BASIC/V forever!

Is their anything we can do to get BASIC/V and the other subsystems included
in MPE/iX FOS?
DICTDBU & DICTDBL are mighty handy at times. As Stan mentioned one can
receive the complete MPE/V subsys from HP, but it would be helpful if some
of these subsystems could be included on the current FOS tape. If HP won't
do it perhaps these could become part of the opensource library at Interex.

Cordially,

Mike Hornsby
Beechglen Development Inc. (www.beechglen.com)
Co-founder/Chief Technical Officer
513-922-0509
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----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Gordon <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: A first stab


> I made a couple stabs at it.  The first disconnected by itself after a
couple
> minutes, the second never finished after 15 minutes (no feedback on the
download
> anymore).  When I tried to 'send break', it told me it was busy, and then
closed
> down the program, but a process was still visible in Task Manager.
>
> I'm on a cable modem at my end.
>
>
>
> Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> > During my spare time over the last several days, I've put together a
more
> > fully multimedia presentation using QCTerm. The talk that I've prepared
as a
> > first trial at putting multimedia on our HP3000 is a recap of the talk
that I
> > gave at last year's HPWorld in San Francisco.
> >
> > Over the last few months, I've grown more enthusiastic about the
> > possibilities of us using QCTerm to provide not only a standard terminal
> > emulator and a much enhanced GUI forms interface, but also as an
educational
> > mechanism. I spend probably 30% of my day -- virtually every day --
teaching
> > people how to use our products over the phone, at one or two hour
stretches
> > at a time. QCTerm, with a very few slight modifications, offers us the
> > possibility of my recording a lot of this material and letting people
watch
> > it as often as they want, whenever they want, from wherever they find
> > convenient. Doing that will not only relieve some of my burden (which I
truly
> > don't mind all that much), but more importantly, it will actually
increase
> > the number of people that I can talk to at any one time and increase our
> > customers capacity to watch this material at their convenience. It's
become
> > clear of late that Ive personally become a limiting factor in our own
success.
> >
> > The thing I'd like to show you now is simply a first stab at at this.
> > Hopefully, what you see here will look quite primitive in a few months.
To
> > see (and now hear) the San Francisco talk, telnet into our 918DX
> > (209.181.113.217) and sign on as:
> >
> >       yourname,demo.qcterm
> >
> > Then type "b" for BASIC, and then type:
> >
> >       >run slides
> >
> > Let me warn you at the outset that in the current design of QCTerm, all
of
> > the sound and graphics files are downloaded before QCTerm begins to play
the
> > program. Most normally, that's the way that you would want to do it, but
in
> > this case, there are 3MB of files to download -- and the 918 only has a
56K
> > frame relay circuit attached to it, so it will take about 7-9 minutes
for
> > these files to download.
> >
> > In a soon-to-be-released version of QCTerm, you'll only have to wait for
the
> > first sound or image files to download; everything after that will
download
> > silently in the background, as you watch the program. I estimate that
for
> > this specific talk, using the next version of QCTerm, your initial wait
time
> > will be cut to 23 seconds.
> >
> > All of this downloaded material is being cached in the c:\aics\cache
folder
> > on your PC, thus if you watch this talk again, you'll find that the talk
will
> > run instantly. If you want to purge all of this material after you
watch,
> > simply purge the cache folder (it will rebuild itself automatically).
> >
> > Let me explain how I put this talk together.
> >
> > I put all the slides that you will together using nothing more elaborate
than
> > EDIT/3000. There are 34 slides in the talk, labeled SLIDE1 to SLIDE34. I
> > actually did this half a year ago, just a few days before HPWorld.
> >
> > A few days ago, on Sunday evening, I recorded 32 voice snippets (two of
the
> > slides have no sound) using the Sound Recorder that comes with every
version
> > of MS Windows. Once you get the hang of using this very easy-to-use
program,
> > it works surprisingly nicely. The sound is compressed 10:1 during the
> > recording using GSM encoding (an algorithm that was invented in Europe
for
> > European cell phone usage). Of all of the codecs that I have tried, GSM
> > provides the highest quality sound at the highest level compression; on
a 56K
> > link, the sound files arrive in one-third the time they take to play.
Better
> > yet, the GSM codec has been in Windows since the earliest versions of
Win95.
> >
> > Each snippet of sound is attached to its respective slide. This is a
very
> > easy way for an amateur to create a sound track. Doing one slide at a
time is
> > a thousand times easier than having to speak for the entire 20 minute
run of
> > the talk.
> >
> > You'll notice that I stumble a bit here and there. If the first take was
> > anywhere near to acceptable, I just left it. It seemed like more of a
natural
> > talk to me that way -- and no one would ever mistake me for a highly
> > polished, silver-tongued snake oil salesman :-).
> >
> > Although it may not look like it, QCTerm is still operating as a
terminal --
> > and it's still just as interactive. If you want to quit the talk, type
"X",
> > followed by a carriage return. If you want to go to a particular slide,
type
> > "16" (or whatever slide number you want), followed by a CR.
> >
> > When the program exits, you will be in the SLIDES program. You can at
that
> > point, if you wish, type "LIST" to see the code that's driving the
slides.
> > The advancement of the slides is coming from the HP3000, using a
timed-read.
> > The SLIDES program is reading each one of the flat-file slides, one at a
> > time, and presenting them to the QCTerm display, and waiting for either
the
> > timed read to time-out or for you to type something.
> >
> > If you wish to see what constitutes the slides, exit BASIC and type
"EDITOR"
> > to get into EDIT/3000, and then type:
> >
> >       /t slide16
> >
> > or whatever slide you wish to see.
> >
> > All of this code is completely open. There are no passwords or
firewalls. And
> > none of the code is protected in any way. Should you accidentally modify
the
> > code, it isn't a catastrophe. We have backups. Just let me know that you
> > think it might a little fouled.
> >
> > Wirt Atmar