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This reminds me of someone..

Started byGrumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com>
First post2017-01-21 18:19 +1000
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  This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 18:19 +1000
    Re: This reminds me of someone.. D Walford <dwalford@internode.on.net> - 2017-01-21 19:30 +1100
      Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-21 09:04 +0000
        Re: This reminds me of someone.. Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 19:36 +1000
        Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-21 20:56 +1100
        Re: This reminds me of someone.. keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-01-21 20:34 +1000
          Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-21 11:05 +0000
        Re: This reminds me of someone.. D Walford <dwalford@internode.on.net> - 2017-01-22 09:54 +1100
          Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 02:31 +0000
            Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-22 14:01 +1100
              Re: This reminds me of someone.. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-22 14:19 +1100
                Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 03:38 +0000
                Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-22 17:41 +1100
                  Re: This reminds me of someone.. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-22 18:07 +1100
                    Re: This reminds me of someone.. F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-22 19:01 +1100
                      Re: This reminds me of someone.. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-22 19:17 +1100
                        Re: This reminds me of someone.. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-22 19:18 +1100
                          Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-22 20:23 +1100
                            Re: This reminds me of someone.. felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-22 22:42 +1100
                    Re: This reminds me of someone.. "Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org> - 2017-01-22 08:16 +0000
                      Re: This reminds me of someone.. Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-01-22 23:25 +1100
            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
                Re: This reminds me of someone.. news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2017-01-24 02:38 +0000
              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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#57457

FromXeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au>
Date2017-01-22 23:25 +1100
Message-ID<o6288e$2eb$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57448
On 22/01/2017 7:16 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:
 > felix wrote:
 >
 >>
 >> yes, I remember those error messages. thank goodness we've moved well
 >> away from DOS to the GUI . my first recollection of anything better
 >> than DOS was something called DOSSHELL. or as it was known at the
 >> time.. DOSHELL, lol
 >
 >
 > Ah fetid, your master lying tom is up to his old tricks again.....
 >>
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Here are some Concurrent CP/M 86 error messages
 >>>
 >>> 01H - Disk  I/O Error  — Permanent Error
 >>> 02H -  R/0  —  Read/Only  Disk
 >>> 04H - Select — Drive  Select Error
 >>> 09H - Illegal ? in FCB
 >>>
 >>> How odd, looks a lot like 2 Hex Byte error codes to me.
 >>>
 >
 > You know what Fetid / lying tom - they look just like Hex codes to me
 > too.
 >
 >
 > Pity they are for CP/M and not Concurrent Dos though isn't it....
 >
Spent a lot more time with CP/M than with CP/M 86 but the concepts are 
very much the same.
 >
 > Nice try lying Tom but you be putting those goal posts right back
 > where you found them.
 >
They are where you moved them with your bullshit story. I have yet to 
touch them. No need, as you will soon see.
 >
 >
 > And just to rub the point in - here are the log codes for PC/MD-DOS.
 >
 > Got fuck nithing to do wiiththe console error reporting which was of
 > course in English words.
 >
 >
 > Sit and spin lying tom.
 >
Maybe you should. That's because you are the liar here.


Speaking of *console error reporting* which, as you say, is in English 
words, I have a little more to say on that score.

The problem for you however is that the English words, the error 
message(s), are not the words that you have intimated they are.

As a reminder, they are these; *general failure reading hard drive*

 > Concurrent CP/M-86™ Operating System User's Guide
 >
 >                 Appendixes
 >
 > A Concurrent CP/M-86 Error Messages . . . . . . . . 153
 >
 > Concurrent CP/M-86 Error Messages
 > Error messages come from several different sources. Concurrent
 > CP/M-86 displays error messages generated by mistakes in command
 > lines. Some errors emerge from individual utilities, such as the
 > errors associated with SYSDISK. Diskette and file errors come from
 > the BOOS module. Other errors come from the XIOS module. You can
 > also intercept errors from applications programs you are running.
 > Table A-l displays the BDOS error messages.
 > Table A-2 lists XIOS error messages.
 > Table A-3 shows command line errors.
 >
 > BDOS error messages are displayed in the following format:
 >
 > Bdos Err on d: Message Function NNN File: FILENAME.TYP
 > "d" indicates the drive involved;
 > "message" indicates the appropriate error message;
 > NNN indicates the number of the BDOS function involved,
 > FILENAME.TYP indicates the file involved.

