm Cadman"
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: [ql-users] October / November Quanta Magazine
I have just received my copy of the October / November Quanta magazine,
and it is back to being quite a good read, with a variety of articles.
Well d
- Original Message -
From: "Rich Mellor"
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter
Fair enough, but all I want is for him to post a message to the mailing
list or even one of the magazines, letting us know what developments are
happening every no
Not waving - drowning !
The first 60 of todays avalanche amounted to 287642 bytes in 6110 lines.
removing the voluminous headers - 2497 lines.
down to 2000 without signatures
1100 lines of largely irrelevant quoted text
A net 900 lines 31kb.
Is this really the medium for the task ?
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 22:12:26, Rich Mellor wrote:
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:43:33 +, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 21:23:49, gwicks wrote:
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- Original Message - From: "Rich Mellor"
Sent: Thursday,
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 22:14:29, gwicks wrote:
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>- Original Message - From: "Malcolm Cadman"
>Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 6:47 PM
>Subject: [ql-users] October / November Quanta Magazine
>
>
>
>> I have just received my copy of the October / November Quanta
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 23:00:51, David Tubbs wrote:
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>Not waving - drowning !
>
>The first 60 of todays avalanche amounted to 287642 bytes in 6110 lines.
>
>removing the voluminous headers - 2497 lines.
>down to 2000 without signatures
>1100 lines of largely irrelevant
There really is no need to include all the rubbish.
Tony
PS but I sometimes forget of course.
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Not 'arf !
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