[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <k4dflb$jr9$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
(Michael Moroney) writes: 

> David Turner of Islandco got a hold of a whole bunch of DS10Ls, probably
> from such a project that wound down. He sold them cheap and even gave
> some away.  I wonder what project they may have been used for.
> 
> Similarly, someone on Ebay got a hold of a zillion rx2600 Itanics (2U
> boxes), and was selling them for a long time.  I bought one of them.  I
> also wonder what project they came from.  (I do know they were running
> some sort of Linux and not VMS from the boot configuration)

I read somewhere that King Kong's hair needed several thousand CPU hours 
to be rendered, ditto for some Titanic stuff.  I'm pretty sure Titanic 
was Alpha (and Linux); not sure about King Kong.