The collected works of skywriter - Page 9

sybrfreq wrote: I also admit to liking Barry Manilow and Carole King

are you a Scientologist too?

modology wrote: Some latest news, developer of ramen has left the project due to personal reason. The community is trying to pick up the pieces and to continue the project.

if only the boy worked harder!

DEC generally used OEM systems to provide anything other than core minicomputer functionality, and peripheral customization for their IO buses. this changed around the early VAX when they started to mostly build their own disk drives. the Tape, and graphics were still OEM with customizations.

one such system was the GT100 (i believe that was it) used a 19 inch monochrome hooked up with a pdp-11 to do vector graphics for SUDS which ran on KL10's during the development of Jupiter (36) and Venus (32) systems. Jupiter was canceled, and Venus was the VAX 8600. GIGI graphics, VT125, VS2000, etc.. nothing really special in my recollection there. of course it was a big company. not everything happened in Marlboro.

I was long gone by '88.

In 1988 E&S and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) announced the availability of the VAXstation 8000, a color workstation featuring DEC's VAX computer and a very fast graphics system produced by E&S. Both corporations marketed the jointly produced item.

024 is an FDDI adapter

the Freq got the others on my list.

theinonen wrote: Has that great Boston sound, and for some strange reason I like the video too.

sorry i live in boston. they're highly over-rated.

my kids like the 80's. telling no?

looking for a simple to use 2D drawing program for drafting of floor plans and other simple physical scenarios.

for the moment, i'm drawing spec's for control room dimensions, a sound treatment components for my contractor to build. the studio roughs are finished.

to begin; blender is not appropriate for this, and too steep a learning curve google sketch is also a no to my liking.

basically looking for something akin to doing just drafting with ruler and pencil, but without getting the left hand smudge. ezdraw looked good.

thanks guys. i'll give 'em a shot. hearken though, simplicity carries the day! else, i'll avail myself of the tried and true pencil and paper.

BC, thanks but xfig is less than base bone - no bones :) i remember seeing it for the frist time back in the heavy mists of the past. Now; pencil, ruler, and paper for me.

inkscape and gimp hang on application launch. sometimes they finally come up, other times, they don't. if it worked it would probably fit the bill. but they don't.

forgot to mention OS X only.

Geoman wrote: and there's even a link on the lower left side to Nekochan.net!!

now with this link in place please keep a civil tongue in your our mouth (or cheek :) ) and avoid contributing to corporate misconduct, if any. it is excellent publicity, as well as corporate recognition we should be proud of.

oh i see where the confusion comes in. i meant 'our', not 'your'. i'll change that!

yeah i didn't think so either :)

i was never attracted to Amiga until Byte had that article about the out that ran 'Unix'. By that time you could get SLS 10 floppy distribution of linux. Prior to that i invested (that is such a misnomer) in AtariST and Radio Shack Color Computer OS/9 stuff for home, had all the time on PDP-10 systems at work the idea of doing anything with Amiga was senseless.

PymbleSoftware wrote: SLS distribution of Linux was 50 floppies, if i recall... and I never recall SLS for 68k.

R.

SLS had a core distribution of 10 floppies. you needed more floppy for the system to do more, like compiler, Kernel, X11, etc... but 10 was a bootable useful system. i am not wrong. i did not mean to imply SLS was for the Amiga. just pure dumbass 386/387.

for my gaggle of atariST's i had Modula-3, FORTRAN, C, and a multitasking kernel that crashed all the time MicroRTX i think. plus the B&W screens.it got so frustrating at times, that i just blew everything away and loaded Minix instead. that was a little better but such backwards process control.

except for the the lower resolution screen, the COCO3 was light years ahead of that mess.

these days the escape key on my iMac is light years ahead of all that.

one of my first guitars was an Ibanez, late 70's model. whoa, was it the heaviest axe i ever played!

in other news: stubbed toe, cured headache.

all true. but people love magic, and hate reality. don't spoil their dreams.

pentium wrote: It uses those blasted DDR2 mini-DIMMs. So that's (possibly) why my shop shipped almost 1000 sticks to china recently.

the article says DDR3.

kshuff wrote:

chancehooper wrote: I wonder how much it would take to port IRIX to that architecture?

Nobody left at SGI that knows anything about IRIX anymore

agreed. that horse has been beaten to death a hundred times over on the board. please no more, nobody has anything new to say.

it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all or loaded linux in the end.

glad i got the ipad 1. by the time i need the new one, it'll be a serious step up.

bri3d wrote: Stallman carried a Lemote netbook for a while as the entire hardware/software stack from the ground-up was open-spec and open-source.

that's good enough for me to pass on it.

bri3d wrote: Sadly they were also garbage.

why am i surprised?
i'm not really.

PymbleSoftware wrote: Still I wish there was any choice other than WIntel or MacTel(?).

things won't really change much until the many multi-core hardware architectures push software into a completely different domain. just wait out the monotonous present. good things may be in store in a decade, or perhaps less.

At our company we had about 40 people in japan, nobody missing. So many contradictory reports about missing, and dead people. It's impossible to wrap your head around it.

Designer, architect, strategist, futurist for an IT infrastructure company.

There was plenty of DASH info on Archie in the 90's when I read it. Alas.... Where has it all gone.

Unfortunately, it's not all a radioisotope of iodine, radioisotope of cesium has also be detected and it's half life is considerably longer than merely 8 days.

9 character, mixed case alpha, numerical, with special characters. One for each account kept in my head via muscle memory.

during their thesis no less. i didn't know what i wanted to do in life until after i got out of college and cleared my head. physicists make dirt. i wouldn't mind being an astronomer in my retirement.

unfortunately, during the couple of hours, or a couple of days, in the gastrointestinal system Cesium ain't just whistling Dixie.

josehill wrote: No. Generally, it's excreted quickly.

SAQ wrote: Does Cs accumulate biologically the same way?

Functional programming, yum!

Eliza would make a great IRC channel with a few changes. It's cheerfully monotonous!

I always found the web to be a pointless distraction to enjoying an SGI with IRIX.

I do what neko does as well. Fwiw iomega maintains a customer forum which while sometimes can be useful, is in my experience, manned by fairly uninformative company reps. Too bad, since the products are generally pretty good.

That guy is a pain in the ass sometimes.

oh, i thought you said flies!

opcode wrote: It seems like the only thing left is Linux....

if you're having thoughts like that... the game is over.