--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500007 Date: 03/31/98 From: EDDY THILLEMAN Time: 09:36pm \/To: GREG COBB (Read 3 times) Subj: PS/2- or serial mouse? Hi Greg, 30 Mar 98, Greg Cobb of 1:123/434 wrote to Eddy Thilleman: GC> A PS/2 mouse doesn't use a com port, I know that. :) GC> and usually resides on IRQ 11 or 12. And does it use an adres too? Cheers, Eddy ... * <- Tribble /| _ *\ <- Tribble K.O. & Tribble in neutral corner --- MBM v4.14 * Origin: Speedy Gonsalez (2:500/143.7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500008 Date: 03/26/98 From: ANDREW GRILLET Time: 01:36pm \/To: LYNN NASH (Read 3 times) Subj: Motherboards and os/2 Hi Lynn, -=> On 22 Mar 98 00:06:00 Lynn Nash said to Jonathan Michaels <=- LN> K6 is from AMD by the way. It is a very good chip but I worry if AMD LN> can hold the line. They just reported again, for another quarter, LN> that they are still losing money on each chip that they ship, due LN> of manufacturing yield problems. Their bail out deal for IBM to make LN> chips for them is still months away. Intel on the otherhand says LN> their yields are better than planned. Seeing blood, Intel has LN> announced a 20 percent price decrease on most of their chips. If AMD LN> has to reduce their prices another 20 percent and they are losing LN> money at the current levels, big trouble is brewing for them. It is LN> already bad enough that their credit rating was lowered last week. However, AMD are major manufacturers of other types of chip than just CPUs, like EPROM, memory drivers, buffers, drivers, gates and PALs. They are often the preferred supplier of these parts, on grounds of quality. They may well be capable of sustaining a loss indefinitely on CPUs if they want. (Perhaps retaining the product to keep their chip designers in the leading edge). Having said that, I have no idea what proportion of their turnover derives from which product. I just specify their PALs at work. Andrew ... Congress: Latin from: 'con' (a swindle) and 'digress' (off subject). --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Me/2 (2:254/259) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500009 Date: 03/27/98 From: GEORGE WHITE Time: 11:49pm \/To: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLAR (Read 3 times) Subj: 75MHz Motherboards Hi Jonathan, You wrote to Will Honea: JDBP> WH> Average power capacity was fine, but the transient response JDBP> WH> wasn't good enough. The new boards use regulators to step down the JDBP> WH> 5 volts to 2.9 - 3.5 volts (depending on the CPU) and some just JDBP> WH> use linear regulators hence the current spikes kill the 5 volt JDBP> WH> supply to the rest of the system got too noisy. JDBP>The FIC PA 2012 uses a switching voltage regulator. I'm told that that is JDBP>good, although I have yet to find an explanation as to why. Because they generate a lot less heat than a linear one and so need much smaller heatsinks. Which is why the main power supply uses switching regulators. George * SLMR 2.1a * Wastebasket: Something to throw things near. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: DoNoR/2,Woking UK (44-1483-717905) (2:440/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500010 Date: 03/28/98 From: ANDREW GRILLET Time: 10:42am \/To: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD (Read 3 times) Subj: 75MHz Motherboards Hi Jonathan, -=> On 21 Mar 98 12:28:54 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard said to Will Honea <=- JdBP> The FIC PA 2012 uses a switching voltage regulator. I'm told that JdBP> that is good, although I have yet to find an explanation as to why. Because it uses less power and *generates less heat*. Andrew ... I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Me/2 (2:254/259) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500011 Date: 04/04/98 From: DON WOODALL Time: 02:32pm \/To: JIM DAVIE (Read 3 times) Subj: Two questions In a message dated 04-03-98, Jim Davie said to Don Woodall: JD>+---------------------------------------------------------------JD>+- In a reply to DON WOODALL on 04-03-98 regarding Two questions JD> JD>DWX If you don't need to run any DOS/WIN programs in a DOS JD> X window, Matrox would be fine. If you do want to run stuff JD> X in a DOS window, I recommend an ELSA video card. ELSA is JD> X still supporting OS/2 with good drivers. Matrox is just JD> X sitting on old, not quite perfect OS/2 drivers. JD> JD>Don, JD> JD>What problems are you having with running DOS/WIN programs in JD>a window using the Matrox card? I have a Millenium with 4MB JD>and don't have any problems (that I know of) with this card. JD>They are currently at V2.14 which was just recently released. JD> JD>Thanks! JD> Jim I had a catalog/inventory WIN 3.1 program my supplier madge available to me. Oops. I had/have the 2MB Matrox Millennium. Whenever I would exit the program my video would be corrupted. You know a screen of cursor sized rectangles of color covering the rainbow of colors blinking and flashing at me. At the time my only known solution was to crash out of OS/2, reboot to the maintenance partition, "chkdsk" all the partitions, and then to reboot into the main OS/2 