Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: New WiFi adapter Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 14:02:48 +0200 Lines: 83 Message-ID: <8cmdhlx03v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <7lcirjdmt6b37pcs0821d0l1jmoclrrhva@4ax.com> <9ludnRRB-JRx6ST6nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> <101m75b$3s8f3$1@dont-email.me> <3cudnTmwy_61S6L1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <101q7rs$10u8n$3@dont-email.me> <_judnU_9FIbiTN31nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net eQAwMQt29Y602gHUXuumZgcOn6XAIVSauZ76u7p4E8PBnRNZVt X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:sWJOWNdG45VBTUxUHx6Qr1MOkEU= sha256:oRzSTJCroKKUe/iKJl1GFaXe1DNkOVaMYCMhoU2VBjo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: On 2025-06-06 06:24, c186282 wrote: > On 6/5/25 7:08 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-06-05 01:06, c186282 wrote: >>> On 6/4/25 4:37 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>> On 2025-06-04 22:21, rbowman wrote: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> The 'write an editor' think could be traced to the programming >>>>> books of >>>>> the day. They tended to use string handling in their examples and it >>>>> followed 'Oh, I can write an editor'. >>>> >>>> Borland Pascal (and Borland C I suppose) at some point came with a >>>> set of libraries that allowed to create menu based text >>>> applications, and one of the included objects was an editor, for at >>>> least 65K of text. >>>> >>>> I remember another set of libraries, that came with a thick book, >>>> that included the libraries to create an editor. I don't remember >>>> the name. >>> >>>    No Borland stuff yet when we got our PCs ... and >>>    we couldn't afford anything but the MS/IBM FORTRAN >>>    compiler for the stats people. So, I opened the >>>    Tek Ref manual and wrote my EdLin-killer in MASM. >>>    It was fun too :-) >>> >>>    No real internet back in '82 ... so you couldn't >>>    download other people's solutions. The few BBS >>>    systems were mostly Commodore/Atari stuff. >> >> I did not have a phone in the 80's, so neither a modem. But I lived at >> a student residence at Uni, so exchanging software via floppy was >> trivial ;-) > >   Awwww ... you missed 300-baud comms ! > >   Think "slow enough to actually read as it comes in"  :-) I think that on one visit home, the bank manager, learning what I was studying, gifted us with a modem for accessing an information system being promoted by the authorities, and one of the services it had was accessing the bank. It was called "Infovía". It had a small speed uplink, and a faster speed downlink. I don't remember the figures, but could be 300/1200. Maybe less than 300? Hum, it says created on 1995. Then maybe I'm remembering some earlier thing. Maybe Ibertex? It talks of the standard "CCITT V23 (1200/75)". Yeah, that speed could be it. > >   I remember even slower standards. Hey "state of the art" >   way back then ! > >   LONG back, I used to log into CompuServe (still exists) >   for its own version of usenet (and it was good) using a >   dumb terminal hooked to a 300/1200 baud modem. "ATTD ...". > >   I think the Compuserve Forums no longer exist. Too bad. > >   The Compuserve Forums were GREAT. Then the corp was >   absorbed by AOL, then by Verizon ...... crap. > >   Another one that is badly missed are the BYTE-mag >   forums. Extra-good for light to super-heavy tech. >   Want a video terminal starting with chips and >   resistors and solder ... that was where to go. I remember typing ASM programs that came with perhaps PC-Magazine (ted.asm → ted.com). There were instructions for downloading it with a modem, but that would be an international phone call, even if I had a modem and a phone of my own. -- Cheers, Carlos.