A typical BDOS error message with drive reads;

 > Bad Sector
 > This error occurs when there is an actual hardware error on the
 > diskette. It can occur as a result of trying to read a diskette
 > of one density in a drive set to a different density. This error
 > also occurs with an improperly inserted floppy diskette.
 >
 > Disk Errors
 > There are seven kinds of disk errors reported from the XIOS.
 > All use the same format.
 > Disk error Accept,Retry,Ignore,Details?
 > If you type D this detail list appears:
 > d: Track nn Sector nn Side n <error report> A/R/I/D?
 > where d: is the drive number,
 > Track nn is the track number,
 > Sector nn is the sector number,
 > <error report> is one of these six words or phrases:
 > write, read, CRC, DMA not found, write protect, no address mark.
 >

There's a whole lot more but I think you will get the drift. I could 
post the entire manual here but that would be pointless. A search 
through the manual reveals your string, *general failure reading hard 
drive*, or the relevant bits of it at least, are not present in the 
document.
You will note that the term *hard drive* is not used. In fact, the drive 
is referenced by a drive designator, in this case a number, and would 
give no indication to the user whether the drive in question was a 
floppy or a hard disk. There is also no such an animal as a *general 
failure* since all errors give the same info - Disk Error. The users 
would not know whether the error was a read or a write error unless they 
had the nous to press the *d* for details and get the expanded info that 
gives rather more explicit information - which would still leave the 
average end user in the dark.

Oh, and in case you are thinking of saying that Concurrent CP/M 86 does 
not relate to Concurrent PC-DOS, then think again. The only difference 
between the two is that Concurrent PC-DOS has an MS DOS compatibility 
module added - for obvious reasons - the disk formats are different for 
one. The error codes in both are identical and the manual I have serves 
for both.

All I can say to you is;

Stupid, useless, self-aggrandising, loathsome toad that you are!

Your own words (spelling corrected) back at you!

Now, go over there ------>   with Noddy and try to do a little more 
*research* before you put your bullshit stories *out there*. Yours 
aren't quite as bad as his - yet - but I expect they soon will, if this 
recent example is any guide.

Make them a little more credible, if nothing else. I mean, Noddy's radar 
cop and the 180 on the *divided freeway* was absolute classic, bullshit 
at its very best, and you'll have to work a lot harder to best that one. 
Nice to see you are trying.

BTW, want to borrow my Concurrent CP/M 86 manuals? It's a three volume 
set. You'll need them if you want to spin more bullshit about Concurrent 
CP/M 86 or Concurrent PC-DOS.



-- 

Xeno

First they ignore you,
Then they ridicule you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

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#57434

Fromnews16 <news16@woa.com.au>
Date2017-01-22 04:51 +0000
Message-ID<o61dpe$k2j$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57427
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:


> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.

Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was 8086/8088 
based.

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#57435

FromGrumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com>
Date2017-01-22 15:24 +1000
Message-ID<o61fn5$127u$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#57434
On 22/01/2017 2:51 PM, news16 wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:
>
>
>> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
>> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
>> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
>> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
>> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>
> Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was 8086/8088
> based.
>
Uh No....

http://landley.net/history/mirror/cpm/history.html

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#57483

Fromnews16 <news16@woa.com.au>
Date2017-01-24 02:38 +0000
Message-ID<o66en8$d73$5@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57435
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:24:58 +1000, Grumpy Tech wrote:

> On 22/01/2017 2:51 PM, news16 wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing
>>> that Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once
>>> digital research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as
>>> compatible as possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication
>>> MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking
>>> intention behind it.
>>
>> Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was
>> 8086/8088 based.
>>
> Uh No....
> 
> http://landley.net/history/mirror/cpm/history.html

Oh, okay, I've only ever used CP/M on Z80 machince. Anything else was 
mini-iron; Dec, HP, Sun, etc.

Sadly, all three of the Z80s were ditched one we purchased a 286. The two 
Portapak luggables were fantastic machines(mother board decay), but the 
POS M/CP/M hert strain was perenially breaking down and I was tired 
giving it free trips across sydny to the onl guy who could repair it.

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#57437

Fromkeithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Date2017-01-22 15:29 +1000
Message-ID<eeiu9jF5nqlU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57434
On 1/22/2017 2:51 PM, news16 wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:
>
>
>> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
>> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
>> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
>> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
>> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>
> Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was 8086/8088
> based.
>
There was CP/M86 that ran om PCs, but it was too little too late for DR.

