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| From | "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | aus.computers, aus.cars |
| Subject | Re: This reminds me of someone.. |
| Date | 2017-01-23 00:29 +0000 |
| Organization | Barque.Org |
| Message-ID | <eel12tFlas0U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <eegmhhFjojsU1@mid.individual.net> <5883e6b0$0$1522$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <eeijrlF3k6jU1@mid.individual.net> <o62ujj$1942$1@gioia.aioe.org> <58853f36$0$11096$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
Clocky wrote: > > This is not in defense of Tom, but memory is much like dynamic RAM, > not refreshed often enough it starts to lose bits. Case in point was > when you explained that 486DX4 processor had a 4x multiplier > (4x25Mhz) when in fact the DX4 processors never had a 4x multiplier, > it was either 3x or 2x. > > My memory is clear on this, oft refreshed ;-) True enough and if I didn't then, I certainly acknowledge now that your memory was better and that a DX-4 multiplier was 3. A memory failure on my part. Now it is no secret that I have my problems with you. BUT, you have never, as far as I recall, ever attempted to defend lying tom's idiot arguments. Lying tom, of necessity, goes about his "business" differently to a normal person - he starts off knowing nothing, googles furiously and then attempts to present himself as a world class expert. Of course he always owns the books he quotes from - present estimation is that his library slightly exceeds in size the State Library of NSW. His other trick is when he cannot locate anything on point he will simply take a punt, quote reams and reams of the irrelevant information he does find and then at the bottom of it throw in a few lines pretending that he has conclusively "proved' whatever bullshit he was on about. Or invent an "instant friend" who he can quote saying whatever it was that lying tom needed. His current hobby-horse of the console error messages in Concurrent DOS is a good case in point. In an effort to shut him down I posted the console error messages (and their matching logfile hex codes) from DR-DOS, I also made the point that there were any number of links that showed the development history of C-DOS, culminating in its role as the server companion to DR-DOS and sharing as much commonality as possible. I had a quick look, but cannot find any copies of Concurrent DOS manuals, not too surprising really because as an operating system its time in the sun was very brief. Personal computers moved on to Windows (and just as an aside do you remember the tricks Microsoft pulled to try and stop people running early windows on top of DR-DOS?) and the business world moved to Novell Netware (where it bloody well stayed in a lot of cases, Centrelink was still using Netware up to 2000, and Customs were still using Netware when I last worked on their equipment in 2005 (and for all I know - still are). But of course that doesn't fit with lying tom's desires, so he found a copy of CP/M error codes and published those whilst claiming that CP/M, CP/M86, M/PM, DR-DOS and Concurrent DOS all had a common ancestry and therefore used the same error messages always. Yeah right...... All whilst completely ignoring the fact that Wang extensively modiifed Concurrent Dos, partially because some of the more powerful/late Wang PCs used a 16bit instruction pipe and Wang PC (early) had very different hardware to the "reference' IBM-PC which meant that the O/S needed to be modified to try and set up compatibility. one of the things that Wang did to their version of Concurrent DOS (and to their own moderately compatible DOS) was to try and trap direct hardware calls from software that had ben optimized for the IBM-PC and redirect it in a way that the Wang hardware understood. Eventually Wang got very good at this, but their early efforts were woeful (hence my comment of them being able to run 95% of any given peice of IBM-PC drafted software) and by the time they got good at it, the world had moved on, Wang was broke and to reinvent itself they shifted to making IBM-PC compatibles - a decision that must have really stuck in the throat of the founder of Wang who had an abiding hatred of all things IBM. But I digress, lying tom's argument distills to this - an EH holden is a car made by GMH, a commodore is also a car made by GMH - therefore the repair manual for an EH is perfectly valid for repairing Comodores. An argument so stupid that only a dedicated troll such as old lying tom would dare even raise it. I well remember many aspects of the Wang PC as they *never* delivered on what they were purchased to do (and the guy who signed off on the recomendation to buy them left the public service as was often seen in Canberra driving his shiny red Porsche). The Dept spent a lot of time concealing the extent of the disaster from the Senate and local managers made discretionary purchases of software to try and get some use out of the damm things. As I mentioned in an earlier post DEIR/DEET made soemthign of a speciality of jumping in with disasterous hardware purchases:- Convergent PCs lovely machine - utterly incompatible with IBM-PC, although you could buy a "compatibility card" which was essentially a v20 PC-compatible on a card. The Convergent PC used a 80186 processor and had wwhat was at the time about the best WYSIWYG wordprocessor - but there it stopped, promised software nver delivered, temrinal emulation cards incompatible with the (even then) ancient mainframe and worst of all the "power bricks' shit themselves with monotonous regularity - I had one Convergent PC in my office, it used 2 standard "power bricks", I kept 4 bricks notially in store which meant that at any given time I had a working machine, one brick in store and 3 with honeywell (or whoever the service contractor was) being repaired. Impact laser printers An Australian manufactured laser printer using the EX/RX Engine (same as Laserjet III). As patriotic as all fuck - a row of kangaroos used to jump their way across the single line LCD when booting up. What could go wrong? Well, the engines were pretty reliable and Impact knew that, so they set the controllers to generate an error at high copy counts to force a service - their argument being was that as the things were on contract this was not a sneaky way to increase charge-out, merely a means of ensuring that the printers received optimum maintainence. Problem was that Impact went broke no one had a full list of the codes to unlock the bloody things when they went into "I need a service mode". The codes varied accordign to the actual page count when triggered, a few ex-impact techs made a bit of a living for a while, and guarded th eknowledge closely, but they were all gone very quickly, usually when things like paper trays, feed rollers or paper pick ups needed to be replaced and there was no source of spares. Osborne Computers someone purchased the Osborne name and used it to punt a lne of PC-compats to governemnt agencies. Many people remain convicned to this day that Osborne was given the PC supply gig by DEIR because they agreed to uplift all the WANG PCs and arrange their secure destruction (government confidential don't you know) In reality many of the things appeared in 2nd had stores and auction houses - some caused some short lived scandal when jobseeker and student data was found to be on them, others of course were never taken out of their box until put on display for sale/auction. Anyway, Osborne went broke, and the PCs delivered were orphaned. The worst thing was that the majority of them were a low profile device where th emotherboard had a single extended ISA slot into which a riser card was plugged and which in turn provided a small number of slots into which modems, network cards etc could be plugged. Unfortunately the motherboard had a design fault (poorly specified capacitors if memory serves) and they all died fairly young deaths. all at great expense to the tax payer of course. anyway, enough from memory lane i have a motorcycle to service priro to the Asutralia Day ride later this week.
