Wanted stuff (Was: Pretty good week)

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Mar 3 17:32:32 1998

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 lisard_at_zetnet.co.uk wrote:

> :Intel themselves produced non-pc-compatible 286 machines (and
> :others, of course). Do we have any hypercube hackers here?
>
> oh, yes, we'd forgotten them... does anyone know where we can *get* one,
> more to the point? :>

I searched the net and didn't find a single one for sale. And then I
decided I wanted flashing lights on my supercomputer, so I searched for
bargains on a Thinking Machines CM-1 or CM-2, but couldn't find any :-(

If you merely want to program a hypercube, I remember that there was a
simulator available and it ran on Xenix (which I think was also running on
a non-PC 286 desktop box from Intel at the time).

Given the number of cast-away machines in the world, I've been thinking
about revitalizing the original Cosmic Cube code from CalTech and building
the world's cheapest supercomputer using the old boxen. Unfortunately, I
think if we combined all of our collections, we might be able to scrape
together a few 100 MIPS, and we'd have a little communication bandwidth
problem....

-- Doug
Received on Tue Mar 03 1998 - 17:32:32 GMT