/ INFO-VAX	Tue, 02 Jan 2001	Volume 2001 : Issue 3       Contents:- Re: Alpha nonstrategy, was Re: Happy Holidays  FILESERV@WKU: New PQM ! Re: Flackey fibre channel support  OT: Happy New Years  Re: OT: Happy New Years  VR241 monitor and S-video  Re: VR241 monitor and S-video  Re: VR241 monitor and S-video   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------    Date: 02 Jan 2001 05:18:53 +0800, From: Paul Repacholi <prep@prep.synonet.com>6 Subject: Re: Alpha nonstrategy, was Re: Happy Holidays0 Message-ID: <87n1db7yyq.fsf@k9.prep.synonet.com>  . Jack Patteeuw <jjpatteeuw@voyager.net> writes:   ...  > EV8 is out "Great White Hope"   = You jest I trust? The EV8 will slash the cost of the Wildfire : boxen, and there will be a small number of ppl who move to9 them from ES40 and DS20s. Under that, it will be the EV69 ! that will make or break things...   < Samsung have the UP1100. Alpha plus an AMD Irongate, so that? gives an existance proof of Alpha-PC common sourcing and higher < volumes. Compaq doing an Iceberg/DS20 and Iceberg ES40 wouldA help drive costs down all over. Might even result in them selling ? a few of their servers that they can't seem to give away at the : moment. 8000 sales for 2000 was the report. For the wintel; mass market, that is as near non-existant as you would want  to go.     --  < Paul Repacholi                               1 Crescent Rd.,7 +61 (08) 9257-1001                           Kalamunda. @                                              West Australia 6076. Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.   ------------------------------  # Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:20:12 GMT - From: goathunter@goatley.com (Hunter Goatley)  Subject: FILESERV@WKU: New PQM0 Message-ID: <3a512c4a.28135136@swen.process.com>  B Jeremy Begg has contributed PQM (Print Queue Manager for Users andA Operators) to the WKU FILESERV freeware archives.  PQM lets users D see and delete their print jobs via a GUI (SMG$) interface.  Runs on both VAX and Alpha.    You can find it on:   ! http://www2.wku.edu/www/fileserv/   & ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/pqm.zip2 ftp://ftp.tmk.com/ftp-wku-edu/vms/fileserv/pqm.zip. ftp://ftp.process.com/wku/vms/fileserv/pqm.zip   Hunter ------9 Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/ 9 goathunter@goatley.com     http://www.goatley.com/hunter/    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:57:50 +0000 , From: Dave Brennan <dave@lugano.demon.co.uk>* Subject: Re: Flackey fibre channel support8 Message-ID: <gd525tk9t2cp44hn4imt0gnh9dukf03bhs@4ax.com>  ! Some updates for questions asked.    Our VMS Version is 7.21h1.  F Patch wise we are completely up to date, on the test machine, and have@ received an unreleased patch to "Stop machines crashing on fibre channel problems"   & Yes we are using host based shadowing.  E At the moment we can only fix the seperation issue by forcing the set , members to use MSCP over the wide area link.  E The problem that we see is that traditionally when the wide area link  was lost you lost everything.   F We now have the posibility of loss of wide area fibre channel, but not1 the Gigabit link that keeps the cluster together.   E The current view I am getting out of Compaq is that the fibre support  will really firm up at 7.3-1.   > So is it really true that some of you guys are running mission critical over wide area.       Dave Brennan    / ----------------------------------------------- / Dave Brennan          <dave@lugano.demon.co.uk>   $ Universe saving by appointment only!0 ------------------------------------------------   ------------------------------  # Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:48:18 GMT * From: "Nikita V. Belenki" <kit@nospam.net> Subject: OT: Happy New Years; Message-ID: <mz946.4337$1%2.216754@sjc-read.news.verio.net>   : "JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@videotron.ca> wrote in message& news:3A50BFB8.77403E6C@videotron.ca...  ; > (remember, the internet is global in nature, SI rules...)   E Internet may be global in nature, but SI sucks. CGS (Gaussian) rules.    Kit. kit # kits.net   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:47:40 -0800 # From: Mark Tarka <markZERO@mcn.net>   Subject: Re: OT: Happy New Years# Message-ID: <3A51414C.4D58@mcn.net>    Nikita V. Belenki wrote:< > "JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@videotron.ca> wrote in message( > news:3A50BFB8.77403E6C@videotron.ca...