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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 1997 20:42:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        adrian@virginia.edu
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, rminnich@sarnoff.com, dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199710062042.NAA25588@usr04.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971006162606.20556O-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> from "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" at Oct 6, 97 04:29:38 pm

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> > I vote for "Legion", because of the obvious tip of the hat to Chuck...
> 
> 	You don't mean "Legion" as in http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~legion/
> do you?  These folks while open to newer and better hardware, they also
> seem to have become stuck on linux because it's what they could in stall
> on their desktops with IDE cdroms a long time ago.  I tried to steer them 
> into the light, but....
> 
> 	The name is derivative from the Herbert's "Dune" books.  It's
> predecessor was "Mentat". 

Nope.  Chuck is the BSD Daemon.  "Legion" is a biblical reference; do
the math.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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