From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 17 22:18:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06867 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 22:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06858 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (localhost.softweyr.com [127.0.0.1]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA28630; Sun, 17 May 1998 23:17:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <355FC482.4B7D24DD@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:17:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Janowski CC: Bret Ford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO offers Ancient Unix Source Code License References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message