> ObHPC: Transputer counted as HPC at one time, right? A single development board, not so much, but a proper Transputer machine with many nodes, such as a Meiko machine, absolutely! (Says one of the original founders of Meiko :-) You may have used the Fortran compiler fo rwhich I wrote teh code-generator [in BCPL later migrated to C]).
-- Jim James Cownie <jcow...@gmail.com> Mob: +44 780 637 7146 > On 23 Mar 2023, at 19:08, Christopher Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > > On 3/23/23 11:59 am, Fischer, Jeremy wrote: > >> HPUX 9. Hands down. > > v9? Luxury! > > For my sins in the mid 90s I was part of the small team that managed a > heterogenous UNIX network for folks doing portable compiler development, I > think we had ~12 UNIX variants on ~8 hardware platforms (conservatively). > > Worst was a tie between SCO UNIX on x86 which had yet to discover symbolic > links and Idris on Transputer where the shutdown command would crash part way > through so then we had to do "sync; sync; sync" and then press the power > button. > > Most amusing problem was the Ultrix/AIX NFS war where one would cause > filesystem corruption on the other (can't remember which was the culprit and > which was the victim). Also SGI boxes don't like sucking in cigar smoke and > tar. > > ObHPC: Transputer counted as HPC at one time, right? > > 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
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