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Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-22 19:01 +1100
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Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 08:16 +0000
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Re: This reminds me of someone.. news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2017-01-22 04:51 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 15:24 +1000
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Re: This reminds me of someone.. keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-22 15:29 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-01-23 00:49 +0800
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 20:13 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-23 16:22 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-22 15:26 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 06:13 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-22 20:02 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 10:19 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2017-01-24 02:26 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-22 18:08 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 04:45 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-01-23 07:24 +0800
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-23 00:29 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-23 17:24 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 12:31 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-01-23 20:18 +0800
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-23 17:51 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 00:15 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 00:28 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-23 19:56 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 08:01 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 10:19 +1100
Might as well kick xeno's arse a bit more. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 22:25 +1000
Re: Might as well kick xeno's arse a bit more. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 13:34 +1100
Re: Might as well kick xeno's arse a bit more. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 13:00 +1000
Re: Might as well kick xeno's arse a bit more. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 15:22 +1100
Re: Might as well kick xeno's arse a bit more. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 19:37 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 09:14 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 10:30 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 23:20 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 08:44 +1100
Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 10:28 +0000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c*nt ever to infest a newsgroup felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-24 22:09 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c*nt ever to infest a newsgroup "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 11:24 +0000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c*nt ever to infest a newsgroup felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-24 23:45 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c*nt ever to infest a newsgroup "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 19:57 +0000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c*nt ever to infest a newsgroup felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 10:33 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 00:48 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 19:48 +0000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 07:52 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Noddy <me@home.com> - 2017-01-25 09:20 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 08:54 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Noddy <me@home.com> - 2017-01-25 11:47 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 13:05 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 12:58 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 15:20 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 13:00 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 12:57 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 15:15 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 19:39 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 19:55 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c*nt ever to infest a newsgroup felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 20:50 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 19:29 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 01:45 -0800
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 20:48 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 20:57 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 20:46 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 21:01 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 02:36 -0800
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 22:34 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-25 10:02 +0000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 21:45 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 20:56 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 22:12 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 03:23 -0800
Re: Grumpy conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 22:31 +1100
Re: Grumpy conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 03:42 -0800
Re: Grumpy conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 23:30 +1100
Re: Grumpy conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting c**t ever to infest a newsgroup[ felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 23:46 +1100
what a bunch of gossiping harpies keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-27 11:48 +1000
Re: what a bunch of gossiping harpies Noddy <me@home.com> - 2017-01-27 13:10 +1100
Re: what a bunch of gossiping harpies keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-27 13:40 +1000
Re: what a bunch of gossiping harpies Noddy <me@home.com> - 2017-01-27 15:49 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-27 11:43 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-27 14:09 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-27 13:41 +1000
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-27 14:48 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-27 16:09 +1100
Re: Xeno conclusively proved to be the lowest disgusting cunt ever to infest a newsgroup[ Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-27 17:17 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-01-24 07:42 +0800
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 12:36 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 10:34 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 23:23 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-25 00:21 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 12:49 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-25 17:49 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 18:40 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-25 23:12 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 23:53 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-26 14:27 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Noddy <me@home.com> - 2017-01-26 17:47 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-01-26 15:34 +0800
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-26 08:56 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-26 21:20 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-25 10:07 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-25 22:05 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-25 11:15 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-25 23:16 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Noddy <me@home.com> - 2017-01-26 00:57 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. XR8_Sprintless <xr8_sprint@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-24 14:48 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-24 15:34 +1000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-24 17:11 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-24 10:32 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-23 19:49 +0000
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-24 09:06 +1100
Re: This reminds me of someone.. Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2017-01-21 18:13 +0800
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