v070mvl4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Andrew D Szalasny) (11/21/90)
OK guys: A) as to the Atari ST being posted in the 8bit board..... I remember Tramiel buying Atari in '84 and all the old atari management popping up at commodore, and I remember the designer of the ANTIC chip creating a new and sophisticated chip for graphics and placing it in a new computer called the amiga.....so which computer is REALLY the next generation of atari....I don't consider the ST it.... So why post about stuff that doesn't even interface with the 8bit line (except as a printer buffer) in theis base.... Oh, I now own an IBM..... Ah the disk drive is the indus GT....great drive, but they went out of business ]just as the ST arrived I believe.....but did they ever come out with something I believe was called the Ethernet????? As to the DIRT program...3bit binary number stored in one byte?? if the number is in the last three bits, just AND #$10 that shoulddo it.... l8r ADS'90
scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) (11/21/90)
In article <47136@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v070mvl4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: > >Oh, I now own an IBM..... But you still kept your faithful old Atari, right? >Ah the disk drive is the indus GT....great drive, but they went out of business >]just as the ST arrived I believe.....but did they ever come out with something >I believe was called the Ethernet????? Uh, no. Ethernet is a term describing networking hardware. Originally developed by Xerox (???), it is now the de-facto standard in computer networking, at least in educational and DoD computing sites. The majority of the networks which make up the Internet are ethernet based. The network I am using to enter this message is an ethernet network. Chances are, yours is ethernet, also. If Indus came out with anything they called "ethernet" (which, if they did, I never heard of it), they blatantly stole the name (unless, of course, Indus made ethernet boards for 8-bit Ataris! ;-) Perhaps you're thinking of something else, like Synchromesh (a feature of Indus drives which sped up disk <-> computer SIO transfers by around 400%. > > >As to the DIRT program...3bit binary number stored in one byte?? > >if the number is in the last three bits, just > >AND #$10 >that shoulddo it.... > > > >l8r >ADS'90 > -- Scott Coleman tmkk@uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Quoth the Raven: 'Eat My Shorts!'" - Raven Bart, Simpsons' Halloween Special
gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu (Gary D Duzan) (11/22/90)
In article <1990Nov21.142243.13960@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) writes: =>In article <47136@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v070mvl4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: =>> =>>Oh, I now own an IBM..... => =>But you still kept your faithful old Atari, right? => =>>Ah the disk drive is the indus GT....great drive, but they went out of business =>>]just as the ST arrived I believe.....but did they ever come out with something =>>I believe was called the Ethernet????? => =>Perhaps you're thinking of something else, like Synchromesh (a feature of Indus =>drives which sped up disk <-> computer SIO transfers by around 400%. => I think there was another item released around then that allows several 8-bits to share disks, printer, etc. That might be what he was thinking if. Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] An isolated computer is a terribly lonely thing. [|o o|] |_O_| "Don't listen to me; I never do." -- Doctor Who |_O_|
dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) (11/22/90)
In article <47136@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v070mvl4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >.....so which computer is REALLY the next generation of atari.... The Commodore Amiga is technically the next machine after the 8-bit Atari. Don't believe me? Ask Jay Miner who designed the 800 then ask him who designed the Amiga... Officially, the ST is the next machine after the 800. I own an ST and 800, both are Atari, I support both machines, I'm happy with both machines... End of story. Dave.