doug@certes.UUCP (07/12/87)
Welcome to the net, Scotty! Congratulations on your extended series of interesting (and non-flaming!) postings. Everyone should follow the example of this reformed net-arsonist, and remember: only YOU can prevent usenet fires! There continues to be much interest in Excalibur on local BBS's, and rumors that the folks on Genie have wondered where Scotty and Excalibur have gotten to. What's the scoop? Can we still look forward to a public domain SCSI controller? Doug Merritt ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug Don't trust "reply", use the above address when emailing.
scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) (07/18/87)
I seem to pickup rumors about my activities about as easily as I call down lightening for what I say... Excalibur is at the artwork-needs-to-be-done stage. The design is complete, and has been, for a couple months now. I've just had alot of stuff weighing on me these past few months. So yes, Excalibur WILL be completed. Support for it is STILL going to be done only on GEnie. This may sound like a ploy to gain GEnie some Amiga users, but being a non-profit item I'm not going to spend time trying to support it all over the place. And usenet costs me about $9 an hour for access (GEnie is $5, FCC willing). AND I can post an ARC'd file there without getting all these E-Mails saying "Your arc was damaged can you send it to me?" I've been getting SO MANY requests for copies of scottdisk.device due to wacked arc's I'm about ready to re-post it, except to comp.sources.amiga of course. Arthur, the fast file system, has recently gotten a boost. I've cut a deal to get my paws on a WORKING file system that is VERY VERY VERY nice. It handles the tough issue of allocating contiguous blocks for files as they grow, rather than sorting seeks (as Andy is doing for 1.3) after the fact. It also has built in KSAM and ISAM for dem dat wants it and uses a B+ tree for directory structure. And, ;), it can also read/write more than one block at a time. It doesn't have double sided files, but I won't hold that against it till I can get them hacked in. Due to the KSAM and ISAM there will have to be an arthur.library, but I wanted one anyway (I want a SETDATETIME that works off a filehandle for example!) Scott Turner -- UUCP-stick: stride!l5comp!scotty | If you want to injure my goldfish just make UUCP-auto: scotty@l5comp.UUCP | sure I don't run up a vet bill. GEnie: JST | "The bombs drop in 5 minutes" R. Reagan Disclaimer? I own L5 Computing. Isn't that enough?