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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,02:50 QUOTE
Quote (AwPhuch @ Jan. 16 2006,18:02)
This is why I like you man...

You tell it how it is

P.S. mikshaw neener neener neener!

heh

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As far as the misuse of the english language goes, and I'm not picking on anybody here, but the entire point of language is to convey ideas. As long as there is no way that the reader can be misled by what someone has written, nitpicking over grammer is a fruitless endeavor.

Short answer--We're hear to share knowledge, not write a term paper. Your grade will be based on content, not grammatical/spelling errors.

We've got enough problems drawing a big neon arrow to the answers of questions that have been ansered a hogjillion times without turning on each other over something so petty as to where it's appropriate to use double quotes.

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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,02:57 QUOTE
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The original OS9 was written for the 8-bit Motorola 6809 processor, such as the original Radio Shaft TRS-80 Color Computer and Color Computer 2

See, you're so far over my head, I don't even know which OS you're talking about here.

I hear OS9 and I think Macintosh.  I thought that maybe you were talking about Plan9, of which I know next to little, but this OS9 you speak of that ran on a Trash-80, I know nothing.

C'mon, gimme some links, teach me something. ;)

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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,04:04 QUOTE
On quotes and "quotes" and DSL newbies....

So duh...there's a geek and wannabe geek divide--but it's also true that almost everyone who uses Linux wants to get the f*** away from Microsoft, and yet, there are those screwy tasks in the world like printing, which usually doesn't require searching through databases for hours to see what computer might be compatible when you have Winblose, because the company made all of its printers Windows compatible.  I just shelled out money on a printer hoping to use it on DSL to find out that it wasn't compatible with Linux, period (and it's HP, at that!).  But I love DSL and am willing to suffer:  terse, cryptic instructions, the challenge of "rewriting" code (scripting) without being a programmer or having done it b4, and a hard learning curve secure in the knowledge that I am becoming more independent from the Evil Empire by the day to the amazement and shock of some of my friends, who think I should be focusing on my "dissertation" (-to-be).  But what do they know.

P.S.  There are other ways of looking at language than focusing on its referential function (to "communicate" "ideas").  One way is to look at all of the functions of language present in an utterance (among others, the conative function, the metalinguistic function and the poetic function).  Cf. Roman Jakobsen's oft-cited essay "Poetics and Linguistics" (do a Google search).

IMHO, the use of quotes around the word 'got' in the phrase "I "got" Linux" may be a visual deployment of "sudden onset" aspect which is otherwise performable in certain spoken Englishes (variously socially distributed) through intonation and other paralinguistic features.  However, it is true that the use of such quotes in terms of style is subject to contention and warnings against "overuse" in prescriptive grammar texts and ultimately, their interpretation is subject to considerations of uptake and other emergent intertextual factors.
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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,04:51 QUOTE
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On quotes and "quotes" and DSL newbies....

So duh...there's a geek and wannabe geek divide--but it's also true that almost everyone who uses Linux wants to get the f*** away from Microsoft, and yet, there are those screwy tasks in the world like printing, which usually doesn't require searching through databases for hours to see what computer might be compatible when you have Winblose, because the company made all of its printers Windows compatible.  I just shelled out money on a printer hoping to use it on DSL to find out that it wasn't compatible with Linux, period (and it's HP, at that!).  But I love DSL and am willing to suffer:  terse, cryptic instructions, the challenge of "rewriting" code (scripting) without being a programmer or having done it b4, and a hard learning curve secure in the knowledge that I am becoming more independent from the Evil Empire by the day to the amazement and shock of some of my friends, who think I should be focusing on my "dissertation" (-to-be).  But what do they know.

P.S.  There are other ways of looking at language than focusing on its referential function (to "communicate" "ideas").  One way is to look at all of the functions of language present in an utterance (among others, the conative function, the metalinguistic function and the poetic function).  Cf. Roman Jakobsen's oft-cited essay "Poetics and Linguistics" (do a Google search).

IMHO, the use of quotes around the word 'got' in the phrase "I "got" Linux" may be a visual deployment of "sudden onset" aspect which is otherwise performable in certain spoken Englishes (variously socially distributed) through intonation and other paralinguistic features.  However, it is true that the use of such quotes in terms of style is subject to contention and warnings against "overuse" in prescriptive grammar texts and ultimately, their interpretation is subject to considerations of uptake and other emergent intertextual factors.

....  ???

Me caveman...me grunt...me fling poo like monkey

Heh...ok...you win..your IQ is waaaaay above mine

Yeesh!

Brian
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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,05:03 QUOTE
With a well written explanation, wikipedia comes through for me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

I had (actually, still have... somewhere in the basement) a Color Computer 2 with 16K of RAM and Extended Basic.  I upgraded to the max of 64k RAM and also added a 35 track single sided 5.25" floppy drive (Actually, it was a 40 track drive but the op system only supported 35 tracks) and a 300 baud modem.

Using the above hardware, I was able to boot OS9 and configure a remote login via the modem and "muli-task" with two users (local console + modem).

The 6809 CPU and OS9 were a very powerful combination back in the day when you consider the price/performance vs. the alternatives. Personally, I just toyed around with the OS a bit and mostly stuck with DECB because most of the software that was available to me was written to be loaded by DECB.

Of course the 32 x 16 terminal monitor (a TV set) with no lowercase letters was a bit of a hardship :)
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