Description:
Stories & anecdotes about computers (some true!).
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Ping Charlie
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...I'm surprised you haven't gone over to alt.folklore.computers, where they love to talk of 1401s. (x-post added)
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DCA vs DEP
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...etc. You've reminded us all of an important historical point (Justifying the additional cross-post added above.) In the days of core stores, reading was destructive and so a single memory read cycle was actually read followed by write-back. This was why the autoincrement and ISZ write-backs did not increase the... more »
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Supercomputers Are Still Fast, but Less Super
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Supercomputers Are Still Fast, but Less Super [link] from above: The supercomputing world was long dominated by systems that required specialized chips, memory systems and networking technology. But about 10 years ago, researchers realized they could link thousands of cheaper... more »
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Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
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...about that period, we marketed ha/cmp for 1-800 against stratus. at the time stratus took down system for software maintenance (would have outage that precluded even five-nines). ha/cmp could have fall-over between multiple servers as part of maint. strategy ... limiting outage to few seconds. the response was that then stratus could install... more »
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Netherlands C= Show - Saturday, Dec. 19
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The last C= show of the year is upon us! It's the Netherlands Commodore Show on Saturday, December 19. As usual, the entrance is free! As usual, the location will be at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 until 16:00. As usual, there will be an Amiga scene, too, with a lot of Amiga computers present. As... more »
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Battle Blox - a "new" C128 80-column game
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Back in 2007 for the 4K Demo Compo, Battle Blox, an 80-column game for the Commodore 128 was entered into the competition. Well, that game is downloadable at <[link] BatlBlox.zip> As it says in its documentation, "Battle Blox is an arcade/strategy game similar to Tetris, except... more »
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Feasbility study, 50 years ago, unchanged?
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I was browsing bitsavers and found a 1957 report on how to do a feasibility study: [link] I took a glance at it, and IMHO, most of it would still apply today; only the references to specific machine types and word counts would... more »
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Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?
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...re: [link] Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? I had done the original of DCSS as part of generalized paged mapped filesystem for CMS. Only a very small read-only subset of that was shipped in vm370 release 3. Old email discussing migrating the changes from cp67 to vm370 (early release 3).... more »
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