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Grex > Garage > #28: grex has TWICE the power of mnet but... | |
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lar
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grex has TWICE the power of mnet but...
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Oct 6 20:21 UTC 2006 |
>2.10 ghz processor compared to mnet's 800 mhz
>512 megs ram compared to mnet's 256
>Matrox video card compared to mnets raggady ole trident( not that it matters)
>BUT they have freebsd compared to open.Freebsd is BETTER!
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cross
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response 1 of 11:
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Oct 6 20:51 UTC 2006 |
The thing about that is, the version of FreeBSD running on M-Net is pretty
ancient.
I'd like a PC server with no video card at all; and no BIOS. Just a serial
port and a PROM monitor that can load the OS.
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gull
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response 2 of 11:
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Oct 6 23:55 UTC 2006 |
My DEC AlphaPC is like that. Actually, it does have a video card in
it, an old Matrox Millennium, because I was too lazy to yank the card
out. But if it doesn't detect a keyboard it switches over to a serial
console. It's got a boot monitor that's a bit like Sun's, except more
primitive (you can't script it in FORTH like you can Sun's.) It works
very well for running a headless server.
I don't know why no one is doing this with x86 architecture machines.
The closest I've seen is the PC Weasel, which pretends to be a video
card but is actually a serial interface for a VT100-compatible
terminal.
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naftee
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response 3 of 11:
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Oct 7 02:29 UTC 2006 |
m-net's getting a new system, apparently
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cross
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response 4 of 11:
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Oct 7 03:04 UTC 2006 |
Such things do exist for x86 hardware, without the additional use of extra
hardware cards. Mostly, there are serial console BIOS's and things of that
nature, and then the OS is smart enough to use them....
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gull
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response 5 of 11:
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Oct 7 20:25 UTC 2006 |
Yeah, OS support can be a rub. FreeBSD is smart enough to handle it (it
can do the same sort of keyboard detection.) If I were running Windows
NT on the AlphaPC I'd be out of luck, of course.
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cross
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response 6 of 11:
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Oct 7 20:25 UTC 2006 |
Yeah, that's true....
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lar
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response 7 of 11:
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Oct 10 21:11 UTC 2006 |
well how about THIS baby for grex:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N2790.TribalFusion/B2030016.7;sz=120x600;clic
k=h
ttp://a.tribalfusion.com/h.click/LRGOJBHHOCNSTNGNJSRLTVMDYOOKGITEGTRQNTPBJHCGO
NDLIFBERVNBWTMUFWKGCRGOJKCJKISOOOGU/;ord=1674143900?
It is a 16 core tyan typhoon.
A "supercomputer on a desktop" they call it.
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lar
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response 8 of 11:
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Oct 10 21:14 UTC 2006 |
The above link is busted so google "Tyan Typhoon stuffs 16 cores into
"desktop" "supercomputer"
You have to see this baby!
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naftee
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response 9 of 11:
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Oct 11 04:43 UTC 2006 |
hey baby how's the beer
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tsty
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response 10 of 11:
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Oct 15 11:01 UTC 2006 |
concatonate the following ....
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/13/tyan-typhoon-stuffs-16-co
res-into-desktop-supercomputer/
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eteepell
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response 11 of 11:
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Jan 6 00:36 UTC 2007 |
Wouldn't beat my P133 with FreeBSD I'betcha... <duck>
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