Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:09:58 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO offers Ancient Unix Source Code License Message-ID: <19980518120958.05851@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <355FC482.4B7D24DD@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 11:17:54PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518004432.5978C-100000@fnur.3skel.com> <355FC482.4B7D24DD@softweyr.com>
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On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 11:17:54PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Nope. I got to see a preproduction 4D/280 at Silicon Graphics, when > I went to take their 3D graphics course. I also once got to fondle > the very first Pentium-based "Paragon" at Intel in Hillsboro. The > computing world is a much less exciting place these days, with PC and > "suits" seeming to run the world. Where's some good old scientific > research, or a cool military project with 3-D graphics and enormous > networks, when you need it? Just wait some years until we all have dedicated lines and 'suitable' amounts of bandwidth :-) Then we'll bundle a virtual machine with the FreeBSD installations, and have a question in the installer (which will still be sysinstall-based ;-) "Do you want to dedicate spare CPU cycles to experiments in parallellism run by the FreeBSD project?" and you can run your massively parallel testbeds on _millions_ of machines - think about the graphics you can create with one PPro per pixel... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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