[Beowulf] small-footprint MS WIn "MinWin"

Jon Forrest jlforrest at berkeley.edu
Mon Oct 22 15:01:53 PDT 2007


Joe Landman wrote:

> I remember seeing the NT-Alpha version on some DEC boxen at SC95 or 96 
> or something like that.  Someone was trying to convince me then that NT 
> was the death of Unix in supercomputing.  I didn't hear much about 
> digital media rights management.

I used to work in the Postgres group in the Computer Science Dept.
here at UC Berkeley. I managed to port Postgres from Unix to
the MIPS version of Windows NT, back in the mid 90s. It was
surprisingly easy. Most of the problems were due to Postgres,
not to Windows NT.

Cordially,
-- 
Jon Forrest
Unix Computing Support
College of Chemistry
173 Tan Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
jlforrest at berkeley.edu



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