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#57458

FromClocky <notgonn@happen.com>
Date2017-01-23 00:49 +0800
Message-ID<5884e286$0$1523$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>
In reply to#57437
On 22/01/2017 1:29 PM, keithr0 wrote:
> On 1/22/2017 2:51 PM, news16 wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
>>> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
>>> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
>>> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
>>> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>>
>> Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was 8086/8088
>> based.
>>
> There was CP/M86 that ran om PCs, but it was too little too late for DR.

CP/M86 was pretty much DOA. CP/M was very much a Z80/8080 OS.

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#57460

From"Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org>
Date2017-01-22 20:13 +0000
Message-ID<eeki3cFhst8U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57458
Clocky wrote:

> On 22/01/2017 1:29 PM, keithr0 wrote:
> > On 1/22/2017 2:51 PM, news16 wrote:
> > > On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a
> > > > thing that Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM)
> > > > and once digital research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written
> > > > to be as compatible as possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary
> > > > implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as was possible given the multi
> > > > user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
> > > 
> > > Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was
> > > 8086/8088 based.
> > > 
> > There was CP/M86 that ran om PCs, but it was too little too late
> > for DR.
> 
> CP/M86 was pretty much DOA. CP/M was very much a Z80/8080 OS.


You are correct but much of the code base went on to re-appear in
DR-DOS and of course concurrent DOS.


Albeit in much, much modified form.

The attraction was that unlike MS/PC-DOS CP/M always included the
concept of multi user and MP/M and concurrent DOS expanded that, MP/M
firmed up the multi user and had vestigal Multi tasking, Concurrent DOS
had a far, far better system of locks and flags to allow reasonably
reliable multitasking providing the application software played ball
(which was the major problem with what DEIR ended up with - some
software worked very well, but if one person accessed the "wrong" piece
of of software then the whle lot crashed.  The "network" consisted of
nothing more complicated than serial consoles.




The resident village idiot, lying tom, was trying to "prove" me lying
yesterday by quoting from the CP/M manual it found online and claiming
it was no different to concurrent DOS (and for that matter Concurrent
DOS reworked by Wang).


About as relevant as pulling out a workshop manual for an EH and
arguing that the specifications are the same for the current commodore.


But no matter, we all know what lying tom is like, the graceless
creature is incapable of ever admitting it is wrong and when it runs
out of any form of semi-rational argument it will simply uproot the
goal posts and publish reams and reams of irrelevant dreck and claim
that it "proves" something (which i am prepared to bet it has done by
now and if it hasnt it will to so today).

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#57466

FromXeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au>
Date2017-01-23 16:22 +1100
Message-ID<o643sc$cqk$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57460
On 23/01/2017 7:13 AM, Blue Peeler wrote:
> Clocky wrote:
>
>> On 22/01/2017 1:29 PM, keithr0 wrote:
>>> On 1/22/2017 2:51 PM, news16 wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 02:31:17 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a
>>>>> thing that Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM)
>>>>> and once digital research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written
>>>>> to be as compatible as possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary
>>>>> implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as was possible given the multi
>>>>> user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>>>>
>>>> Different machines shirley since CPM was Z80 based and DOS was
>>>> 8086/8088 based.
>>>>
>>> There was CP/M86 that ran om PCs, but it was too little too late
>>> for DR.
>>
>> CP/M86 was pretty much DOA. CP/M was very much a Z80/8080 OS.
>
>
> You are correct but much of the code base went on to re-appear in
> DR-DOS and of course concurrent DOS.
>
>
> Albeit in much, much modified form.

Of course it was you clown. Different processor, different architecture. 
It couldn't be anything else but much modified but as a concept it was 
*operationally* very similar.
>
> The attraction was that unlike MS/PC-DOS CP/M always included the
> concept of multi user and MP/M and concurrent DOS expanded that, MP/M
> firmed up the multi user and had vestigal Multi tasking, Concurrent DOS
> had a far, far better system of locks and flags to allow reasonably
> reliable multitasking providing the application software played ball
> (which was the major problem with what DEIR ended up with - some
> software worked very well, but if one person accessed the "wrong" piece
> of of software then the whle lot crashed.  The "network" consisted of
> nothing more complicated than serial consoles.
>
And a computer with a multi-user operating system to which all those 
serial consoles were attached.

