OT: Good place to ask about XP memory problems

[Andy Burns]

's wrong with that? Sounds like the chap had a reasonable understanding of his new system :-P

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Andy Champ writes

Yes. It was intended to make it possible to drop a 386sx into 286 boards with little or no modification.

There were lots of aftermarket 'go-faster' 386sx upgrades for 286 machines.

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Bob Eager writes

he said 'line', so that includes the DX, DX2 and (the misnamed) DX4.

[Tim Streater]

Well, he *was* a PC support engineer. It's why I picked the Mac over PCs back in the early 90s and have seen no reason since to change my mind (although things are much better that they were then).

The experience he describes is similar to one that happened in the office next to mine when I was working in the US. Bloke wanted to plug in a sound card, ended up having to get the building's PC expert to send/receive faxes to/from the vendor of the disk controller too. Took all morning - I just walked past from time to time smiling quietly to myself.

[Reentrant]

I still have the "yellow card" S/370 Reference Summary somewhere. I was a software engineer at IBM from '75 to '84 and spent every working hour poring over customer's core dumps. I could disassemble raw hexadecimal in my head, even though we had all the source code on microfiche.

Originally the products I supported (MVS, CICS, NCP/VTAM) were written in pure assembler (ok, Assembler) and were a thing of beauty, but then they moved to PL/S and it became rather less intuitive.

[John Rumm]

Indeed, many are... its an easy way to port it to a new target platform as well.

[Clive George]

I rather liked ARM assembler - ever met that?

[dennis]

I can believe it happened, personally it took about ten minutes to put my WfW on the network.

[Bob Martin]

Not yet, but I'm just getting into Android programming.

[Bob Martin]

I was a hardware CE from 63 to 66 (1401 and 7094) then software CE from 66 to 70. Green card was for 360 (I still have 3) and yellow card was for 370 (haven't got one of those). Like you, I can still read the hex core dumps - bit like riding a bike. I now run VM/370 on my PC using Hercules -

MVT and MVS are available if you fancy a trip down memory lane :-)

[dennis]

Isn't that just like java? I must download the kit and have a look.

[Bob Martin]

The easy way to write apps is Java, yes, but like any other processor it can also be programmed in assembler, C, C++, Pascal etc

[dennis]

It can, but getting it on the phone may not be easy. Would it have to be rooted first? Limits the scope a bit as most aren't rooted.

[Bob Martin]

Not sure whether it must be rooted as both my android phones have been rooted since the day I got them, but as long as it's packaged as a .apk there are several ways to install. I was a bit surprised the other day when I copied a .apk to /system/app and it was immediately executable.

[Reentrant]

/system/app

You don't need to be rooted, but you need to tick the box Settings / Applications / Unknown sources

This is unticked by default which means you can only install Android Market digitally-signed apps. Remember to untick it afterwards.

[dennis]

Let us know how you get on, it might be fun to port some stuff like deflection programs to a phone. You could write one that used the camera to measure deflection and then workout the load on a beam for instance.

[johnm01]

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Run the Windows Cleanup tool. Will delete all backup installable files and browsing history. Ran mine after a few months and the difference it made was fantastic!

-John