29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
1:14 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Indeed - oblate spheroids don't count :-)
I was just looking at some mainframe and supercomputer type stuff the other
day and it got me thinking how weirdly-shaped some of them were (hence the
sarcastic sphere comment!)
There was one system in which the basic building blocks were cabinets in
either an 'X' or 'Y' configuration, and different sizes of system could be
made by bolting these basic blocks together in various topologies. I don't
recall the manufacturer now (although I think they were US-based), but it sure
was more interesting than rows of rectangular cabs :-)
Has anyone
ever built a spherical computer? That'd be interesting...
dead easy to move around, too :-)
"Give me a place to stand, and I'll move the world." - Archimedes
'course the system designed by Deep Thought is not truly spherical.