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#: 5097 S3/Languages
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11-Jul-90 22:28:43
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Sb: Kreider clib docs
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: All
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To All C programmers:
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I recently uploaded the complete docs for the Kreider Library in DL3. These
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docs, all 147 pages and 160K+ cover everything in the library. Also included is
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a new MROFF for printing, and a simple MAN utility for online viewing. Many
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programming examples are included to help those having trouble.
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Enjoy.
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Mark
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#: 5098 S10/Tandy CoCo
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11-Jul-90 23:38:25
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Sb: #5090-#Arc/Unarc Coco 3
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274 (X)
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Denise -
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Do you mean AR? If so, then the syntax is:
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ar -u arfilename file1 file2 file3 ...
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where the files to be archived (file1, file2, etc) are in the current data
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directory. So for example, to archive "/d1/clair.ume" to /d0, use:
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chd /d1
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ar -u /d0/clair clair.ume
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That'll place a file called "clair.ar" on /d0, with /d1/clair.ume inside.
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best - kev
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#: 5122 S10/Tandy CoCo
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12-Jul-90 18:12:00
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Sb: #5098-Arc/Unarc Coco 3
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Fm: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Thanks for the very good explanation. Huggs, Denise
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#: 5099 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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11-Jul-90 23:40:39
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Sb: #5070-#Reading OS9 directorys
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: George Hendrickson 71071,2003 (X)
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George - so basically you need to act sort of like a "dir e" program? Let me
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look around... there may be examples of this already in the libs.
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#: 5105 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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12-Jul-90 03:28:00
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Sb: #5099-#Reading OS9 directorys
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Fm: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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I found a program called 'EDIR.B09' that does a 'dir e' type thing. What I
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needed was some information explaining how that type of thing was done with
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examples. The way EDIR.B09 works is it uses Syscall and 'pipes' its info back
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and forth thru the program.
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#: 5110 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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12-Jul-90 08:54:55
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Sb: #5105-#Reading OS9 directorys
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: George Hendrickson 71071,2003 (X)
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Yah, I found EDIR also, but was unsure if you wanted to do things that way
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(it's okay of course, using pipes).
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Another method is to use Syscall and the SS.FD or SS.FDInf status calls to
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return the main file descriptor info on a file, which includes the attrs,
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dates, size, etc etc. Check in your Tech Manual in the RBF section, and you'll
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see what all is inside a File Descriptor sector.
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If pipes prove too slow, let me know. best - kev
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#: 5112 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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12-Jul-90 12:32:40
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Sb: #5110-Reading OS9 directorys
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Fm: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Yeah, the pipes are too slow. I was wanting something more direct. I will look
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into it with syscall. Thanks!
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George
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#: 5104 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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12-Jul-90 03:22:48
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Sb: #5092-Reading OS9 directorys
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Fm: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Thanks for the ok into it and see what I come up with....
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#: 5100 S2/Tutorials
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12-Jul-90 00:14:36
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Sb: #5058-#programmin in basic09
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Fm: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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James, thanks for your input...so basically, for a database file random access
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would be best since the records are of fixed length. However, if you are
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writing text, its easier to use sequential access files since the pointer is
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always pointed to the next new byte. Then printing it out, you would just put
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the pointer at the beginning and it will read through the file. With the
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random access, I can get any record I specify which is in an array. Did I get
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this right?? Thanks again..Dave.
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#: 5106 S2/Tutorials
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12-Jul-90 04:51:59
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Sb: #5100-#programmin in basic09
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721 (X)
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You got it right. Also, there are applications that always require grinding
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through the whole file that one might as well do sequentially, the primordial
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example being the archetypal COBOL payroll program. (Maybe the archetypal
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COBOL program, period. <grin>)
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#: 5114 S2/Tutorials
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12-Jul-90 16:16:19
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Sb: #5106-programmin in basic09
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Fm: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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James..gotcha...Dave PS. Thanks!!
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#: 5101 S2/Tutorials
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12-Jul-90 00:19:41
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Sb: #5083-#programmin in basic09
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Fm: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev, Thanks, you're always bailing me out of trouble!! Remember the guy who
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fried his system trying to get tthe irq interrupt fix done...yup, thats me<sly
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grin>. Anyway, thank you, cause I'm now up and running at 2400 on Wizpro with
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Sterm included. Um...back to the files...I think I've got the idea...if
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possible see what I replied to James Jones. Did I get the drift?? Thanks
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much!!! Dave
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#: 5102 S2/Tutorials
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12-Jul-90 02:04:35
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Sb: #5101-#programmin in basic09
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721 (X)
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Dave, looks to me like you know what you're talking about, yup.
