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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at, stox@enteract.com, tlambert@primenet.com
Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
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> > From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct  7 06:28:00 MET 1997
> > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:50:37 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.sa.enteract.com>
> > To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > >Unfortunately, if you are looking for a cool name, you are going to be
> > >reusing one.  The latest incarnation appears to be "Javelin", a loosely
> > >coupled, massively parallel JVM type thing.
> > >
> > 
> > I used to drive a Javelin, somehow that name does not fill me with great
> > confidence in performance. Wait a minute, "loosely coupled, massive," 
> > hey that does work. ;->
> 
> Hey, I used to drive one of these too, but I booted to an Olds 455 instead of
> a preinstalled cca. 200 Six.  Just don't ask me where the radiator and the
> battery went nor how many gallons per mile it managed :)  It _did_ rock, 
> though.[1]
> 
> /Marino (showing his age again:)
> 
> [1] It was a '68 model.  Can you believe, it was considered to be a
>     smallish car at the time
> > 
> > 
> 

Yeah - mine was a '68 as well.  It was, umm, "yellow"...

	- Dave Rivers -