Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:17:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> Cc: Bret Ford <bford@uop.cs.uop.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO offers Ancient Unix Source Code License Message-ID: <355FC482.4B7D24DD@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518004432.5978C-100000@fnur.3skel.com>
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Dan Janowski wrote:
>
> Aaah, the caps, eh?
>
> I also worked on 80GTs. I once had to
> fix one of those squirrel cage fans at
> 2:00am (yes fix). In the cool eves of the
> summer, when I was still in shorts from
> the day I would sit on the machines while
> they were rendering to keep warm.
>
> Fond memories.
>
> Every see a PVS? It is (was) an IBM box
> with 32 i860 procs and 1GB mem. GREAT lights.
> 3 phase power necessary. Oooh, heat. An
> array of HiPPI disks that would do a little
> dance (little) when playing uncompressed 2K
> movies on the HD monitor. Now a dodo (sp?), bird
> that is.
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?
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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