On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It probably still impressed the suits when they walked the data center. > I've done data center tours with row after row of HP or Dell x86 servers > and it's not much to look at. > > Definitely. Several OSes would show distinctive 'idle' patterns on the lights, this provided a quick visual cue about system load for the big multi-user systems. As I understand it, the Transputer (an early multicpu system designed to parallel computation had a simple buf effective display -- an LED for for each CPU indicatiing if the CPU was working or idle, this told you at a glance if you parallelization algortihim was effective. -- Charles