Great memories indeed. Thanks for C's hardwork to keep the list alive! I happened to remember RGB and Vincent. My last personal web server just retired after nearly 30 year "non-stop" service (except for power outages) was the first generation dual processor 386 ... It still runs...
Justin On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:02 AM, John Hanks <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember rgb, although not any Vincent who must have appeared in the > intervening years I didn't follow the list. My first cluster was 8 > discarded IBM PS/2 machines with MCA buses and tiny hard drives and yes, > 3.5" floppies circa 1996. I originally joined the beowulf list around > 1996/1997 and although I'd have sworn I posted more, I don't seem to have > much of anything in the archive. This confirms my lifelong status of > lurker. Which is probably good, no one wants to hear those stories about > hard-coding your IRQ in the ne2000 driver source, pushing packets between > nodes by hand, in the snow, uphill both ways over coax cables.... Now it's > all "container this, as a service that, blah, blah, blah" Kids today. > > jbh > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:18 PM Lux, Jim (337C) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Yeah, and you'll be telling stories about how you brought up your first >> cluster using 3.5" floppies. >> >> Jim Lux >> (818)354-2075 (office) >> (818)395-2714 (cell) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Beowulf [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Prentice >> Bisbal >> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:49 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters >> >> On 03/10/2016 01:34 PM, Jeff Becker wrote: >> > On 03/10/2016 10:32 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> >> This list used to get A LOT more traffic. Not sure what happened over >> >> the past few years. I miss the witty banter and information I used to >> >> get from all that traffic, but I definitely don't miss Vincent. >> > >> > :-) >> >> >> It just occurred to me that if you know who Vincent or RGB is, you're >> probably an old-timer on this list now. >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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