DECstation 5000

From: Brian Harrington <brian_at_sigh.mse.jhu.edu>
Date: Tue May 21 16:23:44 2002

--On Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:01 PM -0500 Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
wrote:

> I've got a CD labelled:
>
> MasPar System Software
> Release 3.24 for a
> DS5000-based MP
> 9200-0010-B7
>
> Does anyone know what this is? I got this out of a RRD40 drive, so I'm
> guessing it was for a DECstation 5000.


It looks like the OS release for a MasPar massively parallel supercomputer
(up to 16K processors). They used VAXen and DECstations for their front
ends. Now all you need to do is track down the machine it goes with....

                  -- Brian



--
Brian Harrington
Curator of Digital Collections
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
The Johns Hopkins University
brian_at_sigh.mse.jhu.edu
Received on Tue May 21 2002 - 16:23:44 BST

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