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Glad to hear you and Wizpro are working together!
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#: 5113 S2/Tutorials
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12-Jul-90 16:13:52
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Sb: #5102-programmin in basic09
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Fm: DAVID DE FEO 71630,721
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev...thanks...Dave
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#: 5103 S10/Tandy CoCo
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12-Jul-90 02:35:25
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Sb: #5084-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Pete,
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Yes, more and more that sounds like the way to go. Too make it really
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bullet proof I think the program will have to have the ability to recover from
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a crash and carry on as if nothing happened,( other than noteing and keeping on
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file the time(s) that the computer had to reboot).
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Have you given any thought about putting your GIMIX too work in a strickly
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home control situation. I remember you played around with those power control
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modules a while ago.
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I have been following the articles on the CEBus(EIA Home Automation
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Standard), that have been appearing in Circuit Cellar Ink, and I am really
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excited about the possibilities that this standard will bring about. I think
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Microware should be trying to get OS9(k) embedded into this system, talk about
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making OS9 a household word.
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Larry
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#: 5109 S10/Tandy CoCo
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12-Jul-90 08:51:54
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Sb: #5103-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)
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I wished I'd saved the article, but apparently Philips, Sony, and a bunch of
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others have agreed to work on a home control standard... and I don't think it's
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CEBus-based. If I can find the text again, I'll post it.
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#: 5135 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 01:49:21
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Sb: #5109-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin, That article would be interesting. Were they talking about more or
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less about making a standard IR control for all the TV,VCR,STEREO and things
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like that or did it also control mundane things like coffee pot,
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microwave,toaster which if it is implemented the CEBus could control.
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#: 5143 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 06:29:25
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Sb: #5135-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)
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Larry, I just looked... I musta deleted the file. If I recall correctly, they
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were going after everything down to toasters and fridges, yah. I think they
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were going to come up with something pretty quickly, too... like by the end of
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this year. Which means they probably have been working on it for some time now.
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Seems like the article said that a whole slew of Japanese companies had signed
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up, also.
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#: 5155 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 13:37:12
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Sb: #5143-Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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The EIA (CEBus) standard is also supposed to be finalized by the end of
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the year also. Veerryy inntteerreessttiinngg
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Oh oh ... a laugh-in flash back
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Larry
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12-Jul-90 09:13:17
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Sb: #5103-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)
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Larry -
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The GIMIX was involved in home control,although it was with the X10 Powerhouse
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(IBM/Serial version).
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I'm not familiar with the CEBUS - care to give me some references?
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Pete
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#: 5136 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 02:18:46
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Sb: #5111-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Pete,
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One place to get the latest info would be:
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EIA CEBus Proposed Specification
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EIA Standards Sales Dept.
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1722 Eye St. NW
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Washington, DC 20006
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For someone with money burning a hole in their pocket or can somehow write
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the cost off, there is a INSTALLER'S GUIDE to CEBus HOME AUTOMATION ,put out
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by Parks Associates.
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Excerpts from their ad:
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This manual provides detailed instruction on the backbone wiring that
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will interconnect the electronic home of the 90s.
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Emphasizes CEBus and its application for sercurity, entertainment, lighting,
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telecommunications, and energy management. Designed for on-site use, with
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clear, easy-to-use instructions, including graphics and diagrams. Written by
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Diablo Research, it reveals "insider" information on how to wire for current
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and future automation products and services.
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This is available for $149.00 from Parks Associates.
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They only have a number to call to place an order for the manual.
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(214)369-5581 of fax (214)369-5582
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It looks like this would be a must have for anyone in the process of
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building a house and would like to WIRE the house as it is being built.
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If you can get ahold of the August/September 1989 issue of CIRCUIT CELLAR
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INK (issue #10), there is a good article on the CEBus, also issue #15 JUNE/JULY
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1990 gives more info plus some changes that have been made in the proposed
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standard.
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Larry
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13-Jul-90 09:44:28
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Sb: #5136-#Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)
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Larry -
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Thanks for the information. I'll start by digging out those old Byte magazines.
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Pete
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#: 5156 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 13:52:27
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Sb: #5148-Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Pete,
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Circuit Cellar Ink is not associated with Byte magazine. Steve Ciarcia left
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Byte and started his own magazine. Appearently I wasn't the only one that
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didn't like the direction Byte was going.
