DECstation 5000

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Tue May 21 16:33:33 2002

I know what you're talking about, and where it at least 'was'. I think it
might have been scrapped by now...

-- Pat

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Brian Harrington wrote:

> --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 - 16:33:33 BST