29 Jan
1999
29 Jan
'99
9:02 a.m.
On or about 10:21 PM 1/26/99 -0800, Sam Ismail was caught in a dark alley
speaking these words:
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
> Using 80 C-64s in a single project? Heck, I'm
curious...
Were basically in the preliminary feasibility study
stages of building a
massively parallel vintage computer. The point? To demonstrate that old
hardware that can be picked up for pennies can be combined to attain
amazing amounts of computing power.
How much of the documentation / flowcharts / source code / etc. will be
open source / GPL / freeware?
I've always wanted to build a multi-processor CoCo (the 6809 was designed
with simple multiprocessing in mind) but never quite figured out where to
start. These documents might actually give me a clue.
Just wondering,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger (a.k.a. Daddy)
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29 Jan
29 Jan
8:59 a.m.
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Roger Merchberger wrote:
How much of the documentation / flowcharts / source
code / etc. will be
open source / GPL / freeware?
All of it I guess. Unless you really want to pay us :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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1 Feb
1 Feb
1:19 a.m.
>> Using 80 C-64s in a single project? Heck,
I'm curious...
>Were basically in the preliminary feasibility
study stages of building a
>massively parallel vintage computer. The point? To demonstrate that old
>hardware that can be picked up for pennies can be combined to attain
>amazing amounts of computing power.
How much of the documentation / flowcharts / source
code / etc. will be
open source / GPL / freeware?
I guess most - at least I think we will give source/object to
anyone who like it - For flow charts and other documentation
stuff we have to see if ther will be any usable form (beside
the usual notes on used paper towels). Let's use Freeware as
term, since I dislike the GPL thing on a pricipal base - it's
just way to strict to allow progress.
I've always wanted to build a multi-processor CoCo
(the 6809 was designed
with simple multiprocessing in mind) but never quite figured out where to
start. These documents might actually give me a clue.
Let's see - I don't think you can use a lot, since the softwar
will be very Commo specific and written in Assm. Maybe the
communication design and protocols ... Maybe in 2000 we have
a mixed cluster ? :)))
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
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