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04/09/92,21:45:43,226421,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#45578,
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E#45579,14
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04/09/92,22:08:59,226422,2,KEITH MCCREADY,,12
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04/10/92,00:48:23,226423,2,MIKE REINHART,,4
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04/10/92,07:35:43,226424,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,1
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04/10/92,10:38:42,226425,2,ALEX ZELL,,
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04/10/92,13:53:15,226426,2,KEN STOX,,1
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04/10/92,15:57:32,226427,2,JIM COMAN,Barrington/ IL,6
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04/10/92,20:11:40,226428,2,AL HIGGINS,,
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E#45580,10
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04/10/92,20:37:51,226429,2,BILL MATTSON,,
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E#45581,15
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04/10/92,23:28:01,226430,3,JIM COLLING,,7
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04/11/92,05:27:50,226431,9,NORB NDEMBINSKI,,7
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04/11/92,05:39:28,226432,2,JERRY OLSEN,,17
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04/11/92,07:54:51,226433,3,ANN PELZ,,1
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04/11/92,11:56:43,226434,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,3
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04/11/92,12:14:50,226435,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1
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04/11/92,12:41:40,226436,2,AL HIGGINS,,
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E#45582,7
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04/11/92,13:19:54,226437,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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45578 04/09/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BILL MATTSON: "R/POWERMETER PROGRAM"
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45579 04/09/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "COMDEX"
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45580 04/10/92 AL HIGGINS => WARD: "DESKJET COLOR CARTRIDGES"
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45581 04/10/92 BILL MATTSON => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/POWERMETER PROGRAM"
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45582 04/11/92 AL HIGGINS => BILL MATTSON: "R/POWERMETER PROGRAM"
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 45578 is 08 line(s) on 04/09/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to BILL MATTSON re: R/POWERMETER PROGRAM
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The version of SI that you have IS important. However, there is no such
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thing as "SI may not recognise cache outside of the chip." Cache is just
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there, and works. If SI is executing instructions and determining your
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machine speed from that execution, it "must" use the cache. While I'd
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love to know that 51 is what you get from a 64K cache, and that because
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I have 256K, I get 72, I think more likely we are just a few % apart,
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because cache has a diminishing returns role as it goes from 8K to 64K
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to 128 to 256.
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Msg 45579 is 29 line(s) on 04/09/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ALL re: COMDEX
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Well, just got back from 4 busy days @ Comdex.
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I had volunteered my time AMs at the IBM booth, and wound up spending
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most of the day - in the OS/2 2.0 "Test Drive" area. The response was
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generally very favorable. OS/2 was "quite robust" which doesn't mean
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we didn't ever have to reboot - but more that people were "unconsciously
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abusing it" by opening up things, then minimizing them (not CLOSING them).
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Thus it was not uncommon for me to walk up after someone and find 27 things
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opened (well, more like 16 ;-)
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Toshiba's little $8000 486 color laptop was the "machine of choice".
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I got a chance to REALLY type on IBM's new laptop - I was surprised, and
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haven't decided yet: IBM moved the keyboard a bit further "up" in the
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machine. I found thus I couldn't rest my palm on the table and reach the
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home row comfortably. Instead sort of the "front of my wrist" rested on
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the edge of the computer. I haven't decided if I like that or not.
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Karpal Tunnel syndrom comes from having the wrist too low, I think so
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perhaps IBM has it right... it is only because the front of my Toshiba
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is so thin that I can readily use it with palms on the table.
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I talked to Intel about replacing a 486 with the DX/2, and they said it
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wouldn't be offered to end-users. One thing (I'd not thought of) is that
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apparently BIOSes have timing loop - and he said just replacing the chip
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won't work. (I don't remember if he said "won't usually" or "won't always"
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or what).
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Windows was "real big" - didn't see anything particularly that pulled
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my chain, EXCEPT, "Fractal" software's painter. It does an OUTSTANDING
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job of doing thing like "water color" with either painted or scanned
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images. It has charcoal drawing, textured paper, friskit (sp?), etc. The
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air-brush was VERY nice. It was demoed with a Wacom tablet, that has the
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3rd axis - i.e. pressure sensitive. This makes it a darned good drawing
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tool! Even hand-written text was quite good. I think I'll get it.
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Msg 45580 is 11 line(s) on 04/10/92 from AL HIGGINS
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to WARD re: DESKJET COLOR CARTRIDGES
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Now that I've had the 500C for several months, I have several empty
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cartridges.... I've been reading where there are services that
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refill them, or you can purchase a kit (blue or black) and re fill them
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yourself... I was wondering if you or anyone else has tried refilling
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the cartridge, or have had them refilled??? As for myself, I would like
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to find some other colors other than black and blue, like RED or Green, or
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maybe an Orange. We use soem of the color toner cartridges at work and
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they work great... However, they do not do the little HP jet cartridges.
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No demand I'm told!!!! Any information you or other have would
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be helpfull on this subject!
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Thanks -
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Msg 45581 is 10 line(s) on 04/10/92 from BILL MATTSON
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/POWERMETER PROGRAM
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Yeh, I remember reading about the return on increasing cache...some
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estimates have it at 3% for going from 64K to 128K. That's why I
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suspect my SI is the culprit. It's dated 1987!!! Also, most other tests
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I've run show 2- to 4-fold improvements. Oh well! This is the cross a
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speed freak must bear, I guess. I would really like to see a broad
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set of "benchmark" test programs assembled, and then run and cataloged
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amoung all of us "BBS'rs", but no one else seems to be adding any
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comments to ours. It might be of use to those considering a new machine,
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or trying to identify a "best" configuration for their own system to
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be able to have a body of data to compare to. Any thoughts? Regards...
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Msg 45582 is 11 line(s) on 04/11/92 from AL HIGGINS
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to BILL MATTSON re: R/POWERMETER PROGRAM
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During the past several months, our OEM group at work as run benchmarks
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against the systems were are currently selling, and some of the new
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system platforms we plan on selling in the future... They used several
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commercial sw packages ie norton, PC Tools, Checkit, to name a few.
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They also looked at how long it took to perform print a series of
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graphical reports using Excell and PM. The results were intresting,
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but to complex to quote back to you gentlemen here. I will see if
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I still have a copy and see what they did in detail.
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The one thing I DO remember, there were some major desparities about
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the results with the commercially available software. Will let you know!
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Reguards -
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No dup. chars.
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>Function:?
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