My Vintage Dream PC

[Joe Makowiec]

Saratoga Springs, New York, commonly referred to simply as
"Saratoga", adjacent to the town of Saratoga, New York

http://www.saratogaautomuseum.com/

http://web.me.com/robertmonteleone/Drive_She_Said!/R-09.html

 

[Peter Flass]

???

In Australia:

Saratoga, New South Wales, coastal suburb of the city of Gosford

In the United States:

Saratoga, California, city in Santa Clara County
Saratoga, former name of Yeomet, California
Saratoga, Indiana, town in Randolph County
Saratoga, Nebraska Territory, boom and bust town now inside of Omaha,
Nebraska
Saratoga, New York, town
Saratoga County, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York, commonly referred to simply as "Saratoga",
adjacent to the town of Saratoga, New York
Saratoga Race Course, thoroughbred horse racing track
Saratoga, North Carolina, town in Wilson County
Saratoga, Texas, unincorporated community in Hardin County
Saratoga, Clarke County, Virginia, small unincorporated community
Saratoga, Wisconsin
Saratoga, Wyoming, town in Carbon County
Saratoga Passage, in Puget Sound, Washington

Sorry, I tend to think there's only one, even though I know about the
other one in CA. Saratoga Springs, NY.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

How odd, the published compression ratio on my car is 10.1 to 1, same
as my motorcycle.

Yes, and if you run low octane gas through the life of your car, it
will wear faster than with a higher octane number gas.

It was an IROC limit.

But 9.5 is pretty close to 10. Motorcycles are a different story.
They have different thermal management schemas.

 

[~alan HDX~]

11

Na - na - na Archie. He got you good that time. Deleting his post
won't make it go away. You spend enough time at the keyboard on
kiddie porn sites to know that. He even echoed my questions:

1. Explain your statement of celibacy (don't make yourself look like a
fool again by asking for a citation; you know that you said it - just
explain it)

2. Will you attempt the numerical puzzle? I'm becoming more and more
convinced that you are fully aware that you have very limited "outside
the box" intellectual abilities which often are a prerequisite to
solve these puzzles. You seem to be unwilling to take the risk of
failing in front of others - not a very good attribute for one who
professes to work in leading edge technology - if that's really true.

 

[FatBytestard]

What brand & model hard drive? Lots of old drives end up on Ebay, or
in someone's junkbox.

You're an idiot, Terrell.

 

[jmfbahciv]

[piggypacking a post since I can't find the correct one]

For John Larkin:

If you want to find out how much code any EXE file has, do
the following commands:

GET FOO.EXE
CORE

It should report how many K there is. But this doesn't
give the real size when the EXE is running.

/BAH
Or just PIP FOO.EXE/L ?

John

good grief, no.

/BAH

Why not? Because it includes overlays?

Real programmers don't use overlays.

Why don't you simply do what I suggested instead of arguing.
Look up what a /L does.

/BAH

 

[FatBytestard]

To be safe, you need not only brand & model, but revision level.
Yeah, I've tried. It's a crap shoot, sometimes it works but sometimes
it doesn't.

Now, maybe if instead of replacing the board, you just replace the bad
chip...

Dave

A much better fix. Many modern HDs have bad track maps stored in them
and are specific to the platter stack they were set up with.

 

[FatBytestard]

I've been hearing about their next release. Not good at all.

/BAH

Nice unsubstantiated, peanut gallery mentality comment.

WHAT have you heard?

Mine runs fine. Vista has run fine for over three years, and W7 has
been running fine for several months now. You nay sayer retards are
idiots.

I love it how folks that have ZERO actual experience with things
expound on them like they actually know what is going on.

You do not.

 

[jmfbahciv]

John Larkin wrote:

[piggypacking a post since I can't find the correct one]

For John Larkin:

If you want to find out how much code any EXE file has, do
the following commands:

GET FOO.EXE
CORE

It should report how many K there is. But this doesn't
give the real size when the EXE is running.

/BAH
Or just PIP FOO.EXE/L ?

John

good grief, no.

/BAH
Why not? Because it includes overlays?

Real programmers don't use overlays.

