Depends on what you like to do with it. Most computer today are
entertainment center.
I have a DVD player for that.
cheers
DS
On Mon, 5 May 2014 10:35:24 -0400 dmccunney
writes:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Dale E Sterner
> wrote:
> > Very true. It doesn't mean that a new computer is bet
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Very true. It doesn't mean that a new computer is better than the old one
> being recycled.
Depends on what you consider "better". Most folks think faster, more
powerful, and cheaper is better.
> A new twist I heard that Micro Soft is req
Very true. It doesn't mean that a new computer is better than the old one
being recycled.
A new twist I heard that Micro Soft is requiring computer vendors to
write their bios so that
only win 8 will boot on them. They want to get rid of Linux.Once a win 8
machine forever a
win 8 machine.
cheers
D
On 2014-05-05 09:32 (GMT-0400) Dale E Sterner composed:
> So what prevents higher clock speeds for IDE.
Crosstalk and impedance, but there are other reasons why SATA is better too.
For a
better answer you could have looked it up instead of asking here. e.g.
http://hexus.net/tech/tech-explained
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I think cost is the big factor for serial. Serial would have to clock 8
> times faster to match IDE.
Cost is the big factor, period. PCs are commodities, with commodity
pricing. Given the same specs, it largely doesn't *matter* whose name
I think cost is the big factor for serial. Serial would have to clock 8
times faster to match IDE.
A 250 gig CF chip costs $1500 while an SD chip is much much cheaper.
I.
On Sun, 4 May 2014 15:06:36 -0400 dmccunney
writes:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Dale E Sterner
> wrote:
> > My machi
So what prevents higher clock speeds for IDE. I think serial is just a
lot cheaper to
make.
DS
On Sun, 04 May 2014 17:47:46 +0200 Frantisek Hanzlik
writes:
> Dale E Sterner wrote:
> > My machines are all old and use only IDE. As for SATA I don't see
> how
> > that could be better.
> > The S st
That means serial would have to be clocked 8 times faster at least to
match paraiiel.
Thanks.
DS
On Sun, 04 May 2014 08:41:59 -0700 "Michael B. Brutman"
writes:
>
> Synchronizing the sending of bits over parallel interfaces is much
> more
> difficult than it is to send a single serial bit str
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> My machines are all old and use only IDE. As for SATA I don't see how
> that could be better.
> The S stands for serial or one bit at a time. A SATA drive interface has
> only 4 lines going
> into it vs IDE which has 44 lines. On SATA 2 line
Dale E Sterner wrote:
> My machines are all old and use only IDE. As for SATA I don't see how
> that could be better.
> The S stands for serial or one bit at a time. A SATA drive interface has
> only 4 lines going
> into it vs IDE which has 44 lines. On SATA 2 lines are for power, the
> other 2 lin
Synchronizing the sending of bits over parallel interfaces is much more
difficult than it is to send a single serial bit stream. As a result,
you can send that single serial stream of bits faster than you can do it
in parallel across multiple wires.
SCSI went through this transition when driv
My machines are all old and use only IDE. As for SATA I don't see how
that could be better.
The S stands for serial or one bit at a time. A SATA drive interface has
only 4 lines going
into it vs IDE which has 44 lines. On SATA 2 lines are for power, the
other 2 lines are for data.
Using the same cl
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> SD is alot cheaper to make than CF. SD is one bit at a time while CF is 8
> bits at a time. If they both use the same clock which do you think is faster.
SD. As mentioned, CF is largely dead these days. Do some research on
current usage
The thing that troubles me is that when you are in FREEDOS and type "help
display";
the example given for its use is VGA. When you put it in verbatium, it
doesn't work.
Strange to give a help example that doesn't work.
cheers
DS
.
On Sat, 3 May 2014 00:19:20 GMT "Bret Johnson"
writes:
> Quoting
SD is alot cheaper to make than CF. SD is one bit at a time while CF is 8
bits at a time.
If they both use the same clock which do you think is faster.
cheers
DS
On Fri, 2 May 2014 20:49:36 -0400 dmccunney
writes:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Dale E Sterner
> wrote:
>
> > SD flash is a s
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> SD flash is a serial device similiar to rs232 but compact flash has the
> same interface as an ide hard drive.Pin for pin they are the same. SD chips
> are very slow but cf are fast.
If you look at comparative benchmarks, I think you'll dis
Hi,
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> Or, as Bret Johnson suggested, read the (FD, HTML-) Help:
>
> http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/display.htm
Oops, corrected the name here. (Bah, you're all the same!) :-P
---
Hi,
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> Now why doesn't display work for vga.
I don't know. :-)As a hopeless end user, I admit to not having
used such things lately.
Aitor Santamaria Merino is official maintainer for (FD) DISPLAY but
presumably still too busy to resp
Quoting from the MS-DOS 6.22 Help program ("HELP DISPLAY.SYS" at a command
prompt):
"The EGA value supports both EGA and VGA display adapters. If you omit the
type parameter, DISPLAY.SYS checks the hardware to determine which display
adapter is in use. You can also specify CGA and MONO as val
SD flash is a serial device similiar to rs232 but compact flash has the
same interface as
an ide hard drive.Pin for pin they are the same. SD chips are very slow
but cf are fast.
I used idecheck to clock a travelstar hard drive it was 7 mbs while a
Sandisk extreme iv clocked at
14 mbs. Then you add
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> What is an SSD device, I'm talking about compact flash chip used mostly
> in cameras but can replace an ide hard drive.
SSD is "Solid State Drive". The common point here is that Compact
Flash, Secure Digital, and Solid State Drives all use
Solid State Disk NAND flash
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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> What is an SSD device, I'm talking about compact f
What is an SSD device, I'm talking about compact flash chip used mostly
in cameras
but can replace an ide hard drive. You can pull a dos loaded chip from a
computer and move
it to another computer without too many problems Windows will work on one
computer but will refuse to work on another machine
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Oh if anyone wants their FREEDOS to run faster and they have an ide harddrive
> then copy your
> FREEDOS to a compactflash chip and replace your ide drive with an cf adapter
> and run your dos
> from the cf chip instead of the hard drive
When I try display con=(vga,437,1) it returns an error "unknown hardware
device" but if I change vga to
ega it works. Why doesn't vga work?
Oh if anyone wants their FREEDOS to run faster and they have an ide
harddrive then copy your
FREEDOS to a compactflash chip and replace your ide drive with an
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