Re: [9fans] Re: Announcing the release of NetBSD 3.0

["Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

> ron, are you still using dsm?

Nah. I was young and naive back then. Now I am old and naive. Along the
way, I dumped DSM, although my last go-round was something called ZOUNDS,
which I used to good effect for X11-based tiled displays and other such
things you can see on my web page. ZOUNDS is available free of charge bla
bla bla, and I still hear from people every now and then who are using it.

I did build a 17-node hardware DSM system based on SCI that worked really,
really well for a parallel mpeg encoding project -- you know, the kind of
thing your cheap PC now does at 60x real-time or something :-)

SCI was a very powerful network, shame it had so many problems. It's
really, really nice to do stuff like atomic increment of a variable in
another machine's memory with a simple function call. Yeah, it's not "the
right thing" any more but, that said, it sure was nice.

ron