Why don't you simply do what I suggested instead of arguing.
Look up what a /L does.

/BAH

You don't make much of an effort to be helpful, do you?

You are more than annoying. A directory of the file
doesn't give you an idea of how the EXE will be mapped
in core.

I have been helpful as best as I can. I've answered your
question. Why you cannot comprehend that there is no
precise answer is beyond me. I'm beginning to think
that you are asking just to be a RPITA.


/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

Nice unsubstantiated, peanut gallery mentality comment.

WHAT have you heard?

Mine runs fine. Vista has run fine for over three years, and W7 has
been running fine for several months now. You nay sayer retards are
idiots.

I love it how folks that have ZERO actual experience with things
expound on them like they actually know what is going on.

You do not.

Sigh! Any release that revamps the file system smells like
trouble. and that's based on lots of experience. Even a
little twiddle of a bit causes undesired side effects.

/BAH

 

[Patrick Scheible]

John Larkin wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

[piggypacking a post since I can't find the correct one]

For John Larkin:

If you want to find out how much code any EXE file has, do
the following commands:

GET FOO.EXE
CORE

It should report how many K there is. But this doesn't
give the real size when the EXE is running.

/BAH
Or just PIP FOO.EXE/L ?

John

good grief, no.

/BAH
Why not? Because it includes overlays?

Real programmers don't use overlays.

Why don't you simply do what I suggested instead of arguing.
Look up what a /L does.

/BAH

You don't make much of an effort to be helpful, do you?

You are more than annoying. A directory of the file
doesn't give you an idea of how the EXE will be mapped
in core.

I have been helpful as best as I can. I've answered your
question. Why you cannot comprehend that there is no
precise answer is beyond me. I'm beginning to think
that you are asking just to be a RPITA.

It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to give a range. The
biggest I saw was xxx, the smallest was yyy.

-- Patrick

 

[Michael Wojcik]

???

In Australia:

Saratoga, New South Wales, coastal suburb of the city of Gosford

In the United States:

Saratoga, California, city in Santa Clara County
...

And don't forget Eaton Rapids, Michigan, aka "The Saratoga of the West".

Obviously this was a nickname coined when 1) Michigan was "the West",
and 2) any town wanted to be known as the Saratoga of anything.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

Sigh! Any release that revamps the file system smells like
trouble.

NTFS has not changed in 4 years or more. D'OH!

 

[jmfbahciv]

John Larkin wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

[piggypacking a post since I can't find the correct one]

For John Larkin:

If you want to find out how much code any EXE file has, do
the following commands:

GET FOO.EXE
CORE

It should report how many K there is. But this doesn't
give the real size when the EXE is running.

/BAH
Or just PIP FOO.EXE/L ?

John

good grief, no.

/BAH
Why not? Because it includes overlays?

Real programmers don't use overlays.

Why don't you simply do what I suggested instead of arguing.
Look up what a /L does.

/BAH
You don't make much of an effort to be helpful, do you?

You are more than annoying. A directory of the file
doesn't give you an idea of how the EXE will be mapped
in core.

I have been helpful as best as I can. I've answered your
question. Why you cannot comprehend that there is no
precise answer is beyond me. I'm beginning to think
that you are asking just to be a RPITA.

It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to give a range. The
biggest I saw was xxx, the smallest was yyy.

Sigh! But I never saw what each customer built. Every single monitor
was *different* depending on local mods and what the customer answered
during MONGEN time. If there are even a hundred (there were more)
questions, calculate the different combinations you could have;
you may assume that each question was a Yes or No (which they weren't).

The highest possible size would have been physical memory on the system
but it wouldn't have been possible to login.

/BAH


/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

John Larkin wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

[piggypacking a post since I can't find the correct one]

For John Larkin:

If you want to find out how much code any EXE file has, do
the following commands:

GET FOO.EXE
CORE

It should report how many K there is. But this doesn't
give the real size when the EXE is running.

/BAH
Or just PIP FOO.EXE/L ?

John

good grief, no.

/BAH
Why not? Because it includes overlays?

Real programmers don't use overlays.

Why don't you simply do what I suggested instead of arguing.
Look up what a /L does.

