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Re: line editors [message #402407 is a reply to message #402392] Tue, 24 November 2020 13:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Peter Flass is currently offline  Peter Flass
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Dennis Boone <drb@ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
>> Any idea why? 520 seems like an unusual size.
>
> 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.
>
> For the AS/400 family, some details are here:
> https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Ordinary_Harddisks_on_the_ AS/400
>
> For Prime, the additional 16 words are filesystem metadata: pointers to
> parent, next, previous, file type, etc.
>
> De
>

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 Go to previous messageGo to next message
scott is currently offline  scott
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drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
>> Any idea why? 520 seems like an unusual size.
>
> 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.
>
> For the AS/400 family, some details are here:
> https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Ordinary_Harddisks_on_the_ AS/400
>
> 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.
Re: line editors [message #402523 is a reply to message #402321] Mon, 30 November 2020 14:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jan van den Broek is currently offline  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:
>
>> Jan van den Broek wrote:
>>
>>> When using MS-Dos nowadays, I only use elvis
>>
>> What do you use MS-DOS for these days, out of curiosity?
>
> 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 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jan van den Broek is currently offline  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:
>>
>> 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).
>
> 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 #403086 is a reply to message #402239] Mon, 21 December 2020 12:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Andreas Kohlbach is currently offline  Andreas Kohlbach
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:14:35 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:35:37 -0000 (UTC)
> "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>> copy con prn
>
> Some kind of scam involving copies of porn sites ?

That you need to run on an M6809 (or others) CPU, which has SEX as an
opcode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX_(computing)
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Re: line editors [message #403116 is a reply to message #402058] Mon, 21 December 2020 18:00 Go to previous message
Peter Flass is currently offline  Peter Flass
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Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2020 21:04:28 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:35:37 +0000, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
>>
>>> Something about
>>>
>>> copy con prn
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> CTTY PRN
>
> City porn? Later made popular on TV with "Sex and the city".

Mabe Kitty Porn, funny pictures of cats.

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