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IP: more on Cringely's Supercomputer


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:54:15 -0500


Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:12:14 -0500
From: Dan Steinberg <synthesis () videotron ca>
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: Cringely's Supercomputer

As a veteran of the POSIX wars... I found this para particularly funny!

> >>Unlike KLAT2, the operating system for my little supercomputer won't be
> >>Linux. It will be QNX, a real time OS that supports massive parallelism and > >>has very low overhead. QNX is fast! QNX is also Posix compliant, so there is
> >>lots of software that almost works under it.
>
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