From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 3 16:17:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA08493 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 16:17:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA08488 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 16:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA08678; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:46:18 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703040016.KAA08678@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Are there any quad PPRo systems running FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: from Carl Makin at "Mar 4, 97 09:56:20 am" To: cmakin@nla.gov.au (Carl Makin) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:46:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, taob@nbc.netcom.ca, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, rsacrack@vex.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Carl Makin stands accused of saying: > > > Carl would probably just increase the number of beers he's offered his > > boss this weekend and get authorisation for another 15 CPUs 8) > > It's only got 20 CPUs total! Only 1 node is doing any productive work at Ah well, you need to invest more of the pizza fund in upgrading it 8) There's a totally idle CM5 at the university just down the road, but I don't rate my chances of coopting it as very high 8( I think that the individual responsible for purchasing it just wanted more LEDs than anyone else on the floor. (only 1/2 8) > While the managers work out what to do with the machine it's mostly idle > and available for this sorta thing. You could talk to someone like Poul about cross-compiling the FreeBSD kernel - I would imagine that you could put together a pretty evil kernel-by-mail service there 8) > Carl Makin (VK1KCM) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[