[Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim Lux James.P.Lux at jpl.nasa.gov
Mon Apr 9 14:42:43 PDT 2007


At 11:39 AM 4/9/2007, Peter St. John wrote:
>Well, I could run unix with all 1536K, but not MS/PCDOS 3.2. So call 
>it a software issue of failing to work around the hardware issue. 
>Obviously the hardware was not a show-stopper.
>
>But it was the 286 I did this on, not the earlier 8088, which I 
>don't think could reasonably have been expected to run unix;



No problem running unix on a 8086.. (Don't forget Xenix on 8086 or 
80286) Or, for that matter, on a 68000.  (maybe the 68010 with the 
mmu or the 020 with virtual memory?.. I seem to remember DRAM refresh 
by 64 NOPs on the timer tick) 





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