22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
8:54 a.m.
disks from work. Actually I'm rather annoyed,
because a former employee
came back and asked for the N-Cube computer, and was given permission to
take it! Thats a multi-processor machine with hypercube data exchange links
between processors.. Sigh.. and it looked kool too (we had christmas lights
blinking inside its smokey front panel, and students would see it and be
very impressed at all the computing that was being done!)
Hmmm... I have a manilla envelope that was sent to me in 1988 or 1989
containing a Macintosh 800k floppy and some documentation from a
gentleman named Alex Ho.
That's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that it
contains source and docs for a Macintosh based hypercube using localtalk
to connect the nodes. It contains a letter from the Concurrent
Computation Program at the California Institute of Technology addressed
to me that reads:
Enclosed please find C3P 253b, C3P 582, C3P 573, and a Macintosh diskette
which contains the Mac-Cube software package. It includes source,
binary, documentation, and installation notes...
Never got around to using it though. I do have 3 or 4 SEs, 2 LC class
machines and a pair of IIci's I could try it out with though. =-)
Anthony Clifton - Wirehead