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The first issue of Circuit Cellar Ink came out in January 1988 and from my
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view it gets better with eack issue. If you enjoyed Steve's articles in Byte,
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then you would love this magazine.
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The magazine is bi-monthly,$14.95 per year
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Circuit Cellar Ink
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P.O. box 3050-C
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Southeastern, PA 19398
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or (215) 630-1914
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There is also a Circuit Cellar BBS
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(203) 871-1988 24hrs.,300/1200/2400, 8bits, no parity, 1 stop bit
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Larry
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13-Jul-90 19:57:59
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Sb: #5148-Dedicated CoCo3
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Fm: Shawn Thomas 76226,3237
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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Pete- I just this morning saw a news article on my local station on CEBus.
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(San Francisco, KRON-TV) There is a test house just outside of the city that
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is completely CEBus driven. All house current, door and window locks, the
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whole shabang. Was very interesting. Everything was controlled from a simple
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little remote, with a system console in a little nook in the kitchen. It was
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very impresive.
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Shawn
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#: 5108 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 07:53:45
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Sb: #5091-Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Colin Smith 73777,1360
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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So, I could take a piece of BASIC-09 code and just type it in in Microware
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BASIC? Great! I had fears of MS-DOS BASIC in my new computer!!
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--Colin
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12-Jul-90 17:05:08
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Sb: #5065-#Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Colin Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Colin,
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Talk to Kev and Mike Guzzi about that comparison. It's very interesting. I
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suspect that, the way MM/1 code is shaping up, that Basic will still be an
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excellent choice for quick work.
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Paul
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#: 5126 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 20:15:15
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Sb: #5120-Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Jim Williams 72157,3524
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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If Rexx isn't available <ducking> --Eet--
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(btw, is there an OS/9-OSK equivalent of TAPCIS/Navigator/Whap! ?)
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Director of Mayhem
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Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.
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#: 5121 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 17:09:16
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Sb: #5068-#Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)
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Mark,
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What is your complaint against runb, and how does your opinion on this mesh
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with CIO -- it is a runtime module of sorts, too.
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Paul
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#: 5151 S15/Hot Topics
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13-Jul-90 10:03:54
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Sb: #5121-#Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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Paul,
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We generally *do* have cio loaded (I think the MW shell uses it!). We
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generally do *not* link with -i (to use cio) except for occasional use
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utilities. For more than one copy of a program, it uses more memory than having
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the cio stuff linked in because it grabs so much memory itself. The key is, I
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am not required to have either cio or math to write programs in "C". I am
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required to have runb to even use someone else's programs in Basic. If *I* do
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not have Basic, then I do not have runb, and I cannot run programs written in
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MW Basic. cio and math come with all versions of os9 that I know of.
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In general, cio saves about (I didn't check this, just memory) 12k of text
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space and uses about 8k more data space. With one copy of a program running, it
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saves about 4k of memory. With two copies, it costs 4k, then 8k per copy. I've
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never checked math.
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I guess the point is that programs written in "C" are much easier to run
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since you do not need to buy "C" to run programs written in it.
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Mark
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13-Jul-90 16:43:13
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Sb: #5151-Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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Mark - that's a very good point (that RunB isn't included as standard on all
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OS9 systems). Seems like MW oughta include all runtime modules.
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12-Jul-90 16:29:43
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Sb: #5080-#Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)
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Rexx is worth looking into for the IPC element, naturally!
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We're negotiating now with TWO top Amiga authoring companies whose products
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don't really overlap.
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No, haven't gotten a chance to get ahold of Mr. Hawes. I'll take a moment now
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and write him a note. Thx for the reminder!
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Say, Jim, you wanted an Amiga OSK port, right? I'd like to know which Amiga
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you're using, and what size hard drive to make sure you get a system that boots
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up with nary a catch.
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thx.
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Paul Ward
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#: 5123 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 19:36:41
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Sb: #5115-Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Jim Williams 72157,3524
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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You bet I want an Amiga OSK port! I've got an Amiga 2000 (4.2 revision
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motherboard, if that means anything to anybody <shrug>), 3 meg, the 1 meg Agnus
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graphics chip, and a 65 meg SCSI harddrive. (2 of the 3 meg are on a Supra
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memory expansion card, the HD controller is called an Overdrive by Pacific
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peripherals). It's a pretty standard system, about equivalent to the A2000HD,
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except my drive is 65 meg and the stock one is 40 meg. Think it'll work? <grin>
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btw, was talking to Kevin last night.... read this month's computer shopper...
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page 420. Nuff said :) --Eet--
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Director of Mayhem
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Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.
