6 Oct
1998
6 Oct
'98
1:27 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 04:51 PM 10/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
Yes, I too believe they were running Linux, not WinNT, although
Bruce (no relation) runs an Alpha box company that probably
Well, the article is in large part Digital (a division of Compaq)
sales hype, but here's one of the releases about the Digital Domain
project: <http://www.digital.com/alphaserver/news/titanic_398.html>.
An article by (apparently) some of the people involved indicates both
Linux and NT were involved, as well as some SGI hardware. It seems to
be from the middle of a long argument. <http://www.wibble.net/~sky/>
And of course, where I first read about it, Linux Journal, now has
that article up at <http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue46/2494.html>.
(For some reason I first read it in the print edition, which is
available somewhat earlier.)
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
And Bruce Faust, one of VCF 2.0's speakers, built the render farm that
rendered the scenes for Titanic using DEC Alpha's under NT (or so he
SAYS! :)
Actually, those (IIRC about 200) Dec Alphas were running Linux, not NT.
There's a fair bit of info around.