04/09/92,21:45:43,226421,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#45578, E#45579,14 04/09/92,22:08:59,226422,2,KEITH MCCREADY,,12 04/10/92,00:48:23,226423,2,MIKE REINHART,,4 04/10/92,07:35:43,226424,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,1 04/10/92,10:38:42,226425,2,ALEX ZELL,, 04/10/92,13:53:15,226426,2,KEN STOX,,1 04/10/92,15:57:32,226427,2,JIM COMAN,Barrington/ IL,6 04/10/92,20:11:40,226428,2,AL HIGGINS,, E#45580,10 04/10/92,20:37:51,226429,2,BILL MATTSON,, E#45581,15 04/10/92,23:28:01,226430,3,JIM COLLING,,7 04/11/92,05:27:50,226431,9,NORB NDEMBINSKI,,7 04/11/92,05:39:28,226432,2,JERRY OLSEN,,17 04/11/92,07:54:51,226433,3,ANN PELZ,,1 04/11/92,11:56:43,226434,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,3 04/11/92,12:14:50,226435,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1 04/11/92,12:41:40,226436,2,AL HIGGINS,, E#45582,7 04/11/92,13:19:54,226437,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 45578 04/09/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BILL MATTSON: "R/POWERMETER PROGRAM" 45579 04/09/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "COMDEX" 45580 04/10/92 AL HIGGINS => WARD: "DESKJET COLOR CARTRIDGES" 45581 04/10/92 BILL MATTSON => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/POWERMETER PROGRAM" 45582 04/11/92 AL HIGGINS => BILL MATTSON: "R/POWERMETER PROGRAM" ---- End of summary ---- Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 45578 is 08 line(s) on 04/09/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to BILL MATTSON re: R/POWERMETER PROGRAM The version of SI that you have IS important. However, there is no such thing as "SI may not recognise cache outside of the chip." Cache is just there, and works. If SI is executing instructions and determining your machine speed from that execution, it "must" use the cache. While I'd love to know that 51 is what you get from a 64K cache, and that because I have 256K, I get 72, I think more likely we are just a few % apart, because cache has a diminishing returns role as it goes from 8K to 64K to 128 to 256. Msg 45579 is 29 line(s) on 04/09/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: COMDEX Well, just got back from 4 busy days @ Comdex. I had volunteered my time AMs at the IBM booth, and wound up spending most of the day - in the OS/2 2.0 "Test Drive" area. The response was generally very favorable. OS/2 was "quite robust" which doesn't mean we didn't ever have to reboot - but more that people were "unconsciously abusing it" by opening up things, then minimizing them (not CLOSING them). Thus it was not uncommon for me to walk up after someone and find 27 things opened (well, more like 16 ;-) Toshiba's little $8000 486 color laptop was the "machine of choice". I got a chance to REALLY type on IBM's new laptop - I was surprised, and haven't decided yet: IBM moved the keyboard a bit further "up" in the machine. I found thus I couldn't rest my palm on the table and reach the home row comfortably. Instead sort of the "front of my wrist" rested on the edge of the computer. I haven't decided if I like that or not. Karpal Tunnel syndrom comes from having the wrist too low, I think so perhaps IBM has it right... it is only because the front of my Toshiba is so thin that I can readily use it with palms on the table. I talked to Intel about replacing a 486 with the DX/2, and they said it wouldn't be offered to end-users. One thing (I'd not thought of) is that apparently BIOSes have timing loop - and he said just replacing the chip won't work. (I don't remember if he said "won't usually" or "won't always" or what). Windows was "real big" - didn't see anything particularly that pulled my chain, EXCEPT, "Fractal" software's painter. It does an OUTSTANDING job of doing thing like "water color" with either painted or scanned images. It has charcoal drawing, textured paper, friskit (sp?), etc. The air-brush was VERY nice. It was demoed with a Wacom tablet, that has the 3rd axis - i.e. pressure sensitive. This makes it a darned good drawing tool! Even hand-written text was quite good. I think I'll get it. Msg 45580 is 11 line(s) on 04/10/92 from AL HIGGINS to WARD re: DESKJET COLOR CARTRIDGES Now that I've had the 500C for several months, I have several empty cartridges.... I've been reading where there are services that refill them, or you can purchase a kit (blue or black) and re fill them yourself... I was wondering if you or anyone else has tried refilling the cartridge, or have had them refilled??? As for myself, I would like to find some other colors other than black and blue, like RED or Green, or maybe an Orange. We use soem of the color toner cartridges at work and they work great... However, they do not do the little HP jet cartridges. No demand I'm told!!!! Any information you or other have would be helpfull on this subject! Thanks - Msg 45581 is 10 line(s) on 04/10/92 from BILL MATTSON to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/POWERMETER PROGRAM Yeh, I remember reading about the return on increasing cache...some estimates have it at 3% for going from 64K to 128K. That's why I suspect my SI is the culprit. It's dated 1987!!! Also, most other tests I've run show 2- to 4-fold improvements. Oh well! This is the cross a speed freak must bear, I guess. I would really like to see a broad set of "benchmark" test programs assembled, and then run and cataloged amoung all of us "BBS'rs", but no one else seems to be adding any comments to ours. It might be of use to those considering a new machine, or trying to identify a "best" configuration for their own system to be able to have a body of data to compare to. Any thoughts? Regards... Msg 45582 is 11 line(s) on 04/11/92 from AL HIGGINS to BILL MATTSON re: R/POWERMETER PROGRAM During the past several months, our OEM group at work as run benchmarks against the systems were are currently selling, and some of the new system platforms we plan on selling in the future... They used several commercial sw packages ie norton, PC Tools, Checkit, to name a few. They also looked at how long it took to perform print a series of graphical reports using Excell and PM. The results were intresting, but to complex to quote back to you gentlemen here. I will see if I still have a copy and see what they did in detail. The one thing I DO remember, there were some major desparities about the results with the commercially available software. Will let you know! Reguards - No dup. chars. >Function:?