*nix on "classic" systems

Doc Shipley doc at mdrconsult.com
Wed Apr 11 22:24:05 CDT 2007


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 19:49, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>
>>> Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Interesting.  I'm assuming from this statement that you haven't
>>>> been in many datacenters.
>>>
>>> Or used a mainframe.
>>
>>
>> One particularly twisted individual could run a UNIXy OS on a 
>> mainframe, have a VNC X-windows server running as a process, and use 
>> that to host a KDE/GNOME session.
> 
> 
> That kind of person would be me.  I've done that kind of twisted stuff, 
> like running OpenGL Quake on my mainframe, but that's *far* from normal.

   You know that Quake runs native, full 3D, on AIX v4.3.x, right?


	Doc


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