Wednesday 9/30/98 6:57 AM J Orlin Grabbe John Young I read Operating Systems Netscape & Intel Grab On to Red Hat Linux as Windows NT Alternative at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ this morning. I have to get my green machine http://www.metriguard.com/HCLT.HTM assembler code ported to Visual Basic 6.0 using MASM 6.11. Yesterday I discovered that VB 6.0 uses the flat model. Thirty-two bit addresses. No segment registers. No longer will code be backward compatible on Intel processors. One of my next steps is to get the digital FX working, of course, then port the PC sides to NT. VB 6.0 is using Microsofts optimized C compiler to do the Visual Basic compilation! I learned yesterday evening that the PC Data System in Australia is grading lumber at 2,000 feet per second. I was in Grangeville, Id at Sherer planer mill in about January of 1996 testing out PC Data System. PC Data System - Pentium PC & Windows (R) software system for production-line lumber testing - CLT & HCLT http://www.metriguard.com/METPROD.HTM I was told last night that Sherer system was only running 800 per minute. 2 x 12 about 16 feet long planks were running continuously through the machine at Sherer. Wewear ear plugs the noise was deafening. Sure be fun to get this mess settled so that I could do more work with NT. We are in a lull in the GREAT FIGHT. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm I thoroughly enjoyed http://www.jya.com/itl-news.htm government crypto propaganda attempt in view of Black and White. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/bw1.htm http://www.zolatimes.com/v2.29/bw1.html Lets hope some FINALLY figure out that NSA, NIST, and the FBI are hoodwinking congress on the crypto issue merely for business reasons. Lets all hope for settlement before this matter gets WORSE. Later bill