10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
6:38 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:40:39AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
Nice.
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Chris M wrote:
There are UNIX-compatible people and non-UNIX-compatible people
(cf Unix Hater's Handbook).
Personally, I fell in love with UNIX from the first day I
ran across it in 1984, but the 36-bit crowd was, um,
resistant.
OI I know what supercomputers are used for.
Ahh. That's surprising, given your question. ;)
The essence of my question is are these things at
all user friendly?
It's a UNIX box, man. The most (programmer-)friendly OS in
existence. At least for even moderately technical people. What familiar
apps COULD be run if I was disposed to want to?
Familiar apps? Well, pretty much anything that runs under UNIX,
possibly given some porting effort. Hell, my friend James Sharp
ported Apache httpd to my Cray J90 and ran a web server on it. As far as "familiar apps",
though...it's not exactly the type of
equipment you'd want to run Firefox on. But surely you have a modern
computer (or even a not-so-modern one, if you're still running
Windows) for stuff like that.
If I had a Cray at my disposal, I'd probably give LCDproc
<http://www.lcdproc.org/> a try, but that's strictly out of
of the same perverse sense that makes someone want to run
a webserver on a platform that isn't exactly built for "mudane"
sorts of apps. I really don't know what I'd do to "open up the
throttle" on a Cray.
-ethan
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