All of this is sideshifting bullshit, something you as a lawyer are 
rather expert at.
>
> The resident village idiot, lying tom, was trying to "prove" me lying
> yesterday by quoting from the CP/M manual it found online and claiming
> it was no different to concurrent DOS (and for that matter Concurrent
> DOS reworked by Wang).
>
That was a CONCURRENT CP/M manual. The reworking by Wang would have been 
simply the linking to the *hardware*. GenCPM and all that. That and 
maybe a few additional utilities
>
> About as relevant as pulling out a workshop manual for an EH and
> arguing that the specifications are the same for the current commodore.
>
Au contraire my fine lying friend. The manual was for the *generic* 
Concurrent CP/M and Concurrent DOS. It is the absolutely correct manual 
for the task. Any Wang Concurrent XXX manual will be identical but will 
include and additional utilities provided for the system by Wang. 
Cromemco did exactly the same with the systems they provided. The 
Cromemco Concurrent XXX manual is an expanded version of the generic. 
Any attempt by you to prove otherwise is absolute bullshit.
>
> But no matter, we all know what lying tom is like, the graceless
> creature is incapable of ever admitting it is wrong and when it runs
> out of any form of semi-rational argument it will simply uproot the
> goal posts and publish reams and reams of irrelevant dreck and claim
> that it "proves" something (which i am prepared to bet it has done by
> now and if it hasnt it will to so today).
>


-- 

Xeno

First they ignore you,
Then they ridicule you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

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#57436

Fromkeithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Date2017-01-22 15:26 +1000
Message-ID<eeiu4vF5nqlU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57427
On 1/22/2017 12:31 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:
> D Walford wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> "Who is is this bastard General Failure, and why is he reading my
>>> hard drive?"  she said.
>>>
>>> Knowing how much "stuff" that was important to her was on her
>>> computer I delegated someone else to explain to her and retreated
>>> to my office.
>>>
>> LOL, sharp as a tow ball:-)
>
> Oh yes, and I see, courtesy of an email sent to me by someone else that
> the well known, pig eyed, lying sack of shit, lying tom clasenr has had
> a dig at me over it too, he also is as sharp as a towball fitted with a
> tennis ball.
>
>
> Well that stupid fucktard has been let down by google yet again.....
>
> CDOS can mean:-
>
> Cromenco Dos
> Concurrent Dos
> or even
> Convergent Dos (before Digital Research threatened to sue and they
> changed it to CTOS.)
>
>
>
> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>
> As such, M/PM, DR-DOS and C-DOS never, ever had hexadecimal console
> error codes with the exception of some fairly arcane stuff that most
> users never saw.

I unfortunately had experience of concurrent DOS in a POS system (That 
can be reasonably interpreted both ways). It was accurately described as 
only allowable between consenting adults in private.

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#57439

From"Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org>
Date2017-01-22 06:13 +0000
Message-ID<eej0rvF69e4U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57436
keithr0 wrote:

> 
> I unfortunately had experience of concurrent DOS in a POS system
> (That can be reasonably interpreted both ways). It was accurately
> described as only allowable between consenting adults in private.

On that we are in 100% agreement.

The Wang version of CDOS was sold to the Dept I worked for on the basis
that it was 95% compatible with MS/PC-Dos.

That was true as far as it went, sadly DEIR interpreted it to mean that
95% of all PC/MS-DOS software would run on the shiny Wang PCs. What it
really meant was that 95% of any given piece of PC/MS-DOS software
would run - until it crashed horridly.

so bad was the promblem that when DEIR/DEET re-equipped with Windows
PCs (sourced from Osborne and with Australian made laser printers -
both companies went tits up just to show how clever DEIR/DEET was in
backing IT equipment supplier survivors) that scores of Wang PCs were
found in many offices never having been unboxed.

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#57454

Fromkeithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Date2017-01-22 20:02 +1000
Message-ID<eeje9vF993oU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57439
On 1/22/2017 4:13 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:
> keithr0 wrote:
>
>>
>> I unfortunately had experience of concurrent DOS in a POS system
>> (That can be reasonably interpreted both ways). It was accurately
>> described as only allowable between consenting adults in private.
>
> On that we are in 100% agreement.
>
> The Wang version of CDOS was sold to the Dept I worked for on the basis
> that it was 95% compatible with MS/PC-Dos.
>
> That was true as far as it went, sadly DEIR interpreted it to mean that
> 95% of all PC/MS-DOS software would run on the shiny Wang PCs. What it
> really meant was that 95% of any given piece of PC/MS-DOS software
> would run - until it crashed horridly.
>
> so bad was the promblem that when DEIR/DEET re-equipped with Windows
> PCs (sourced from Osborne and with Australian made laser printers -
> both companies went tits up just to show how clever DEIR/DEET was in
> backing IT equipment supplier survivors) that scores of Wang PCs were
> found in many offices never having been unboxed.
>
I bought the first micro-computer that Fujitsu Australia ever owned, an 
Osbourne 1. For those who never saw one, it was probably the first 
portable computer, about the size and weight of a sewing machine. It had 
the keyboard in the lid, a very small CRT and two 5 1/4" disks and ran 
CP/M. We bought it for a project in the Canberra office but the 
engineering director visited and saw Visicalc on it and we never saw it 
again.

