Re: line editors [message #402407 is a reply to message #402392] |
Tue, 24 November 2020 13:01 |
Peter Flass
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Dennis Boone <drb@ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
>> Any idea why? 520 seems like an unusual size.
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> Typically, these sorts of odd (and not power-of-two) sizes are used to
> include additional per-sector metadata. Generally the actual data
> content of such a sector is sized to a power of two.
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> For the AS/400 family, some details are here:
> https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Ordinary_Harddisks_on_the_ AS/400
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> For Prime, the additional 16 words are filesystem metadata: pointers to
> parent, next, previous, file type, etc.
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> De
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That’s a LOT of overhead per block!
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Re: line editors [message #402410 is a reply to message #402392] |
Tue, 24 November 2020 13:54 |
scott
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drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
>> Any idea why? 520 seems like an unusual size.
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> Typically, these sorts of odd (and not power-of-two) sizes are used to
> include additional per-sector metadata. Generally the actual data
> content of such a sector is sized to a power of two.
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> For the AS/400 family, some details are here:
> https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Ordinary_Harddisks_on_the_ AS/400
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> For Prime, the additional 16 words are filesystem metadata: pointers to
> parent, next, previous, file type, etc.
And for oracle, it was error correcting codes.
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Re: line editors [message #402523 is a reply to message #402321] |
Mon, 30 November 2020 14:52 |
Jan van den Broek
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Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:07:53 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> schrieb:
> Niklas Karlsson wrote:
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>> Jan van den Broek wrote:
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>>> When using MS-Dos nowadays, I only use elvis
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>> What do you use MS-DOS for these days, out of curiosity?
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> The last time I used actual DOS (freeDOS rather than MS-DOS) was for a
> firmware upgrade, maybe Jan meant a windows CMD process rather DOS?
See also my other post, it's a machine with MS-DOS 5.0.
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Re: line editors [message #402524 is a reply to message #402317] |
Mon, 30 November 2020 14:47 |
Jan van den Broek
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20 Nov 2020 06:53:47 GMT
Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> schrieb:
> On 2020-11-19, Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> When using MS-Dos nowadays, I only use elvis, I've forgotten how e.com
>> works, and haven't found the helpfile (which I must have somewhere on a
>> different machine).
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> What do you use MS-DOS for these days, out of curiosity?
Primarily the machine ('93) still works.
Recently I'm mostly using if for ZX81- and Spectrumemulation. It's also
connected, by RS232, to a FreeBSD 2.2.5-machine, and a Raspberry Pi.
And I've some older, still not ported stuff on it.
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Re: line editors [message #403116 is a reply to message #402058] |
Mon, 21 December 2020 18:00 |
Peter Flass
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Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2020 21:04:28 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
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>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:35:37 +0000, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
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>>> Something about
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>>> copy con prn
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>> Nope.
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>> CTTY PRN
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> City porn? Later made popular on TV with "Sex and the city".
Mabe Kitty Porn, funny pictures of cats.
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