"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of
emulators out there that work side-by-side with MacOS.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com





We could save a couple of thousand dollars and boot my Samsung NC10 netbook
to WinXP....Apple OS X.....Linux and not need to run all the apple
emulator crapware to drag everything down. Here's the video of the OS X
netbook. $410 delivered at Costcentral.com!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HckW...eature=related

Fantastic little netbook....NO GLOSSY SCREEN is a pleasure to watch!!

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of
emulators out there that work side-by-side with MacOS.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com





We could save a couple of thousand dollars and boot my Samsung NC10
netbook
to WinXP....Apple OS X.....Linux and not need to run all the apple
emulator crapware to drag everything down. Here's the video of the OS X
netbook. $410 delivered at Costcentral.com!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HckW...eature=related

Fantastic little netbook....NO GLOSSY SCREEN is a pleasure to watch!!



Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The emulation I
have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and you can share data
back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much, but it's a desktop box. I'm
not sure why I would need to switch back and forth either with boot or
emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems to me, I'd be on one or the other,
depending on what runs natively.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.



My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.



My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....



I just booted up my Virtual PC emulator on my Windoz box. I use it very,
very rarely to test suspect software. It's actually not bad. Oh, so my
point... I only have 1 gig of ram. It's a fairly old system... P4, 3.06 gh.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Capt. JG wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions:

Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.


My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....



I just booted up my Virtual PC emulator on my Windoz box. I use it very,
very rarely to test suspect software. It's actually not bad. Oh, so my
point... I only have 1 gig of ram. It's a fairly old system... P4, 3.06 gh.



Only 1 gig? "640k ought to be enough for anyone",, Lordy, when I went
to college if we had a machine with a full kilobyte we were doing well....

Cheers
Martin

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:12:31 -0400, Marty wrote:

Only 1 gig? "640k ought to be enough for anyone",, Lordy, when I went
to college if we had a machine with a full kilobyte we were doing well....

Iowa State built a computer from scratch, in 1948, and in 65 it was
the first box students used. It had 1k in the form of charged spots on
vacuum tube cathodes. Eight bits, one byte, per tube.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in news:49c969b9.9397015
@news.east.earthlink.net:

Eight bits, one byte, per tube.


I'd love to know the physics behind how they did that. Dual triodes, such
as 12AX7, 12AT7, 12AU7, or even earlier 6SN7 were used as latching flip
flops, but they only stored one bit...0 or 1. To get 8 reliable levels
would be magic. They did use a neon counter tube that had multiple
cathodes. Perhaps that is the "tube" that did a byte.