[geeks] Best Vista story I've seen

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 @ 18:00 -0500, Joshua Boyd said:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:07:10PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > Man... supercomputing power is now being used for mindless
> > entertainment.
> > 
> > Can you imagine the look someone would have given you if you asked them,
> > in 1986, if you could use their Cray to play Doom?
> 
> I'm sure someone must have investigated gaming with that sort of hardware.

Well, there are some Cray games in one of the archives.

Still... I remember when some friends and I requested supercomputer time
for a college numerical computation assignment.  It was taking our Sun
systems 3 weeks for a run.

The gopher we had to request time from looked at us as if we'd asked to
take Air Force One for a joyride.




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shannon           | The object of war is not to die for your country but to 
                  | make the other bastard die for his. 
                  |         -- General George S. Patton