15 Dec
2000
15 Dec
'00
9:21 a.m.
"IBM used
to send out its salesmen with little 1/24
models of their Mainframe installations to do site
planning on the desktop first before bringing in the
actual HW. With Moore's Law and the progress of
miniaturization, you could Build a system that big
now that actually works."
Only with more power.
Imagine putting together a little model of, say, the
PDP-10 system on the back cover of one of the PDP-10
reference manuals, but build an imbedded x86 machine
into the model, with one serial line... run linux on
the the embedded machine and Timothy Stark's pdp-10
emulator running TOPS-10...