On 2022-06-23, Kurt Weiske <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-11mi-this> wrote:
> AS/400 terminal session via twinax, and run Word and Excel natively - with 8

"twinax". Now there's a word I haven't seen, in that context, for awhile.

I worked for a manufacturing company that finally got off the AS/400 in 2005.
That twinax was never removed from the walls, and it is the kind of stout stuff
that will probably be around until the sun goes nova...

I had a real moment of confusion when I first heard of Twinax being used for
10Gb copper Ethernet. Weird echoes, that.

John

On 24/06/2022 14:20, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:52:31 GMT
> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
>
>> The 16550 or 16450? The 16550 came later and added a 16 byte FIFO for
>> inbound characters;
>
> Then the 16550A came out with the bugs fixed. With them on two 16
> port cards I managed to run 32 modems at 19200 on a 50MHz 486 without
> dropping a byte.
>

I ran 4 channels on a '186 along with networking once on an embedded
system. No problem at all.

The problem wasn't handling the interrupts, it wass coexisting with
someone else's software that goes non-interruptible.

Andy

Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> writes:

> On Tue, 17 May 2022 10:47:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>
>
>> Can't imagine actually wanting a tube CRT in my house.
>
> One of the current hot nerd topics is the idea of putting together retro-
> futuristic cyberdeck devices as secondary or project devices. Cyberdecks
> are machines with tiny lcd screens with nearly full sized keyboards.

I would think that a cyberdeck would be no good without a set of 'trodes
to induct the display right into your brain? :-)

A computer with a nearly full-sized keyboard but an unusably small LCD
display doesn't sound like much fun to me. What am I missing?

On 2022-09-04 23:00, Bud Frede wrote:
> Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 17 May 2022 10:47:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Can't imagine actually wanting a tube CRT in my house.
>>
>> One of the current hot nerd topics is the idea of putting together retro-
>> futuristic cyberdeck devices as secondary or project devices. Cyberdecks
>> are machines with tiny lcd screens with nearly full sized keyboards.
>
> I would think that a cyberdeck would be no good without a set of 'trodes
> to induct the display right into your brain? :-)
>
> A computer with a nearly full-sized keyboard but an unusably small LCD
> display doesn't sound like much fun to me. What am I missing?

Queue Terry Gilliam... Hello fresnel lens. :-D

Johnny

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 00:01:04 +0200, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
wrote:
>On 2022-09-04 23:00, Bud Frede wrote:
>> Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 May 2022 10:47:20 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can't imagine actually wanting a tube CRT in my house.
>>>
>>> One of the current hot nerd topics is the idea of putting together retro-
>>> futuristic cyberdeck devices as secondary or project devices. Cyberdecks
>>> are machines with tiny lcd screens with nearly full sized keyboards.
>>
>> I would think that a cyberdeck would be no good without a set of 'trodes
>> to induct the display right into your brain? :-)
>>
>> A computer with a nearly full-sized keyboard but an unusably small LCD
>> display doesn't sound like much fun to me. What am I missing?
>
>Queue Terry Gilliam... Hello fresnel lens. :-D
>
> Johnny

If you want to see small lcd screens and a large keyboard:

https://www.adafruit.com/

--
Jim