Well it was the 286 I meant; DOS 3.2 on the 286 stopped at 640K, I used
ramdisk, no problem with SVr4. That's all. I'm not blaming M$ for
everything. I'm sure DOS would have been hard to keep backward compatible,
the unix didn't have to be, it was ported to the 286. DOS caught up later.
Peter
On
XP?) but used all 1.5 MB naturally with the unix (making it clear to
me, btw, that the "640K RAM Barrier" was MS's fault, not Intel's).
I'm the last to defend msft, but this 640k thing irks me.
640k is the physical hardware address of the graphics buffer;
IBM put it there. on the 8086/8088, th
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:05:09PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
> Be interesting to compare it with PGI 7.1 (which apparently has some
> more optimisations for Barcelona) and -fastsse..
... and PathScale 3.1, which has real Barcelona support. Given that
PathScale has a substantial lead over PGI on
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:41:52PM +, andrew holway wrote:
> Scores for redundancy, reliability and value. Nice features etc. Id
> like to build a decent comparison of all the options available cos
> honestly, I don't have a clue :) and all the data online seems a
> little stale.
Given that m
Scores for redundancy, reliability and value. Nice features etc. Id
like to build a decent comparison of all the options available cos
honestly, I don't have a clue :) and all the data online seems a
little stale.
Andy
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I thought that modern Python had dropped the "forced indentation"
thing? I thought that whitespace dictating control-flow was Evil and I
refused to touch Python, but I know alot of sys types like it and I
heard they relented on that point.
Peter
On Nov 22, 2007 4:07 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Microport, with a team of 4 programmers, ported a licensed AT&T System
V to the i286 and sold it for about $100 starting in 1985, when SCO
"Xenix" was like $500. I was a customer. They went bankrupt later but
to some extent paved the way for unix on PCs on the cheap.
Wiki is http://en.wikipedia.org
Hi,
Am 18.11.2007 um 23:47 schrieb Vladimir V.Popov:
I am trying to install PVM/XPVM (1-st time "yum install pvm-gui",
and today
from http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~kohl/XPVM/XPVM.src.1.2.5+8.tar.Z)
on Fedora 7, but seem to be having trouble:
you compiled PVM and XPVM on your own in your home?
