My Vintage Dream PC

[Sylvia Else]

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Why are you dreaming about PCs? A kid your age should be dreaming
about girls.

If he can't get a PC, what are his chances of getting a girl?

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/attractive_girls_union_refuses_to

 

[jmfbahciv]

Patrick Scheible wrote:

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Here are the other specs of my vintage dream PC

1. OSes: Windows 3.0 [not 3.0a, just 3.0] and the most advanced
version of DOS fully compatible with the other softwares/hardwares in
my vintage dream PC.
[snip]

Windows 3.0?? More like my vintage nightmare PC.
Dammit! Windows is not, I repeat, NOT an OS.
For the version under discussion, yes, this is/was pretty much true.

Today, and for some time, it actually was/is an OS.

Not really. What do you think the terms NT and Vista exist?

Because "Windows" by itself is too vague to trademark. (And also to
designate specific releases.)

Monitor releases which is not the app.

In Windows 3.x, 95, 98, and ME, yes. In Windows NT, XP, and Vista,
the windows interface is inseparable from any other part of the OS.

I don't care if it's inseparable; that was a battle that Cutler
lost. Allowing the app to have hard wired roots in the monitor is,
probably, The source of all its bugs.

Putting the interface in the kernel is one of its design flaws.

That's because their developers didn't know how to do app code.
They were so used to having their way with putting app code
into the exec, that they thought they had to do the same with
VMS. that's one of the hard and fast rules that DEC didn't
tend to do....allow any old user mode code have direct read/write
access to exec code. That's why the bit gods invented UUOs and
CALLIs.


/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:15:54 -0700 (PDT), GreenXenon

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Why are you dreaming about PCs? A kid your age should be dreaming
about girls.

If he can't get a PC, what are his chances of getting a girl?

He already has a girl. She goes everywhere with him. She's easy to
travel with 'cause he deflates her whenever they're in transit.

Gee, in my experence it's not the girl that deflates.

/BAH

 

[Richard Cranium]

John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:15:54 -0700 (PDT), GreenXenon

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Why are you dreaming about PCs? A kid your age should be dreaming
about girls.

If he can't get a PC, what are his chances of getting a girl?

He already has a girl. She goes everywhere with him. She's easy to
travel with 'cause he deflates her whenever they're in transit.

Gee, in my experence it's not the girl that deflates.

/BAH

Well, preferred remedies available include Viagra, Cialis, Levitra,
Rhino Horn and blowjobs, but not necessarily in that order.

 

[Patrick Scheible]

Bill Leary wrote:
Patrick Scheible wrote:

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Here are the other specs of my vintage dream PC

1. OSes: Windows 3.0 [not 3.0a, just 3.0] and the most advanced
version of DOS fully compatible with the other softwares/hardwares in
my vintage dream PC.
[snip]

Windows 3.0?? More like my vintage nightmare PC.
Dammit! Windows is not, I repeat, NOT an OS.
For the version under discussion, yes, this is/was pretty much true.

Today, and for some time, it actually was/is an OS.
Not really. What do you think the terms NT and Vista exist?

Because "Windows" by itself is too vague to trademark. (And also to
designate specific releases.)

Monitor releases which is not the app.

The monitor and the interface are the same for late versions of
Windows. They are released together, sold together, and used together.

I don't care if it's inseparable; that was a battle that Cutler
lost. Allowing the app to have hard wired roots in the monitor is,
probably, The source of all its bugs.

Oh, Windows has so *many* bugs, I'd hate to ascribe all of them to
just *one* of its design flaws...

That's because their developers didn't know how to do app code.
They were so used to having their way with putting app code
into the exec, that they thought they had to do the same with
VMS. that's one of the hard and fast rules that DEC didn't
tend to do....allow any old user mode code have direct read/write
access to exec code. That's why the bit gods invented UUOs and
CALLIs.

The PC world did not learn from the mini and mainframe world very
much. Sacrifices that were arguably necessary to make usable systems
on affordable PCs in the late 70s-early 80s continued to be made in
the 90s and even today, when PCs are easily powerful enough for
separation between user code and monitor code.

-- Patrick

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

Well, preferred

So, you decided to invade this group with your 10 year old mentality
total retardation as well, you stupid bastard?

Grow up, RichTard. Your mental age is showing... again.

 

[Richard Cranium]

So, you decided to invade this group with your 10 year old mentality
total retardation as well, you stupid bastard?

Grow up, RichTard. Your mental age is showing... again.

Well, look who's here with his Archie nym - prickface emeritus.
You're the most powerful pro-abortion argument one could ever cite,
dipstick.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

Well, look who's here with his Archie nym - prickface emeritus.
You're the most powerful pro-abortion argument one could ever cite,
dipstick.

Twelve year old mentality retards like you do not make arguments, you
pissy little retarded bitch.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Twelve year old mentality retards like you do not make arguments, you
pissy little retarded bitch.

Sometimes, writing in twelve-year-old prose is the only way to ensure
you will understand. Come on chickenshit - try to solve the puzzle.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

Sometimes, writing in twelve-year-old prose

There is no sometimes, dumbfuck. You cannot write beyond your mental
age, and your mental age does not rise above that of an immature 12 year
old wussy boy... at best.

is the only way to ensure
you will understand. Come on chickenshit - try to solve the puzzle.

