On Saturday 20 July 2013 04:37:17 Jon Elson did opine: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Tell me something Jon? How much an hour are you guys making while > > contemplating this reversion to 1960's technology? > > > > Sorry, just had to ask about the picture this thread is painting. ;-) > > I'm just SO GLAD that technology has moved forward! Punched cards, > paper tape, even the old 1/2" 9-track magnetic tape were such a pain! > My old microVAX is right next to me, it was SUCH a hot machine in 1986 > when I got it. Now, it is 1000 X slower than my desktop, and that is a > literal performance measure! > > Jon
I have a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 in the basement, running right now because me & a fellow in .au land are trying to sort out the remaining errors in building its os to run on ALL the variations of the 'coco' that the shack & several other vendors were selling back in the '80's. Mine is a bit hot rodded from the stock version which came with 128k of ram as this one has 2 megs of dram in it, and it was found by us, the users, that the hitachi aftermarket replacement for the motorola MC6809EP, the HD6309EP, wasn't a clone of moto's masks, but a from the ground up reverse engineered version done in CMOS that had its microcode map filled up with additional, much smarter instructions. Transplant one of those into the coco, and re-write the OS to take advantage of it and its nearly 200% faster without playing with the clock speed. I had a hand in that conversion myself, and even wrote a new driver for it to handle a serial mouse since the OEM shack mouse is spastic when its feeling good. Mine also has a pair of 1Gb (huge) scsi drives on it, so storage is definitely not a problem. But today, we actually build the OS on a linux box, which takes this one about 7 minutes. That OS is a smaller version of linux, 7 or 8 years before Linus went public in '91. And its why I don't touch a windows machine without sterile gloves, I don't want to take a chance & catch any of that 10 day old carcass's bugs. Off topic of course. :) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clk > trk _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> With YOU, I can be MYSELF ... We don't NEED Dan Rather ... A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
