[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[JohnF]

Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> JohnF said:
>> Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
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>>> If you're thinking of basing this on Linux as I might suspect,
>>
>> Yeah, why not? Seems like the most straightforward approach.
> 
> Um, because you hadn't mentioned your preferred OS target,
> and I was guessing.

Oh, sure, I just meant "why not?" rhetorically. I also "have no horse"
in that os race. It's just that, at this point in time, most other
pc os's seem like old nags in comparison.

>>> Current OS X includes OpenCL and some clever GCD threading syntax baked
>>> into the clang compiler, if you have one of those boxes around.
>> Thanks, again. Those are great search terms for an alternative
>> framework. (Though no matter how open OpenCL is, OS X is way too
>> closed for my liking. Linux gets the job done just fine, without
>> leading me around like a bull with a ring through its nose.)
> 
> Or loosely translated into VMS terms, "see figure one": 
> <http://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html>

Let me suggest instead the somewhat mellower (and lots funnier),
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