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#57455

From"Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org>
Date2017-01-22 10:19 +0000
Message-ID<eejf9rF9grvU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57454
keithr0 wrote:

> > 
> I bought the first micro-computer that Fujitsu Australia ever owned,
> an Osbourne 1. For those who never saw one, it was probably the first
> portable computer, about the size and weight of a sewing machine. It
> had the keyboard in the lid, a very small CRT and two 5 1/4" disks
> and ran CP/M. We bought it for a project in the Canberra office but
> the engineering director visited and saw Visicalc on it and we never
> saw it again.

Had one of those too - over time it grew a DSDD floppy and a 5meg (Oh
the power) Trantor hard drive in the other floppy slot. A 300baud modem
and it was everything I could want - until I saw a President that was.

Had to have one and foolishly sold the O1 - The President was a piece
of absolute crap that spent most of its time at the Agent awaiting
repairs. The only thing the President had going for it was the included
"P-system" which became (aside form basic) the basis for my first
forays away from machine code.

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#57482

Fromnews16 <news16@woa.com.au>
Date2017-01-24 02:26 +0000
Message-ID<o66e0n$d73$4@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57439
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 06:13:19 +0000, Blue Peeler wrote:

 
> so bad was the promblem that when DEIR/DEET re-equipped with Windows PCs
> (sourced from Osborne and with Australian made laser printers - both
> companies went tits up just to show how clever DEIR/DEET was in backing
> IT equipment supplier survivors)

What was the brand of laser printer.

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#57445

FromXeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au>
Date2017-01-22 18:08 +1100
Message-ID<o61lmh$d1t$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57427
On 22/01/2017 1:31 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:

<snip>
>
>
> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing

Speaking of liars, here's one of your mates up to lawyer tricks.
The worst part of the story was that *his mates* deemed him to have 
"given significant service to the community and that he should receive 
credit for this". Somehow the fact that he was a filthy liar and a slimy 
cheat should have been noted and, had it been anyone but a lawyer guilty 
of such deception, they would have received prison time and had their 
career destroyed.

Barrister caught out writing himself into client’s Will
Peter Mickelburough, Herald Sun
January 21, 2017 8:00pm

A ONCE respected barrister feted by Governor-Generals and a champion of 
war hero Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop’s legacy has been caught out writing 
himself into a client’s Will and attempting to cover his tracks.

Dino De Marchi, a former member of the elite Special Air Services and 
Vietnam War veteran, stood to get a fifth of his client’s estate after 
agreeing to take her and her deceased daughter’s ashes to Trieste in 
Italy to be scattered.

De Marchi pleaded guilty to including his name as a “significant 
beneficiary” in a Will he was preparing and failing to tell his client 
of a provision allowing he, or his firm, to be paid to administer her 
estate.

But he remains free to practise after the Victorian Civil and 
Administrative Tribunal decided a reprimand and $5000 fine was 
appropriate given De Marchi’s celebrated past.

A lawyer since 1979, De Marchi chaired a working party that established 
the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation and was chairman of 
the foundation from 1994 to 2010. In 2010 De Marchi was feted by former 
Governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce at Government House to mark the 
foundation’s Silver Jubilee.
De Marchi with former Governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce.

He also co-authored a book for schoolchildren on Sir Edward’s life, with 
a forward written by the current Governor-general Sir Peter Cosgrove.

De Marchi also served on the Returned Service Leagues state executive 
for 16 years, was a vice-president of the Ivanhoe RSL, and a member of 
the order of St John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller.

According to an agreed statement of facts put to VCAT, Lidia Toffolon 
visited De Marchi & Associates in Brunswick in November 2013 and asked 
De Marchi to prepare her a new Will and a medical power of attorney.

Ms Toffolon told De Marchi she wanted to leave her estate to two 
friends, two charities and her doctor. She appointed her lawyer and her 
doctor as executors and trustees of her Will.

After later discussions she instructed De Marchi to also include himself 
as a beneficiary.

