On 8/20/19 11:03 PM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
A Transputer cluster? Squeeee! I know John Taylor (formerly Meiko/Quadrics) very well.
Hah, when I was a young sysadmin we had a heterogenous network and one box was a Parsys transputer system running Idris. The only UNIX system I've admined where the "shutdown" command would crash part way through and you'd need to type sync sync sync and then flip the big red switch.
The chips used to be made in the next city (Newport) along to the one I grew up in (Cardiff) in South Wales. :-)
All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Berkeley, CA, USA _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
