On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk wrote:
:Intel themselves produced non-pc-compatible 286
machines (and
:others, of course). Do we have any hypercube hackers here?
oh, yes, we'd forgotten them... does anyone know where we can *get* one,
more to the point? :>
I searched the net and didn't find a single one for sale. And then I
decided I wanted flashing lights on my supercomputer, so I searched for
bargains on a Thinking Machines CM-1 or CM-2, but couldn't find any :-(
If you merely want to program a hypercube, I remember that there was a
simulator available and it ran on Xenix (which I think was also running on
a non-PC 286 desktop box from Intel at the time).
Given the number of cast-away machines in the world, I've been thinking
about revitalizing the original Cosmic Cube code from CalTech and building
the world's cheapest supercomputer using the old boxen. Unfortunately, I
think if we combined all of our collections, we might be able to scrape
together a few 100 MIPS, and we'd have a little communication bandwidth
problem....
-- Doug