/BAH
You don't make much of an effort to be helpful, do you?

You are more than annoying. A directory of the file
doesn't give you an idea of how the EXE will be mapped
in core.

I have been helpful as best as I can. I've answered your
question. Why you cannot comprehend that there is no
precise answer is beyond me. I'm beginning to think
that you are asking just to be a RPITA.

It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to give a range. The
biggest I saw was xxx, the smallest was yyy.

-- Patrick

What she keeps saying is pretty much "I have more experience than you,
so I'm right and you're wrong", but otherwise fact-free.

Where did I say I was right and about what? Just becuase you pick
the one question which cannot be answered with a constant, you have
concluded....

Now really **** off.

/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

NTFS has not changed in 4 years or more. D'OH!

the next release isn't going to put indexing in the directory
blocks?

/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

They were going to add a big file system change for Vista, back when
it was called Longhorn. But they ran into trouble, and had to delay
that feature.

I was told that the file system would include keywords for indexing
so that "find"s would work faster. You don't need all that in
binaries. Most of the files on systems are in non-human-readable
format. This stuff doesn't belong in the UFD nor RIBs (DECisms).



/BAH

 

[Baron]

Quadibloc Inscribed thus:

Both Vista and Windows 7 have hardware requirements in excess of those
of Windows 98.

Windows 98 can play DVDs. What important feature does Vista have, or
did XP have, that Windows 98 was lacking? This is just a plot to grab
more money off of people - by making the new computers that come out
have a new operating system, new software gets targeted for the new
platform, and so people are eventually forced to upgrade for
interoperability reasons, even when their old computers are capable of
doing the work desired.

John Savard

I agree with you ! I stopped running Wincrap years ago.

 

[FatBytestard]

Both Vista and Windows 7 have hardware requirements in excess of those
of Windows 98.

No shit.

Windows 98 can play DVDs.

Can Windows 98 play HD form factor DVDs? Are there drivers for my SAS
controller? NO! Are there drivers for my simple HD DVD/BluRay drive?
I didn't even check. Why? because I have a brain. What about the new
USB specs?

What important feature does Vista have, or
did XP have, that Windows 98 was lacking?

An order of magnitude more secure, and a more robust kernel, which
means that a person's productivity goes up. For engineering, those hours
are expensive, so productivity numbers matter.

This is just a plot to grab
more money off of people

You are just an idiot that doesn't *really* know what computers and
computing is about, despite any technical knowledge you may have gained
in recent years. (that is the same as the remark you just made).

Your grasp of the overall paradigm... the bigger picture... is
tragically flawed by a gang boy retard mentality where you believe the
bullshit you hear at every gossip session you participate in. Folks would
rather hear the truth, not your bent brained opinion.

- by making the new computers that come out
have a new operating system, new software gets targeted for the new
platform, and so people are eventually forced to upgrade for
interoperability reasons, even when their old computers are capable of
doing the work desired.

Some idiot said that same thing about DOS as windows hit the fore. He
too was wrong, and imagine trying to get an accounting staff at a large
company to enter data into Lotus 123 on a DOS based computing machine.

Progress marches forward. You either keep up or fall behind. Sure,
there is an expense, but you either belly up to the bar and play with the
big boys, or you piss and moan all the time, and never really quite learn
what it is all about.

I am quite glad that my 4 year old system works with either new OS. I
piece together a new system every 4 years or so. This last one has SLI
and SATA, etc. That means that Ican keep a fast video card with GPU
processing capacity. Do you even know what SLI is?

I have about seven computers in storage, including my first 286. It
will not run anything modern either.

You either keep up, and go with the flow or you fall behind. Computers
are cheap. They used to be $5000 back when that was a LOT of money. Now,
they are pennies by comparison.

I am sorry that your McDonald's job does not allow you to save enough
to get a new computer every now and then. Or maybe you work in IT. If
that is the case, then it is pretty sad that companies are employing
idiots that learned about computers and programming and the like, but
lost all grasp of a modern, consumer based society, and what progress is
all about.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

the next release isn't going to put indexing in the directory
blocks?

/BAH

Where are they in a Reiser FS or other Linux journaling file system?