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All of that power
I used to know a programmer who had an IBM 360 in his garden shed, you know the type the sort that can type 80 words per in hex while patching a VTOC. I always wondered what his electric bill would be like, then I read about this system and speculated if some modern day brain would have one of these in his garden shed. Well of course not he'd need a small power station to provide the 1.5 MegaWatt to bootup and run the only the first segment of the machine.

I've heard people complain about the heat given off from their P4 machines, with one of these IBM systems you could setup district heating for a small town.

Oh someone said what OS, well as it is IBM wouldn't it be BDOS?

The whole point of a super computer is lost as soon as you put an OS on it OS's are so wasteful of resources. I would assume that apart for some very basic IO funtions the application would run at machine level to squeeze every opperation into the application and not waste it on an OS just doodling around.

The thought of that almost makes me want one to play around with...
Posted by: agottschald   Posted on: 11/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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WHAT OS IS RUNNING ON THE IBM MACHINE?  itanalyst | 11/05/04
Nice.  libertyaikido | 11/05/04
Linux (NT)  WDS_z | 11/05/04
They needed that much CPU power to make Linux work.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/04
RE: They needed that much CPU power to make Linux work.  richdave | 11/05/04
on this machine Windows performance is measured in teracrashes!  rotvic | 11/05/04
Quadrillion !!!!!!  kenw44@... | 11/05/04
Quadrillion is legit....  ruprick_z | 11/05/04
Does Quadrillion qualify as a Butt Ton or a Buttload?  itanalyst | 11/05/04
Sick of Linux users big time  Bit Wize | 11/05/04
I Stepped Off My Cloud For A Minute  itanalyst | 11/05/04
Dealing with it  trm1945 | 11/09/04
cloudy thinking  paulj_z | 11/10/04
sick of that discussion. always the same...  victor batscheff | 11/05/04
I hear that  MarkE_z | 11/10/04
RE: sick of Linux users...  sir_cheats_a_lot | 11/05/04
Windows 95?!?!  WebDevBB | 11/06/04
I am sure you are using Windoze Xp and service pak 2 as well.  JohnBeaman | 11/09/04
"grammer"school?  paulj_z | 11/10/04
Linux Setup  MarkE_z | 11/10/04
RE: Sick of Linux users big time  richdave | 11/05/04
Maybe you might want to look at this...  Fairlane | 11/05/04
and the point of this argument being  Humph | 11/08/04
6.4%??  Fairlane | 11/08/04
Don't Forget The MAC(Linux) users  MarkE_z | 11/10/04
MAC OS = Unix not Linux  rborchert | 11/16/04
Linux on the high end - a glimpse of the future.  George Mitchell | 11/05/04
yeah,  victor batscheff | 11/05/04
RE: yeah,  richdave | 11/05/04
I am amazed at the posts  JohnBeaman | 11/09/04
Commentaries (in general)  89710848-ginterv | 11/13/04
All of that power  agottschald | 11/14/04
Oh! and not a mention of L*, W* or M*  agottschald | 11/14/04

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