Tron, con't

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Oct 6 15:51:39 1998

Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John Foust wrote:
>
> > At Siggraph, the industry's big trade show, the Kingston memory chip
> > booth wasn't far from our booth, and they spent the week telling
> > people to buy their memory because it was used in the machines
> > that rendered scenes from Titanic.
>
> And Bruce Faust, one of VCF 2.0's speakers, built the render farm that
> rendered the scenes for Titanic using DEC Alpha's under NT (or so he
> SAYS! :)

Actually, those (IIRC about 200) Dec Alphas were running Linux, not NT.
There's a fair bit of info around.
-- 
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me.  I said "Well, what do you need?"  --  Steven Wright
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