[geeks] Best Vista story I've seen

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Tue Feb 20 20:28:40 CST 2007


On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:30:59PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Supposedly there was a network of Supercomputer Centers available to the
> public, funded by the federal government - there was one in NJ, and
> another in Urbana, Illinois (where a certain fellow decided to write a
> browser with some friends of his), and I think there were three or four
> more, IIRC...
> 
> The IDEA was that supercomputer time was available to educational
> organizations, government organizations, and other, non-commercial
> entities on a shared basis - not sure how it allplayed out...

I was under the impression that they both made you pay through the nose
to use it, and also justify your usage.

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