#: 19630 S1/General Interest 20-Jan-94 22:48:06 Sb: #19624-#Microware in WSJ Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317 (X) >> Microware in WSJ Any chance of someone sending me a copy of the article?? There is 1 Reply. #: 19635 S1/General Interest 21-Jan-94 21:28:00 Sb: #19630-Microware in WSJ Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 If you have a fax I'll fax it to you. Frank #: 19629 S1/General Interest 20-Jan-94 18:31:15 Sb: Microware makes it big! Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317 To: all The following are some excerpts from the 1/18/94 article in The Wall Street Journal by Staff Reporter John J. Keller. Page B1. "Little Microware Aims to Be a Multimedia Giant" First it gives some background and then... "Little-known Microware has just landed a coveted piece of business. BELL ATLANTIC Corp., the regional Bell company, expects to distribute an interactive service to 10 million households by the turn of the century. It has placed orders for set-top boxes from three suppliers. All the boxes, in turn, rely on Microwares OS/9 software." More background about what and who Microware is and then later in the article... "Microware's OS/9 went head-to-head with a prototype from Microsoft called Modular Windows in a test by Bell Atlantic, says Arthur Orduna, a Microware marketing manager. he brags that OS/9 beat its rival. A Microsoft spokeswoman doesn't dispute this account." There is more to the article that I quoted here but it is important that Microware landed this contract for many reasons. It assures Microwares place in the future and thru them ours. By making OS/9 so visible it will make it easier for all of us to justify OS/9 to new users. The influx of money into Microware from this deal will likely help Microware provide new and important software in the future for all of us. It will also quiet those nay sayers who proclaim the demise of OS/9. Whether it will directly help those of us in the market now is yet to be seen. However in my mind this deal can only help to expand the market for OS/9 and therefore the slice of the pie that each vendor has can only increase. All in all this is a milestone for Microware and I congratulate all of those who worked long and hard to put this deal together. A hearty WELL DONE! Frank Hogg Frank Hogg Laboratory, Inc. 1/20/94 #: 19631 S7/Telecommunications 21-Jan-94 12:44:42 Sb: #18983-Novell Client for OS9 Fm: Gerhard Schumacher 100331,1572 To: Jacob "Koby" Avital 71172,2722 The German OS-9 distributor Dr.Keil GmbH offers the new software package NeWLink for OS-9 which includes Novell client software for OS-9 and a Netware 3.11 server NLM. #: 19627 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 19-Jan-94 23:55:42 Sb: Data Master Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762 To: All Hey, to anyone else out there who is using Data Master on the CoCo. Have any of you run into the same problem as I have, and perhaps found a solution? The problem is that when my file exceeds about 950 records, DM has problems with sorting. The sort seems to progress through its three phases (reading the key fields, sorting them, and writing the key file) but goes off into outer space when trying to return to the main program. My guess is that the key fields (or some memory used during sorting) is overwriting some essential stuff when it exceeds a certain size. The CoCo doesn't crash, but even the module header appears to get scribbled, since a PROCS no longer shows the module name or even the ID sometimes. Fortunately, the key file SEEMS to be written correctly, but recovery sometimes requires rebooting; a completely unacceptable bug. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I would happily change to something other than DM, but have found nothing else that will do the job (which requires, among other things, three-level sorts). #: 19628 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 20-Jan-94 04:00:57 Sb: #19623-CDI Computer News Fm: Eric Crichlow 71051,3516 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Bob, Some good looking suggestions there. I'll give them a try. However, as I'm starting to get a little anxious about the ability to pull out some faster performance, how about this... I see that memcpy () is quite a bit more efficient than I thought. However, it has to be written to check and deal with a number of situations, possibly some error checking, definitely a check of the length of the data to be moved so that it knows whether there will be a remainder if longword moves are performed that would require a final move.b and/or move.w. Since I know exactly what the size of each move will always be, and since I know it is divisible by 4, wouldn't I save some time in having a shortened, specialized version of memcpy() designed specifically for this task? And yes, I would definitely be interested in the disassembly of memcpy() if you can find it. > I don't believe that Kevin used the pixacc in the 68070 for that (or > anything else). Actually, its my understanding that he does use the PIXAC for the mouse pointer. I think it was Kevin himself who told me that. I have tried to get info on using the PIXAC from 'C'. Only one person had even played with it, and he'd done it in assembly, which I'm trying to avoid dealing with if at all possible. ..Thanks... ..Eric... #: 19626 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 19-Jan-94 16:13:07 Sb: #19620-UUCP for OSK Fm: ole hansen 100016,3417 To: David George 72240,134 Hello David The OS-9 TOP-package contains a UUCP and mail-reader(OXM) that works nice. I have used it for 4 years now. regards ole@danelec.dk #: 19632 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 21-Jan-94 16:23:00 Sb: #OSK Disk DeFragmenter Fm: James Truesdale [JBM] 71174,3442 To: All A company named Ark Systems USA in Santa Clara, CA sells a product named "disk squeezer" that defragments OS9/68000 disks. Does anyone here use this program? If so, does it work, cause any problems, etc., etc.? Thanks, -J There is 1 Reply. #: 19633 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 21-Jan-94 18:59:28 Sb: #19632-OSK Disk DeFragmenter Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 To: James Truesdale [JBM] 71174,3442 > A company named Ark Systems USA in Santa Clara, CA sells a product named > "disk squeezer" that defragments OS9/68000 disks. > > Does anyone here use this program? If so, does it work, cause any > problems, etc., etc.? I too have seen this product advertised but quite frankly the price, at $295 is quite steep for something I have never heard anything about. I notice also that Mark Griffith at DCCS has put SpeedDisk on the market. It is probably just as functional and is 1/3 the price. ------------------------------------ Zack C Sessions ColorSystems "I am Homer of Borg, prepare to be assimi ... OOOOHHH, DOUGHNUTS!" #: 19634 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 21-Jan-94 19:45:56 Sb: Ghostscript Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 To: ALL The Epson printer drivers in the latest Ghostscript version are not right. It would appear that I made a small blunder in assuming that they were the same as prev versions. The DeskJet driver and the new KWindows color display in the "gs2" upload are OK. I'll fix the epson stuff and re-upload as soon as I can, meanwhile, Epson owners beware. John R. Wainwright <> <> *********** InfoXpress ************ Press !>