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Please see the change I just made to the UML page. You said the skas3 patch is required to run UML, and unless something has changed recently, I don't believe that is the case. Am I mistaken? ~leif ☺ _HELO 23:01, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No, you are quite correct. Thanks! Dan Shearer 07:19, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Emulation Software / Virtualization Software

Hi Dan, sorry I took so long to get back to you. I'm easy about emulation/virtualization, except for the fact that I've been in the field for 25 years and virtualization is a very new term, although the concept has existed happily under the umbrella of emulation for a good long time. A surrounding environment imitates a usually fairly complete subset of the behavior expected by an application originally designed for execution in an different environment. I use BSD jail myself, and am aware that the distinction here is very much more subtle than the one that normally pertains in emulation, where an application runs in an environment very different from that it originally ran in. I don't really have any time to spare for this so I'm happy to leave the details in your capable hands, although I would appreciate it if you found a useful place for a category that identifies emulators. The words virtualization software is likely to be rather opaque to someone just looking for an arcade game emulator. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:52, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Palm hardware speeds

A statement you made on the Xcopilot article has been disputed. (Though no one has said anything about it since last April...) The article said that Palm hardware runs at 20Mhz, but current Palms seem to run faster than that.

My guess is that 20Mhz is just how fast they were when you made the edit, but I thought I'd let you know about the discussion (if you can call it that) in case you have something to add. Jobarts^-Talk 02:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, have clarified in the Xcopilot talk page. Thanks. Dan

Hercules screenshots

Dan:

It looks to me as if the screenshots for the Hercules article in Section 2 are not quite right...

The screenshot referenced in paragraph 1 as "below" with "All counters are zero" is configured as thumb|right.

The screenshot referenced in paragraph 2 as "To the right" with "Debian GNU/Linux 390" is configured as thumb|left.

The screenshot referenced in paragraph 3 as "on the left" with "after logging in" does not seem to exist. A search through the article edit history seems to indicate it was intended to be added here but never was.

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Neuroplasticity

Hi -- just wanted to say I'm happy to see the improvements you are making to the article. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 22:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Dan! I vaguely remember using PIC when I worked back at Bell Labs in the '85-'88 era. I wrote a fair amount of troff but only rarely had to include diagrams in those documents. I do remember using another tool that was a front-end to PIC: it would allow us to create viewgraphs (transparencies) for use with overhead projectors. A couple of times I had to give presentations, and that thing would use text commands to generate simple graphics (flowcharts, pie charts, org charts) like the equivalent of a very early edition of PowerPoint. I recall that it didn't do well with embedded text blocks, so that for those slides where I was using embedded code listings, for example, I would have to generate them with "straight" troff, and then have to fight to manually put the right numbers in each set of slides -- PitA! But that program (maybe it was called vue or c-vue or something?) would spit out PIC the same way that cip would, and then we'd run it through some other driver instead of troff to make it come out on the little color printer we used for viewgraphs. I also remember that cip would frequently crash (and occasionally take out my entire BLIT) when I tried to reload complicated images and continue editing them. So I learned to keep each cip window open until I was entirely and completely done, and just keep using another window with shell to manage the files / revisions manually instead of closing the program instance. But I was only at Murray Hill for 6 to 9 months with the BLIT, and on one other contract (Whippany?) for a couple / three months; as an RV ("Resident Visitor" read: Contractor) I moved around quite a bit and was constantly working in different environments and on different platforms. (Not to mention that Bell was in the middle of the breakup then so I was working for different companies, too: Bell Laboratories, AT&T, AT&T-IS (Information Systems), BELLCORE, etc.) I don't know if these ramblings can help you at all, but you're welcome to them. :-) --Eliyahu S ^Talk 03:52, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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