Vinokurov Vladmir, a solicitor employed by De Marchi, told him it would 
breach the rules for him to be a beneficiary, but rather than 
immediately ceasing to act for Ms Toffolon, De Marchi told Mr Vinokurov 
to remove his firm’s name and address from the cover page before 
printing the Will.

De Marchi then took Ms Toffolon to fellow Brunswick lawyer, Carl Soccio 
of Soccio & Associates, who read the Will to Ms Toffolon and asked if 
she understood it. Ms Toffolon said that she did.
De Marchi’s book, ‘Weary: An Australian Hero.’
The book features a foreword by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. 
Picture: Chris McCormack.

Mr Soccio later told the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner that 
before witnessing Ms Toffolon sign her Will he informed her of rules 
prohibiting a lawyer receiving a “substantial benefit” from a client’s Will.

De Marchi walked Ms Toffolon back to his office and told her Mr Soccio 
might bill her for witnessing her Will. He had already told her there 
would be no charge for his services.

When Mr Soccio sent an invoice De Marchi paid it and did not seek 
reimbursement from his client until August, 2014, three months after Ms 
Toffolon sought fresh legal advice from Louise Clayton of Ryan Carlisle 
Thomas.

After Ms Clayton informed De Marchi of her appointment and requested he 
provide her office with the Will, he tried to contact Ms Toffolon and 
wrote to the attorneys nominated in her Power of Attorney expressing 
concern about her welfare and whereabouts.

In 2014, the Legal Services Commissioner investigated a complaint from 
Ms Clayton on behalf of herself and Ms Toffolon and found De Marchi 
guilty of professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional 
conduct. The matter was then referred to VCAT in June last year, with a 
hearing held last month.

Senior Member Gerard decided a reprimand for each offence, a $5000 fine 
and $15,000 in costs satisfied the need for general deterrence and 
protection of the legal profession’s reputation.

Mr Gerard accepted De Marchi’s behaviour was “an isolated incident in 
what is otherwise a blameless record” and said the result would have 
been more severe but for the lawyer’s service to the community.

“I am satisfied that Mr De Marchi has given significant service to the 
community and that he should receive credit for this,” Mr Butcher said.



that
> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>
> As such, M/PM, DR-DOS and C-DOS never, ever had hexadecimal console
> error codes with the exception of some fairly arcane stuff that most
> users never saw.
>
>
> If the stupid lying cunt does not believe me, then it can go to this
> site :
>
> https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-research-con
>
> and download itself a copy of concurrent dos and see for itself (486 or
> earlier processor required due to requirement for 8086 emulation and
> protected mode switch validation). For shit and giggles there are
> several versions - he should take the time to check each one of them.
>
>
> Or the stupid cunt can alternatively simply go to:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJmB0WJpMs
>
> and get an education - not admittedly the education it so badly needs
> and richly deserves (that wwould involve a baseball bat applied
> repeatedly across its kidneys, kneecaps, elbows and ankles) but an
> education nonetheless.
>
>
> Moral of the story lying tom - google will never stand you in good
> stead against people with actual knowledge. You should write that on a
> piece of paper and stick it to the bottom of your monitor and read it
> anytime you are tempted to either tell your own usual lies, or use your
> defective googling to wrongly accuse someone else of lying.
>
>
> Studpid, useless, self-aggrandising, loathsome toad that you are!
>


-- 

Xeno

First they ignore you,
Then they ridicule you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

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#57459

FromGrumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com>
Date2017-01-23 04:45 +1000
Message-ID<o62ujj$1942$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#57427
On 22/01/2017 12:31 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:
> D Walford wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> "Who is is this bastard General Failure, and why is he reading my
>>> hard drive?"  she said.
>>>
>>> Knowing how much "stuff" that was important to her was on her
>>> computer I delegated someone else to explain to her and retreated
>>> to my office.
>>>
>> LOL, sharp as a tow ball:-)
>
> Oh yes, and I see, courtesy of an email sent to me by someone else that
> the well known, pig eyed, lying sack of shit, lying tom clasenr has had
> a dig at me over it too, he also is as sharp as a towball fitted with a
> tennis ball.
>
>
> Well that stupid fucktard has been let down by google yet again.....
>
> CDOS can mean:-
>
> Cromenco Dos
> Concurrent Dos
> or even
> Convergent Dos (before Digital Research threatened to sue and they
> changed it to CTOS.)
>
>
>
> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>
> As such, M/PM, DR-DOS and C-DOS never, ever had hexadecimal console
> error codes with the exception of some fairly arcane stuff that most
> users never saw.
>
>
> If the stupid lying cunt does not believe me, then it can go to this
> site :
>
> https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-research-con
>
> and download itself a copy of concurrent dos and see for itself (486 or
> earlier processor required due to requirement for 8086 emulation and
> protected mode switch validation). For shit and giggles there are
> several versions - he should take the time to check each one of them.
>
>
> Or the stupid cunt can alternatively simply go to:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJmB0WJpMs
>
> and get an education - not admittedly the education it so badly needs
> and richly deserves (that wwould involve a baseball bat applied
> repeatedly across its kidneys, kneecaps, elbows and ankles) but an
> education nonetheless.
>
>
> Moral of the story lying tom - google will never stand you in good
> stead against people with actual knowledge. You should write that on a
> piece of paper and stick it to the bottom of your monitor and read it
> anytime you are tempted to either tell your own usual lies, or use your
> defective googling to wrongly accuse someone else of lying.
>
>
> Studpid, useless, self-aggrandising, loathsome toad that you are!
>

