Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #390
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Date:     Wed, 6 Jul 94 23:13:11 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #390, Volume #2                 Wed, 6 Jul 94 23:13:11 EDT

Contents:
  Re: How come I can't connect sockets between machines? (tim werner)
  Re: Need help building ultimate Linux system (Scott A. Laird)
  Re: WANTED: awkcc for Linux (Willing to pay $$) (EvroSystems)
  Re: dialup connections (Hans Petter Fasteng)
  Can't Get B: Floppy to work but A: OK. (Alan Rovner)
  Can't Get B: Floppy to work but A: OK. (Alan Rovner)
  Re: AMD 486 66mhz CPU w/ Linux? (Michael McDonnell)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
From: thx1139@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (tim werner)
Subject: Re: How come I can't connect sockets between machines?
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 14:52:50 GMT

In article <2vdj20$87k@industrial.com> jerry@industrial.com (Total Chaos) writes:
>You have to remember that intel is backwards compared to everyone else when
>it comes to byte order.

Not strictly true.  Intel is the same as all the DEC machines, including
DECstations, which use MIPS processors.  And, of course, the good old
PDP-series machines, and VAX as well.  These are all little-endian.

Its Motorola that's backwards, to me.  That's the chip in the Apples and
Sun-3's.  Sparc is also big-endian, and IBM mainframes.

To me it has always made more sense that the lower address would have the
lesser significance.  Probably just because my first assembly language
programming experience was on the PDP-11/45.

tw

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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: lair@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird)
Subject: Re: Need help building ultimate Linux system
Reply-To: lair@midway.uchicago.edu
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 22:12:53 GMT

In article <2veg0s$346@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>,
Byron A Jeff <byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>A couple of months ago I posted on the same subject. Unfortunately I missed
>the deadline so I couldn't order until now. 
>
>Synopsis: My research grant has equipment money. I convinced my advisor that
>a Linux system is essential to my research (It is: I'm doing sound/MIDI apps
>and being able to hack the sound driver is essential). I have the following
>items lined up already:
>
>- P5-90 MB with 512K cache with VLB, PCI, and ISA slots
>- ViewSonic 17 monitor
>- 32 MB of RAM
>- Misc stuff - keyboard, mouse, case
>

If any of these are still up for debate, the Idek MF-8617 has about
the same specs as the VS-17, plus a 0.26 mm dot pitch, and is about
$200 cheaper.  Mine's very nice.  Also, I have a system with the Opti
chipset and a Pentium-90, and the memory speed is pretty slow.  I get
about 26MB/sec to and from main memory, using one of the DOS memory
test programs.  The internal cache gives almost 400MB/sec.  This seems
very slow to me, but I don't have any other reference points.  Since
all of the VL-PCI Pentium motherboards I've heard of recently use the
Opti chipset, you might want to watch out.


>I have about $1000 or so left to spend and I need the following:
>
>- Video card. Must be able to do 1280x1024 NI at 72 Hz or better.

The #9GXE64 (not pro) with 2 Mb is about $250 or so, and should do
1280 at 75 Hz or so.  It will work with the hacked 2.1.1 server around
or with 3.1, when it's released.  The #9GXE64pro should be faster, but
it doesn't work yet.  The ATI Graphics Ultra Pro's a bit slower, but
should support 16-bit color sooner, if that's important to you.

>- SCSI host adapter. Which is best? PCI, VLB, or ISA?

The PCI NCR SCSI controllers should be nice, assuming that Drew's
driver actually works right.  I heard that you can get a PCI card with
the 53c810 for about $80 or so.  The Buslogic 445 (VLB) is supposed to
work fine, and their PCI card works for some people, but not others.

>- SCSI disk. The University can purchase 340Mb SCSI drives no problem.
>- CDROM

The Toshiba 4101 is about $200, and that's about as cheap of a SCSI
CD-ROM drive as you're going to find.

>- Ethernet cards. I'm going with Don Becker's AMD PCNet/Lance card 
>  recommendation here.

If that's what he recommends, who are we to disagree?

>
>The catch is that I have to purchase each of the above items on purchase
>orders. That means the total cost cannot exceed $300 for each item.
>
>Anyway the video and SCSI cards are the most problematic items on my list.
>Recommendations welcome.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>

Not a problem.


Scott.



-- 
Scott A. Laird            |  "But this goes to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615"
lair@midway.uchicago.edu  |                - Nigel on his 64-bit computer


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From: evro@access1.digex.net (EvroSystems)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c,alt.lang.awk
Subject: Re: WANTED: awkcc for Linux (Willing to pay $$)
Date: 6 Jul 1994 22:16:16 GMT

If it helps, I've seen ads for awk->c converters in the back of Dr. 
Dobb's and/or C User's Journal off and on for a number of months.

