[geeks] vmstat modification

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Jul 17 10:57:09 CDT 2001


On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:42:42AM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> Finally, a friend of mine locked himself in his room with one for
> a weekend, and by the end of it had a wireframe of the enterprise
> rotating on the screen.  This was after 6-9 months of effort by
> other people. =)
> 
> Ultimately, CSH had them as diskless workstations running Ultrix
> and a hacked version of the QDSS X server (the graphics was based on
> the QDSS board, which is a kindof scary board itself).
> 
> Every person who I've since run into who worked on the KIMS project
> at Kodak or knew people who did, cringe every time I mention it...

Sounds like a reasonably nice system to me.  Never messed with a QDSS
board though.  I take it it is more than just a frame buffer?

Actually, for that matter I've never really tangled with a vax
either.  People keep telling me I should, but currently it is a really low
priority.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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