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#: 5119 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 17:03:15
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Sb: #5078-#Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)
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Let's not even mention ANY commodore basic in the same paragraph as Basic09 or
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OSK/Basic.
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Paul
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#: 5125 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 19:37:02
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Sb: #5119-#Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: Jim Williams 72157,3524
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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Hmph... Okay <grin>... Can I mention AmigaBASIC in the same paragraph with
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BASIC09 or OSK/BASIC? <grin>... no, it's not by CBM... it's by Microsoft (and
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it's powerful, but a b*tch to use) --Eet--
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Director of Mayhem
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Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.
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#: 5130 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 21:10:27
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Sb: #5125-Is Basic out of date?
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)
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It's not re-entrant, either. <grin>
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12-Jul-90 16:31:14
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Sb: #5082-#Special! QUICK!
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)
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Sorry, the developer's kits are already discounted 25%, and any profit margin
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is eaten up with the support costs and the hand assembly time.
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The $50 deal applies only the the mass manufactured systems.
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Drop me email and ask about leasing.
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Paul
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#: 5124 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-90 19:36:53
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Sb: #5116-Special! QUICK!
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Fm: Jim Williams 72157,3524
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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'sokay, I was only curious.. I didn't see _how_ you could offer that to
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developers in addition to the 25% off. Will email you about leasing info.
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Thanks. --Eet--
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Director of Mayhem
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Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.
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#: 5117 S10/Tandy CoCo
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12-Jul-90 16:33:08
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Sb: #5094-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Mark S 76004,373 (X)
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Mark,
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So, what alternatives do you suggest?
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This might require a real, honest-to-gott phone call, you know! <grin>
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Paul
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#: 5129 S10/Tandy CoCo
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12-Jul-90 21:00:03
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Sb: #5117-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Mark S 76004,373
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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The only alternative is to design a new Hardware leve interface in the same
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kind of manner that CD-I has. Of course with Orange Book standard about to
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emerge from Philips there realy is very little choice. In fact Sony Is already
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in design of there new CD-ROM DSP to solve most of there problems, bout you
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wont be able to use a SCSI interface to talk to it. The more you learn the more
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you find out what you don't know.
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#: 5139 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 06:06:19
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Sb: #5129-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Mark S 76004,373 (X)
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Orange Book? What's that one gonna be for?? thx - kev
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#: 5146 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 07:35:33
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Sb: #5139-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Mark S 76004,373
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Real time video decompresion, interlaces audio/video compressed format I may
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have some special roughting file capability to declare DSP/Nurel-net tasks. I
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have some reference documents but no spec yet. It may also be processor
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independant.
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#: 5158 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 16:40:09
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Sb: #5146-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Mark S 76004,373 (X)
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Thanks. So the Orange Book spec would be for the consumer version of CD-I? Or
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is it more general purpose than that?
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#: 5163 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 19:31:59
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Sb: #5158-SCSI drives
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Fm: Mark S 76004,373
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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Its realy the next level after green book. CD-I is the consumer version. The
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only real problem with CD-I is it is so late that there are other hardware
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option avalable now so a superior product can be built at a lower hardware
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cost. If it had come out in 87 it would be a different story. But technology
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marches on. How are the Cats these days.
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13-Jul-90 01:44:49
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Sb: #4948-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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I've just gotten some more info on SASI, etc. and I was correct in my last
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message--the guy I talked to didn't know what he was talking about. Guess
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that's what happens when you get to immersed in the MS-DOS world....
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Speaking of SASI, what other kind of devices are around for this "bus"? I know
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there are hard drives, CD rom and tape backup. Anything else? \ex post
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#: 5141 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 06:11:03
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Sb: #5134-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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Hmmm. Good Q. Well, I know of someone working on a SCSI-based video digitizer
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(I should check up on his progress - thx for reminder). He figures that way it
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can be used on almost any computer out there. Pretty smart idea.
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And I'm not positive, but I think I read of scsi-bus floppy drives before...
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tho I don't recall where and haven't seen any real mention since.
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Perhaps someone else here knows of more scsi based devices! Hackers (thanks to
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Steve Ciarcia, ex of BYTE mag) are starting to make their stuff hook to scsi
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these days, for instance... because its an open port and available on the
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several computers they might have.
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#: 5150 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 09:53:41
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Sb: #5141-#SCSI drives
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev -
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For whatever it's worth, I just got done integrating some systems for the Air
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Force, and the OCR's, scanners, and hi-res (4096 x 4096 x 12) digitizers we
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selected either use the serial port or a GPIB (IEEE-488) interface. Haven't
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stumbled across too many SCSI's.