Stepping in here for a few seconds, and whilst you can get general 
failure errors in most operating systems of the time (Code 1f), a 
general failure at boot time was generally generated by the bios of the 
system or i/o card and not the operating system. It could relate to 
improper jumper settings, improper low level formatting, irq errors, i/o 
card errors, bios errors, address setting errors (having two cards set 
at c800 or dc00 for example) and of course hard drive failures, the 
latter accompanied by screeching almost as loud as the person who 
discovered it...

I know I had seagate MFM drive and tried to interleave it at 1 to get 
better speed. Didn't work terribly well. It needed to be at 3 to work. 
You also had to set the heads, sectors, and tracks correctly in bios or 
on the controller card or you would get the same errors.

I think I have pretty much covered it, but to put not too fine a point 
on it, it was more likely a bios or controller card error message and 
absolutely nothing to do with the operating system, so in essence 
Bluey's story has an element of truth to it, and xeno quite frankly you 
are wrong as usual.

My brain almost hurts remembering the fun of changing interrupts on i/o 
cards so they would all work in the system. I also had a list of almost 
every drive made on my bbs which gave you the heads, sectors, and tracks 
information.

As hdd's became more prevalent, they used to print the info on the label 
so that you could enter it in the bios when onboard controllers became 
standard, and before they autodetected the hard drive parameters.



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#57462

FromClocky <notgonn@happen.com>
Date2017-01-23 07:24 +0800
Message-ID<58853f36$0$11096$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>
In reply to#57459
On 23/01/2017 2:45 AM, Grumpy Tech wrote:
> On 22/01/2017 12:31 PM, Blue Peeler wrote:
>> D Walford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Who is is this bastard General Failure, and why is he reading my
>>>> hard drive?"  she said.
>>>>
>>>> Knowing how much "stuff" that was important to her was on her
>>>> computer I delegated someone else to explain to her and retreated
>>>> to my office.
>>>>
>>> LOL, sharp as a tow ball:-)
>>
>> Oh yes, and I see, courtesy of an email sent to me by someone else that
>> the well known, pig eyed, lying sack of shit, lying tom clasenr has had
>> a dig at me over it too, he also is as sharp as a towball fitted with a
>> tennis ball.
>>
>>
>> Well that stupid fucktard has been let down by google yet again.....
>>
>> CDOS can mean:-
>>
>> Cromenco Dos
>> Concurrent Dos
>> or even
>> Convergent Dos (before Digital Research threatened to sue and they
>> changed it to CTOS.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I can assure the loathsome,lying, useless, cunt of a thing that
>> Concurrent Dos began life as Multi-user CP/M (M/PM) and once digital
>> research released DR-DOS, C-DOS was re-written to be as compatible as
>> possible with DR-DOS (and by necessary implication MS-DOS, PC-DOS) as
>> was possible given the multi user/multi-tasking intention behind it.
>>
>> As such, M/PM, DR-DOS and C-DOS never, ever had hexadecimal console
>> error codes with the exception of some fairly arcane stuff that most
>> users never saw.
>>
>>
>> If the stupid lying cunt does not believe me, then it can go to this
>> site :
>>
>> https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-research-con
>>
>> and download itself a copy of concurrent dos and see for itself (486 or
>> earlier processor required due to requirement for 8086 emulation and
>> protected mode switch validation). For shit and giggles there are
>> several versions - he should take the time to check each one of them.
>>
>>
>> Or the stupid cunt can alternatively simply go to:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJmB0WJpMs
>>
>> and get an education - not admittedly the education it so badly needs
>> and richly deserves (that wwould involve a baseball bat applied
>> repeatedly across its kidneys, kneecaps, elbows and ankles) but an
>> education nonetheless.
>>
>>
>> Moral of the story lying tom - google will never stand you in good
>> stead against people with actual knowledge.

