From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 5 04:59:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA12657 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 04:59:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12652 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 04:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zxW4R-0001bL-00; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:58:52 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA00705; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:58:21 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07507; Tue, 5 Jan 99 12:58:18 GMT Message-Id: <36920C64.54215841@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 12:58:12 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Playstations.. References: <199901050203.UAA32848@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990105123502.D84950@titus.stade.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Adrian Wontroba wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 08:03:42PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > Wasn't somebody doing a FreeBSD port to these things? :-) > > I've heard a rumour that one UK academic is contemplating building a > very cheap supercomputer with a collection of playstations. I've no > idea what OS is contemplated. > Talking about UK supercomputers. Whatever happened to the Inmos Transputer of the '80's?. I remember seeing one of these parallel processing devices at an exhibition in the mid-80's. It was displaying in real-time a Newton's Cradle, photo-realistically rendered. This at the time when a 386 was the top of the range PC. > -- > Adrian Wontroba, Stade Computers Limited. phone: (+44) 121 681 6677 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message