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Pete
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#: 5159 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 16:40:56
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Sb: #5150-SCSI drives
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Thanks Pete! That makes sense to me!
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#: 5118 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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12-Jul-90 16:50:39
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Sb: #5022-TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Steve Kincade 70065,1124
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Steve,
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If you're using OSK and we haven't had a chance to talk, I'd love it if you
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could zot me an email note.
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Thanks!
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Paul
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12-Jul-90 22:04:46
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Sb: #GUI
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Fm: Frank Hogg 70310,317
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To: 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev, I'm working on QnA #2 and one of the questions that came up was memory
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usage. My question is how much memory the GUI requires, ie: min and max etc
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etc.
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thanks frank
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13-Jul-90 06:22:13
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Sb: #5132-#GUI
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Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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To: Frank Hogg 70310,317
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Oh gracious. Hmmmm. The driver is just under 8K at the moment. Each device
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takes 512 bytes of static storage. In the final version, I estimate the driver
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to expand out to maybe 15K+. About the size of the coco code. The actual window
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manager will add on some, but not much.
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So the program code is nothing compared to the memory required for video
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itself. A minimum screen is over 64K. An interlaced screen can run up to maybe
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140K <? scratching head>. So your absolute best case is 15 screens out of the
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1-meg video RAM. Not so bad... I doubt most people have more than a half-dozen
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open on their coco, at max.
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That about cover things?
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13-Jul-90 17:45:04
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Sb: #5142-GUI
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Fm: Jim Williams 72157,3524
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To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
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Kevin, how about emailing me a screen shot, huh? I'd love to see your progress
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thus far :) --Eet--
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Director of Mayhem
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Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.
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#: 5133 S6/Applications
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13-Jul-90 01:44:23
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Sb: #4886-Speller
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Wendell Benedetti 72766,2605 (X)
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Wendell,
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Thanks for mailing your version of spell. I've had a quick look at it and it
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seems that someone did indeed make similar changes to the program to mine. I
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suppose that I could gloat a bit and say that mine are more "legal C", but that
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isn't the point. However, I see that they have used a quick-word dictionary,
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similiar to what I did in DICT. I added this to my version of spell at one
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point and found that it made very little difference in the speed. Which makes
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sense, since the entire dictionary is scanned anyway. I also see that they are
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using the index. I've not had time to have a good look at all the code, but I
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will later. I guess that I could do the timings myself, but what kind of
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difference have you found between this version and my hack?
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13-Jul-90 02:29:20
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Sb: Update on the OSKer
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Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
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To: all
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The first issue of the OSKer was completed (layout) on Tuesday, and mailing
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will start Friday (when I get it back from the printer). We are about 4 days
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behind schedule, but hey, it's the first issue, and I know everyone will enjoy
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it. There are 1000 being printed, and we haven't yet received quite that many
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requests for it (first issue is free), so if you are interested, see the file
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in area #15 for info on obtaining it. Of course, this is only good until the
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supply runs out!
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Issues should start showing up in your mail next week, depending on how far
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away you are, and how fast the mail decides to get it there (1st class).
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StG
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#: 5140 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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13-Jul-90 06:09:46
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Sb: #TOP7.T - rip
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Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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To: Mike Ward 76703,2013 (X)
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Hi Mike!
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Re-uploaded top7.t this morning.
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Ed
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#: 5147 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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13-Jul-90 08:08:36
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Sb: #5140-TOP7.T - rip
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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Ed,
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I downloaded a copy to my system prior to pushing the button. Should we have
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more problems with this file, there will be no need to trouble you to
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re-upload.
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Thanks for the extra effort!
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Steve
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13-Jul-90 10:16:56
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Sb: #5140-TOP7.T - rip
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Fm: Mike Ward 76703,2013
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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Thanks for the extra effort Ed, it's muchly appreciated!
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#: 5162 S10/Tandy CoCo
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13-Jul-90 18:31:18
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Sb: Memory Size Testing
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Fm: DENNIS SKALA 73177,2365
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To: 76703,4227
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Kev,
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How can a program (specifically, a device driver) tell how much memory a Coco 3
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has? Now I infer from your book that block #0 direct page $A3 is intended to
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distinguish between a 128K and a 512K machine. But what about the Disto memory
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upgrade? Have you hacked cc3go (or whatever) to code the existance of 1 Meg
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memory into low memory? What about Chris Burke's 256K machines? Do you know
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if he flagged that into low memory?
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***** Dennis *****
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