[tech] Console boxes.

[Leighton Haynes]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:31:50PM +0800, Anil Sharma wrote:
> > 
> > Nevertheless I'd like to put support behind this idea, it should be done,
> > and would be very useful. And don't give me crap about the SGI's being good
> > for this sort of thing. They're not. Besides which, things like GGI and glx
> 
> OK, call me a naive bastard... but why aren't the SGI's any good for this?

They're slow. Very slow. Very very slow. We still don't have decent compilers
for them. Lots of the libraries aren't very well supported on them and I don't
want to have to fuck about with lots of completely unrelated compatibility 
issues with getting it all to work with Irix. Did I mention they're slow?


> For sound and stuff then yes I'd agree that PC hardware has a larger
> audience.
> 
It;s not even audience, it's an absolute shiteload easier for me to code 
under Linux on an x86 box than Irix on an O2.

> I think we need to start moving away from server/term setup in UCC...
> there are more and more cheap computers out there that can be set up as
> console boxes. Use server for passwords/routing/mail/home directories and
> that should just be about it.
> 
> I think there are far too many boxes in the machine room and most of these
> can be scrapped/upgraded/merged.
Yes, way way too many. Can we get a list of all the boxes and what  they
 supposedly do? Cos I have no idea what most of them do.

> The UCC has money, we should start putting some decent console boxes out
> there for the members to use.
> 
Ahhh.. so you do agree with me :)

Leighton...

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