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Topic: Almost 500 brand new IBM 8086 machines on Ebay! |
alibaba
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:12 am Subject: Almost 500 brand new IBM 8086 machines on Ebay! |
First of all, one drive controller is MFM or RLL, not the both. If I'm wrong, tell me.
I suppose your controller is MFM. So, your RLL drive works like MFM , because it is low level formatted like tha ... |
Topic: Almost 500 brand new IBM 8086 machines on Ebay! |
alibaba
Replies: 9
Views: 13460
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:06 am Subject: Almost 500 brand new IBM 8086 machines on Ebay! |
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Of course, RLL is old and a different technologie than IDE.
RLL drives are like MFM drives, except that they use diferent encoding to store data.
In fact, MFM drives could be used with R ... |
Topic: My laptop reads most data cd-r discs as Audio CDs.... |
alibaba
Replies: 8
Views: 12681
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:25 am Subject: My laptop reads most data cd-r discs as Audio CDs.... |
From my sources (cdrecord documentation), it seems that some old CD-ROM readers are only able to read compatibles manufatured CD's.
So, don't burm multi-session CD's to use with these, because they ... |
Topic: Sharing CPUs and memory? |
alibaba
Replies: 13
Views: 18983
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:34 am Subject: Re: Sharing CPUs and memory? |
In order to allow the more powerful systems to do anything with the video, I have to convert it to a form they can use. I get the best performance with uncompressed video, about 10 - 15 fps. If I co ... |
Topic: Sharing CPUs and memory? |
alibaba
Replies: 13
Views: 18983
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:01 am Subject: Sharing CPUs and memory? |
You can visit :
http://www.beowulf.org/overview/faq.html
-- This is a FAQ about beowulf.
I Don't think it's a good avenue for this kind of problem.
You will see that is mainly intended for p ... |
Topic: Sharing CPUs and memory? |
alibaba
Replies: 13
Views: 18983
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:54 pm Subject: Sharing CPUs and memory? |
You mean something like a Beowulf System for *NIX?
Never seen anything like it for Windoze...
Even more, I think the application needs to be specifically written to work for Beowulf System. |
Topic: To many Distros!!! |
alibaba
Replies: 6
Views: 10789
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:51 am Subject: To many Distros!!! |
Maybe it would be a good idea to read the installation manual that comes with your Linux distro CD.
It should reside somewhere in the directory "/doc". |
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