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 ;-)

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#57463

From"Blue Peeler" <woof@barque.org>
Date2017-01-23 00:29 +0000
Message-ID<eel12tFlas0U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#57462
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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#57467

FromXeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au>
Date2017-01-23 17:24 +1100
Message-ID<o647g7$o53$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#57463
On 23/01/2017 11:29 AM, Blue Peeler wrote:
> 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.

We all have them. Hey, even me!   ;-)

I even had a DX2/66  and a DX4/100.
>
> 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.

Clocky doesn't need to. I can defend my own. You, on the other hand, 
post arguments (and other bullshit) that are indefensible.
>
> 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.
>
Not at all. I culled a hell of a lot 4 years back when I moved. I kept 
some stuff because of various reasons but mostly because it was already 
packed in plastic boxes (and still is) which made it easy to move and 
store. It is continually shrinking however. In my recent searching for 
items to cull, I recently came across some of my old auto trans 
textbooks. I will keep them!  ;-)
>
> 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

You mean like the irrelevant Wang and Osborne bullshit you raved on 
about in the latter half of this post of yours?

> 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

That's because you aren't looking hard enough. There are plenty around 
though not all are particularly complete. Most do not include the bits I 
wanted - appendices - so I had to manually type out, in minimalistic 
form, the relevant bits from the appendices in my dead tree version.

> 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......

CP/M error codes are always Hex numbers. The difference is what the 
operating system does with those numbers, ie. displays them on the 
console translated to error *messages*. Try DDT and see what form the 
errors take.
>
> 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

All of the early computers that ran Concurrent CP/M / DOS had different 
hardware architecture to the IBM-PC. Most of the early stuff was S100 
based for a start. Big difference right there.

> 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.
>
Irrelevant crap
>
> 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 would put it like this. An EH Holden repair manual suits an EH Holden, 
regardless of whether the car is an auto or a manual, 179 or 149 engine, 
wagon, ute, van, sedan, standard or special.

You might get away with it on,say, an FE - EJ since there were few major 
changes in that period. Gearbox was one. Ditto EJ - EH, engine being the 
major change.

The Commodore is a totally different car. The only similarity, at least 
in the early models, was that they still used a much worked over 
derivative of the red motor. That's about as close as it got. Brakes, 
steering, suspension, gearbox, etc. all different in a big way. The 
manuals are also different. Naturally.

You cannot treat operating systems that way. The operating system is a 
standardised user interface, the customisations pertaining to the 
hardware links or hooks. For the user, there should be little difference.

I can use OSX as a perfect example of this. OSX began life on the 
PowerPC CPU and related architecture. Some years later, Apple saw the 
limits of that CPU and transitioned to the Intel CPU with an 
architecture that was an advance on the PCs of the time. As far as OSX 
was concerned, it ran on both. The user saw no change. In fact, up to 
10.5.8. the same install DVD would install the OS onto either 
architecture. From the next version of the OS, Apple dropped support for 
the PowerPC so that only the Intel architecture was supported. From OS/X 
10.1 through to 10.12, the user interface has generally remained 
consistent, the only changes being the addition of new features.

> 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.
>
And the above is a great example of lawyer obfuscation, your specialty.

-- 

Xeno

First they ignore you,
Then they ridicule you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

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#57465

FromGrumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com>
Date2017-01-23 12:31 +1000
Message-ID<o63pth$hhk$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#57462
On 23/01/2017 9:24 AM, Clocky wrote:
> On 23/01/2017 2:45 AM, Grumpy Tech 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 ;-)
>
You replied to a post of mine. However I think you were talking to blue. 
Somewhat confusing.

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#57469

FromClocky <notgonn@happen.com>
Date2017-01-23 20:18 +0800
Message-ID<5885f480$0$11095$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>
In reply to#57465
On 23/01/2017 10:31 AM, Grumpy Tech wrote:
> On 23/01/2017 9:24 AM, Clocky wrote:
>> On 23/01/2017 2:45 AM, Grumpy Tech 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 ;-)
>>
> You replied to a post of mine. However I think you were talking to blue.
> Somewhat confusing.
>
>

Sorry about that, my bad.

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