= > > (remember, the internet is global in nature, SI rules...) G > Internet may be global in nature, but SI sucks. CGS (Gaussian) rules.   = CGS (Gaussian) = fat, as opposed to CGS (Lorentzian) = thin ?     :   Mark (AFAIK, they're statistical distribution functions)   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:35:32 -0500 2 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" <DRAGON@compuserve.com>" Subject: VR241 monitor and S-video7 Message-ID: <200101011435_MC2-C04C-1822@compuserve.com>   H         The VR241 is pretty close to a hopeless case.  "Dragon" graphicsJ was 1024x868 or something like that.  A very good multi-synch monitor mig= htC sync up on it (or not).  I don't know of anything that outputs that J resolution other than the VT240/340 and those early VAXstations that used=   the Dragon chipset.   J         I suspect that you could buy a 15" SVGA monitor for less than wha= t F it would cost you to cobble together something that would display on a VR241!        Message text written by JF Mezei >Ok, not quite VMS related...   F I have a VR241 colour monitor (from a VT-241 terminal) that sits there unusedC and in perfect condition. I have NTSC composite and S-video from my 	 macintosh . (for video input/output, not for the monitor).  J Is it worth looking for the pin-outs of S-video to see if it has stuff li= keH synch, R G and B signals that would work with such a monitor, or is that truly  a hopeless case ?  <    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 15:48:24 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@videotron.ca> & Subject: Re: VR241 monitor and S-video, Message-ID: <3A50ED14.E46D8D5F@videotron.ca>   "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote: L >         I suspect that you could buy a 15" SVGA monitor for less than whatH > it would cost you to cobble together something that would display on a > VR241!  N I know I can take composite video from my VCR and plug it into all three R G BN plugs of the VR241 and I get a nice black and white picture (since all R G and5 B are equal). It gets its sync from the Green signal.   J So I was just wondering if S-video provides separate R B G signals I could@ feed into that monitor. It is after all just a Sony RGB monitor.   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:21:34 -0500 , From: "Glenn C. Everhart" <Everhart@GCE.com>& Subject: Re: VR241 monitor and S-video' Message-ID: <3A50E6CE.5C8F1AC7@GCE.com>   > I got one of these beasts several years ago and have driven itD from my Amiga 1000, which generates TV signal output. It can be usedB for a very nice TV monitor but is capable of horizontal freqs onlyC in the 15KHz range, well below what most PCs use. Just go ahead and > feed it NTSC and you and it should be happy. It might take theC other stuff; it uses synch on green, which Amiga happily generates, C but may do other stuff. Interlaced you can get VGA type resolutions = on it, very nearly (a little more horizontally, a little less < vertically as I recall, with the Amiga set on fairly extreme
 overscan.)  C I have never seen one actually doing 1024 pixels horizontal, do not  believe it can.    Glenn Everhart   Richard B. Gilbert wrote:  > J >         The VR241 is pretty close to a hopeless case.  "Dragon" graphicsM > was 1024x868 or something like that.  A very good multi-synch monitor might E > sync up on it (or not).  I don't know of anything that outputs that K > resolution other than the VT240/340 and those early VAXstations that used  > the Dragon chipset.  > L >         I suspect that you could buy a 15" SVGA monitor for less than whatH > it would cost you to cobble together something that would display on a > VR241! > " > Message text written by JF Mezei > >Ok, not quite VMS related...  > H > I have a VR241 colour monitor (from a VT-241 terminal) that sits there > unusedE > and in perfect condition. I have NTSC composite and S-video from my  > macintosh 0 > (for video input/output, not for the monitor). > M > Is it worth looking for the pin-outs of S-video to see if it has stuff like J > synch, R G and B signals that would work with such a monitor, or is that > truly  > a hopeless case ?  > <    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2001.003 ************************