**** off. Die. Do it today. Do it now!

 

[Sylvia Else]

John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:15:54 -0700 (PDT), GreenXenon

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Why are you dreaming about PCs? A kid your age should be dreaming
about girls.

If he can't get a PC, what are his chances of getting a girl?

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/attractive_girls_union_refuses_to

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/geek_survey_results/


John

Unfortunately, females are genetically programmed to seek out males who
will allow the females to maximise the number of their descendants.
Males who are indifferent to the feelings of the woman, and simply
impregnate as many females as possible, will pass genes for that trait
onto their male offspring. Thus mating with such a male, while it may
lead to a life of drugery and unhappiness for a woman, will nevertheless
assist in maximising the number of her descendants.

Sylvia.

 

[Sylvia Else]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 13:03:54 +1000, Sylvia Else

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:15:54 -0700 (PDT), GreenXenon

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Why are you dreaming about PCs? A kid your age should be dreaming
about girls.
If he can't get a PC, what are his chances of getting a girl?


http://www.theonion.com/content/video/attractive_girls_union_refuses_to

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/geek_survey_results/


John

Unfortunately, females are genetically programmed to seek out males who
will allow the females to maximise the number of their descendants.
Males who are indifferent to the feelings of the woman, and simply
impregnate as many females as possible, will pass genes for that trait
onto their male offspring. Thus mating with such a male, while it may
lead to a life of drugery and unhappiness for a woman, will nevertheless
assist in maximising the number of her descendants.

Sylvia.

There are all sorts of reproductive strategies. In past centuries,
when we evolved, I think women also had to be seriously concerned
about whether the male would stay around to help feed and defend and
train the brats, so a "good provider" was maybe more important than a
hunky boy-toy. Similarly, it might be good to mate with a good
provider so *that* trait would be passed on.

Cuckolding is a tried and tested method for getting at least part of the
benefit of both traits. And the stick-around guy is the one who gets the
short straw.

I speak, of course, as a short un-gorgeous geek. I have wished I could
be a tall irresistible hunk-o-burning-love for just a month, to see
what it's like. OK, maybe for a year.

Admit it - you'd like to be a hunk for your entire life - just as long
as you didn't have to give up being a geek

Sylvia.

 

[jmfbahciv]

Bill Leary wrote:
Patrick Scheible wrote:

Hi:

My vintage dream PC contains the most advanced motherboard [in terms
of ability to handle the highest processor speed of it's type as well
as maximum RAM capability] that contains the most amount of 16-bit ISA
slots but does not contain any PCI or other non ISA also. It does not
even have any EISA or SCSI.

Here are the other specs of my vintage dream PC

1. OSes: Windows 3.0 [not 3.0a, just 3.0] and the most advanced
version of DOS fully compatible with the other softwares/hardwares in
my vintage dream PC.
[snip]

Windows 3.0?? More like my vintage nightmare PC.
Dammit! Windows is not, I repeat, NOT an OS.
For the version under discussion, yes, this is/was pretty much true.

Today, and for some time, it actually was/is an OS.
Not really. What do you think the terms NT and Vista exist?
Because "Windows" by itself is too vague to trademark. (And also to
designate specific releases.)

Monitor releases which is not the app.

The monitor and the interface are the same for late versions of
Windows. They are released together, sold together, and used together.

So what? It's still an app. Doesn't anybody realize that keeping
this distinction is important in design?

Oh, Windows has so *many* bugs, I'd hate to ascribe all of them to
just *one* of its design flaws...

I can safely state that it's the _source_ of most of the bugs. Think
about the mindset of the developers. It is more important to keep
the monitor running. If the app kills the exec code, you have
security risks up the ying-yang. If the app is separated from
the exec code via UUOs, it cannot destroy the core image of the
exec.

Then you can keep the app bugs separated from the monitor bugs.
The app may die but the integrity of the rest of the system
(think file structure and networks) stays steady.

/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

Well, look who's here with his Archie nym - prickface emeritus.
You're the most powerful pro-abortion argument one could ever cite,
dipstick.

Children, go play in another sandbox.

/BAH

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

Children, go play in another sandbox.

/BAH

A couple posts ago, you were having bathroom humor conversations with
the retarded, stalking bastard, so you are part of the problem the idiot
has.

Make up your mind. Do you have a brain or are you just like the rest?

 

[Richard Cranium]

On Fri, 22 May 2009 04:55:40 -0700, Archimedes' Lever

Make up your mind. Do you have a brain or are you just like the rest?

Aha - You are beginning to recognize that it's just "you" versus "the
rest"? You're all alone Archie. You are the only one who claims
incredible prowess in a range of subject matter that would make Clark
Kent keep his glasses on and stay away from telephone booths. You are
the exception to every rule. You da' man Archie; you 'da man!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Note that we don't know which sandbox is theirs. This is getting
crossposted to sci.electronics.design, alt.folklore.computers,
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt.

It doesn't matter Dave. Archie will never play in any sandbox because
cats keep covering him with the sand.

 

[Rich Grise]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/21/geek_survey_results/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

I speak, of course, as a short un-gorgeous geek. I have wished I could
be a tall irresistible hunk-o-burning-love for just a month, to see
what it's like. OK, maybe for a year.

It ain't worth it. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Patrick Scheible]

Note that we don't know which sandbox is theirs. This is getting
crossposted to sci.electronics.design, alt.folklore.computers,
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt.

jmfbahciv posts from alt.folklore.computers. I do too, and I second
her suggestion.

-- Patrick