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From: hansp@oslonett.no (Hans Petter Fasteng)
Subject: Re: dialup connections
Date: 6 Jul 1994 17:05:34 +0200

  Hm@seneca.Ix.De,
  In a message on 3 July, wrote :

hm> Hans Petter Fasteng (hansp@oslonett.no) wrote:
hm> : > Is there a tool developed for this kind of things, or do I have to st
hm> : > own little project?
hm> 
hm> Before you do that, it's much simpler to set up UUCP on all of your machi
hm> 
hm> -- 
hm> Harald Milz                             office: hm@ix.de
hm> iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine      home:   hm@seneca.ix.de
hm> Opinions are mine, not my employer's -- the answer is Forty-two
hm>

   I know that UUCP will make life easier, but the problem is the
administrators of the 2 other systems are not willing to set up (provide
UUCP for me), I have to put my work up on mouth, and at night time, and
thats a little late for me since I have to waik myself  up in the morning
and go to sleep when it is finished.  I found pcomm, that will solve the
problem, it can be started and will run a script from command line, but it
will not compile under my linux (it asks about term.h). and the term.h in
my linux is not the one it asks about.

-hans
   
...
 * ATP/Linux 1.42 *   Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
                     

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From: alanr@lacamas.pen.tek.com (Alan Rovner)
Subject: Can't Get B: Floppy to work but A: OK.
Date: 27 Jun 1994 02:29:23 GMT

Hi folks, can anyone help get my B: floppy working?  Or is it /dev/fd1?
I've been a DOS user too long :-).  I can properly mount and access my
/dev/fd0 drive just fine, no problems.  My /dev/fd1 gives me these error
messages:

floppy I/O error
dev 0201, sector 0
floppy I/O error
dev 0201, sector 0
MSDOS bread failed
mount: wrong fs type, /dev/fd1 already mounted, /mnt busy or other error

My setup is:
        * Running Yggdrasil Summer '94 kernel
        * /dev/fd0 is a Teac 1.2 MB unit
        * /dev/fd1 is a Teac 1.44 MB unit
        * Also attached in the floppy cable is a Irwin Accutrak 250 Tape.

I tried disconnecting the tape drive, and that made no difference.  One
thing that interesting (if it matters) is /dev/fd0 shows up with a June 17
date, while /dev/fd1 shows up with a July 21, 1993 date?  Don't know what
that's all about.

As usual, I appreciate any suggestions and would like to get this thing 
fixed soon.  Thanks for your help.

Al Rovner
alanr@lacamas.pen.tek.com

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From: alanr@lacamas.pen.tek.com (Alan Rovner)
Subject: Can't Get B: Floppy to work but A: OK.
Date: 27 Jun 1994 02:29:23 GMT

Hi folks, can anyone help get my B: floppy working?  Or is it /dev/fd1?
I've been a DOS user too long :-).  I can properly mount and access my
/dev/fd0 drive just fine, no problems.  My /dev/fd1 gives me these error
messages:

floppy I/O error
dev 0201, sector 0
floppy I/O error
dev 0201, sector 0
MSDOS bread failed
mount: wrong fs type, /dev/fd1 already mounted, /mnt busy or other error

My setup is:
        * Running Yggdrasil Summer '94 kernel
        * /dev/fd0 is a Teac 1.2 MB unit
        * /dev/fd1 is a Teac 1.44 MB unit
        * Also attached in the floppy cable is a Irwin Accutrak 250 Tape.

I tried disconnecting the tape drive, and that made no difference.  One
thing that interesting (if it matters) is /dev/fd0 shows up with a June 17
date, while /dev/fd1 shows up with a July 21, 1993 date?  Don't know what
that's all about.

As usual, I appreciate any suggestions and would like to get this thing 
fixed soon.  Thanks for your help.

Al Rovner
alanr@lacamas.pen.tek.com

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From: mmcdonne@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Michael McDonnell)
Subject: Re: AMD 486 66mhz CPU w/ Linux?
Date: 6 Jul 1994 19:11:11 GMT

P. Marshall Herington (gt0804b@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:
: Please forgive me if this FAQ food, but does anyone know or have any
: experiance with Linux and the AMD 486 DX2 66mhz CPU?  I am considering
: upgrading my motherboard to this CPU, and I want to be sure I can
: still use Linux with it.  At less than $300 U.S., it seem like a good
: way to up the performance of my machine, with out the $600 + for the
: same Intel part.

I have an AMD 486DX2-66... no problems.  It works fine.  

--
==============================================
Shine On!                    Michael McDonnell
mmcdonne@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~mmcdonne/home.html
==============================================

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