[lug] Is there a way move the active window under my cursor?

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

Carl,

Yep, an 8088. PC/IX runs on boxes with or without a math co-processor
(8087), and will, I believe, run in 128K of memory but prefers 256K. Like
all Unixes, it's a multi-user system -- you can plug multiple terminals
into the serial ports for multiple, simultaneous developers.

Without an 8087, all the floating point math is emulated, which leads to
some surprises.

awk 'BEGIN { for (i=0; i<1000; i++) {print i} }'
prints.
one.
number.
at.
a.
time.
with.
small.
but.
visible.
time.
delay.
between.
each.
:-)

because, it turns out, awk (at least then) did all its math in floating
point -- even loop counters, which were converted for the incrementing and
comparison, then converted back to print.

I think I know where the boxed product is, downstairs. I'll grab it and
bring it into work for you.


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Carl Wagner <carl.wagner1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Jeff,
>
> 360K or 1.2M?  I think I may have 1 of each  ;-)    I don't think I have
> any old RLL drives laying around anymore though.
>
> PC/IX ran on an 8088?  I wonder if you could run that in a VM?  It would
> need to be a very old version of a VM to support a pre-IDE hard drive
> interface.
>
> I see that SIMH, the Altair 8800 simulator, includes 8086 but it is
> probably not PC/XT compatible.
>
> Ooo, check this out, a 8086 emulator for th Raspberry Pi.  In 4043 bytes
> of C!
>     http://www.raspberrypi.org/8086tiny-free-pc-xt-emulator/
>
> Carl
>
>
>
> On 05/22/2014 05:12 PM, Jeffrey S. Haemer wrote:
>
> Jed,
>
>  Thanks. :-)
>
>  I have a full set of original, IBM-issue, PC/IX disks, including
> documentation. I could install that, if I could find a drive that reads 5
> 1/4" floppies, and then the cursor would always be in the "active window."
>  Sort of.
>
>  Might require an original, IBM-issue, PC/XT, of  course, with an 8088, a
> 10Mb Winchester disk, and, perhaps, a 10Mb extension chassis, too.
>
>  My current problem, however, is on a corporate laptop, which needs to
> run a mostly-stock, Ubuntu, LTS, desktop installation.
>
>  And thanks for all the help on the car, Saturday, which is definitely no
> longer stock!<https://plus.google.com/photos/107745170285570047179/albums/6016389387907935633>
> Hope you had as much fun as I did, but I can't imagine that would even have
> been possible.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:28:09 -0600
>> Jeffrey S. Haemer wrote:
>>
>> > Yep.  Standard desktop install.
>>
>> Are you willing to switch to Fvwm? ;-)
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