Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:37:16 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> Cc: Jasper O'Malley <jooji@nickelkid.com>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer Message-ID: <20000630143716.A13271@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <183220759562.20000629232334@nc.rr.com>; from freebsd@nc.rr.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:23:34PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006292141370.4814-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> <183220759562.20000629232334@nc.rr.com>
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Neill Robins said on Jun 29, 2000 at 23:23:34: > Hello Jasper, > Thursday, June 29, 2000, 9:45:00 PM, you wrote: > JOM> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:34:19PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > >> > > >> > there has to be a way of making a joke out of the new > >> > supercomputer running windows. i can feel it, i just can't > >> > put my finger on it... > >> > >> URL? > > JOM> FWIW, it's an enormous IBM SP system, composed of 512 16-way SMP RS/6000's > JOM> running in parallel, interconnected with a propietary high-speed network > JOM> switch. > > JOM> Cheers, > JOM> Mick > > http://msnbc.com/news/426657.asp (a) Where does it say it's running Windows? The only mentions of Microsoft or Windows I could find were at the bottom, "this page optimized for..." (b) Since when did windows run on an RS/6000? Something wrong here. -R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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