Author: Zachariah Amela
Date: 14:22:35 09/14/99
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>Time for a history lesson... :) > >Harry Nelson, my partner in Cray Blitz, worked at Lawrence Livermore National >Lab. Harry was/is considered the premier expert on Cray assembly language/ >architecture in the entire world, and has worked as a consultant to Cray for >20+ years. I have spent many a visit out at Livermore tweaking Cray Blitz for >the next tournament... > >"Lachex" was written at the Los Alamos National Laboratory by Dr. Burton >Wendroff. Burt and I have been friends almost forever, it seems, and he is >still occasionally active on ICC with a handle of 'firefly' for his current >chess program. I have spent many days visiting at Los Alamos also, visiting >Burt, as Harry could always finagle a visit to LANL himself so that we could >get together. :) > Wowzer!! The kind of technologies those guys most get to use on a daily basis makes my head spin. That would be quite cool. What department where those two engaged in? LANL is a BIG facility. Just curios. They have quite a bit of different weapon development going on there. > > >>I understand SGI Irix systems are used for a lot of the militarys satellite >>imaging. How does Irix compare w/ Linux? Do the 'play together' well, or not? > >Works fine. In fact, lots of SGI boxes are running Linux, just like a lot of >sun boxes are, because IRIX is not 'great' by any measure... > Not great? What problem area's does IRIX have? I've been told for imaging, it is superb. Does it fail in other aspects? > >At one time sun "owned" the workstation market. But they decided to get away >from commodity microprocessors (they were a Motorola 680x0 user at first) and >designed their own. The rest is history. > So jumping ship to Sparc did them in huh? Why didn't they go to x86 or a hybrid adaption of the x86? Why did SunOS go the way of the dinosaur, and why was it replaced by Solaris? W/ Sun's deep pockets they could have at least released something comparible to the Alpha. While on the subject, what is it that Oracle boxes use now? >> >>In terms of CAD/CAM what does Linux offer? What packages exit for truly >>professional design and industrial manufacturing systems? Are there any systems >>the beat out other design systems for other UNIX and/or Windows flavors? >> >>Thanks. > > >That is a Linux issue. There are some commercial products for Linux. There >are more for Solaris. There are _many_ more for Windows. Not being a CAD/CAM >person, I don't know what is out for Linux, but I am sure that there are >options, although I wouldn't venture to guess how they stack up against Solaris >or IRIX software options... As you know, I have been poking around for alternative OS's. So far Linux is hands down on top of my list. I did find one CAD program for Linux, but I wasn't exactly inspired. I could have looked more into it, but....ya know. Also, what type development environment in Linux would you suggest to a (gasp!) professional VB developer? xbasic? Is it any good? Can I truly port code; or is it like 99% of other importable basic compilers I know? Well, thanks Dr. Hyatt. You really can fill a guy in on the details.
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