partition. Don Woodall ___ * MR/2 * If you want it done right, forget Microsoft. --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500012 Date: 04/04/98 From: DON WOODALL Time: 02:39pm \/To: GEORGE FLIGER (Read 3 times) Subj: Two questions In a message dated 04-03-98, George Fliger said to Don Woodall: GF>On 1 Apr 98 07:29am, Don Woodall wrote to Ken Schafer: GF> GF> DW> In a message dated 03-28-98, Ken Schafer said to All: GF> GF>KS>Hi All GF>KS> GF>KS>I have 2 questions... GF>KS> GF>KS>1. Currently I'm using a 3D Blaster PCI video card for GF>KS>which I don't have an OS/2 driver. Is there one available? GF>KS> GF>KS>2. If not, what card would you replace the thing with? Matrox GF>KS>sounds like fun. GF>KS> GF> GF> DW> If you don't need to run any DOS/WIN programs in a DOS GF> DW> window, Matrox would be fine. If you do want to run stuff GF> DW> in a DOS window, I recommend an ELSA video card. ELSA is GF> DW> still supporting OS/2 with good drivers. Matrox is just GF> DW> sitting on old, not quite perfect OS/2 drivers. GF> GF>Matrox issued new OS/2 drivers for their Millenium II and GF>Mystique cards in December, 1997 so I would say they're "old". GF> George If you are referring to the version 2.14 of the drivers, you are wrong. It is at that time that I changed from the Matrox to the ELSA card. I called Matrox and they claimed no knowledge of the version 2.14 drivers and told me that if I wanted to talk to them I MUST remove them and RE-INSTALL the version 2.13 as this was the "official and supported" version of the drivers. The version 2.14 is an IBM hack of the drivers. It is a hack that works better than the "official" drivers, but it is still a hack in the eyes of Matrox because they did not write them, will not acknowledge that they exist, and will not give their customers any support if they are using them. Don Woodall ___ * MR/2 * PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms. --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4500013 Date: 04/04/98 From: NICKY MORROW Time: 11:44am \/To: ELI KRAKOVSKY (Read 3 times) Subj: Can anybody help me? Hello Eli! > I've just bought sound card ExpertColor MED3201 with AMD WaveTable. > With this card I got InterWave drivers for DOS/Win3.11/WIN'95. Can > anybody write me, where to find consequent drivers for OS/2 Warp > 4.0 (AKA Merlin). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in > advance. This is not a card or make that I recognize which means you'll need to tell us what chipset it uses before we can foster a guess. The best idea is to get a good sound card that has very good drivers for OS/2: Crystal TidalWave 128 Acer AW35 Pro The TidalWave 128 is availble at J3 and the Aw35 is available at Indelible Blue. Cheers, Nicky Internet: nrmorrow@cybertron.com --- FleetStreet 1.22+ * Origin: Emerald Coast/2 * Navarre,FL * (904)939-5242 * (1:366/47) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00000 Date: 04/05/98 From: AUGUST ABOLINS Time: 10:33am \/To: IAN SINGER (Read 3 times) Subj: pressure sensitive mouse devices Hi Ian! On 04-03-1998 at 07:11:00PM, Ian Singer (1:250/462) wrote to August Abolins: IS> What ever it loads normally for a serial mouse on comm2 is fine. WOuld IS> be nice though if a mouse could be on comm 3 or 4 but dont think IS> thats possible. I think it *is* with the SERIAL=COMx paramter. Take a look at what "help mouse" brings up. ;) .: /|ug --- FleetStreet 1.22+ * Origin: -- eXpress_><_conneXions -- bancroft, ontario (1:163/144) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F4A00001 Date: 04/01/98 From: ANDREW GRILLET Time: 07:13am \/To: DAVID PAGE (Read 3 times) Subj: OS/2 & Modem Hi David, -=> On 29 Mar 98 21:06:04 David Page said to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <=- DP> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Robert Klose: DP> Just think; an TRUE example of multiproccesing, since the keyboard DP> procesor can run at the same time as the system processor. Imagine DP> what just a little more of this kind of thinking could do. An 80186 DP> compatible processor is very cheap as part of an ASIC, and blows away DP> the original keyboard processor, which was markedly inferior to an DP> 8088. Such a processor could run a whole array of serial ports, for DP> example. That is what Apricot did (in the F1 and portable, I think). It broke all manner of software, and they never got past DOS 2.x as a result. The success of the PC is due to one thing, and one thing only: it is a standard. (lets face it, there is not much else in its favour). Of couse Seymour Cray used PDP8s as the interface to the CDC6400 and 6600 machines, and they were great. Theyn worked something like SCSI channels. A PDP8 has about the same power as a 8088 I would say (but most of the software for it was better written). I think you can still get them on a single chip too! To return to topic ... if you are going to have IO processors on a PC the nly standard way to do it is SCSI ... Lets pray for SCSI keyboard and mouse (and printer) support (but don't hold your breath). Andrew ... Big on NATURAL foods? 80% of people die of NATURAL causes! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Me/2 (2:254/259)