Can any one suggest a real use for a couple of Vax computers and a couple of Sun IPC computers which all live on a network together? List given so far: 1)Heating 2)Doorstops 3)combine with peices of wood to make sehelves 4)Compile Farm Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
David Freeman wrote:
Can any one suggest a real use for a couple of Vax computers and a couple of Sun IPC computers which all live on a network together?
List given so far:
1)Heating 2)Doorstops 3)combine with peices of wood to make sehelves 4)Compile Farm
5) Blender runs on pretty much anything- use 'em for a render farm! Jo -- <>-- jo mitchell --------icq#104771112 ----------<> http://deskdemon.com | http://futurshox.net Linux-powered! | mobile: +44 7974 219809 <>-----------------------------------------------<>
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman wrote:
Can any one suggest a real use for a couple of Vax computers and a couple of Sun IPC computers which all live on a network together?
List given so far:
1)Heating 2)Doorstops 3)combine with peices of wood to make sehelves 4)Compile Farm
5) Blender runs on pretty much anything- use 'em for a render farm!
Urrmm, I don't think your going to find a copy of Blender for VMS! also the Sun IPCs are all pretty slow! 6) run distributed net clients on them http://www.distributed.net (this is a good idea anyway, before you make them do anything else) 7) increase your electric bill a huge amount ;-) 8) learn VMS and apply for all the VMS jobs on jobserve... 9) the Sun IPCs should work ok as small webservers or DNS or something on a small lan. 10) Start a computer museum 11) errm run out of ideas, give on of the Vaxen to me so I can learn VMS and apply for all of the jobs on Jobserve? Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam
--- Adam Bower <abower@thebowery.co.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman wrote:
5) Blender runs on pretty much anything- use 'em for a render farm!
Urrmm, I don't think your going to find a copy of Blender for VMS! also the Sun IPCs are all pretty slow!
This is a good point!
6) run distributed net clients on them http://www.distributed.net (this is a good idea anyway, before you make them do anything else) 7) increase your electric bill a huge amount ;-) 8) learn VMS and apply for all the VMS jobs on jobserve... 9) the Sun IPCs should work ok as small webservers or DNS or something on a small lan. 10) Start a computer museum 11) errm run out of ideas, give on of the Vaxen to me so I can learn VMS and apply for all of the jobs on Jobserve?
Well my plan is to set them up on a network with a 486 working as a dial in router, this means you can dial in and then ssh into the boxes. If you want I can give you an account. Also number 10 is the most likely. Thanks D
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