Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:45:00 -0500 From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> To: "'Cat Okita'" <cat@ghost.uunet.ca>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: "current@FreeBSD.org" <current@FreeBSD.org>, "davidg@Root.COM" <davidg@Root.COM>, "hackers@FreeBSD.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.org>, "hasty@rah.star-gate.com" <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "scrappy@ki.net" <scrappy@ki.net> Subject: RE: Intelligent Debugging Tools... Message-ID: <01BB31D3.78BC7DE0@webster.unety.net>
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On Wednesday, April 24, 1996 9:20 AM, Cat Okita[SMTP:cat@ghost.uunet.ca] wrote: @On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: <snip> @or on the drive. External termination is right out in front of your eyes. @ <snip> @Being overly used to the world of unix-designed machines (ie: sun, dec...), @it was a really nasty shock to discover that PC's *normally* terminate @on the drives... @ @cheers! @cat @ @ Yes and vacuum tubes had little orange filaments that you could "see" through the glass and this told you they were working. There was a pin with filament voltage and you knew just where to wire it. Life was great. With Integrated Circuits the filament(s) are "hidden" inside. They are so tiny that you can not see them and to top that off, the designers were able to eliminate the pin. The miracles of modern science....;-) -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
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