From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>,
Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Apollo Domain/OS
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:06:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25618b7a-d831-fd56-80fb-41da1f65887f@nomadlogic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VS6mEDC1gorq44T98P0CyfnvjNqjpUJFWbbSjdq7bAUMQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-01-22 08:31, Paul Winalski wrote:
>
> Apollo also did some early work in the field of CGI ray-tracing. They
> released the very impressive 4-minute film "Quest: A Long Ray's
> Journey into Night" in 1986. The ray-tracing was done by a network of
> 100 Apollo workstations and was revolutionary for its time.
Thanks Paul, I vaguely remember being told about this effort by my
mentor which is what sparked my interest. At the time we were trying to
optimally use all available CPU resources for rendering and while we did
have working solutions it required lots of perl and shell. so the idea
of CPU resources being available and shared as a foundational concept on
the network was really interesting to me.
I also seem to remember him telling me about working on the patriot
missile system, although i am not certain if i am remembering correctly
that this was something he did at apollo or at another company in the
boston area.
-pete
--
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-21 19:02 Pete Wright
2020-01-21 19:14 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-21 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-21 21:52 ` Chris Hanson
2020-01-21 22:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 22:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-21 22:58 ` Charles H Sauer
2020-01-21 23:00 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-22 0:20 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 1:18 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-22 16:31 ` Paul Winalski
2020-01-22 18:06 ` Pete Wright [this message]
2020-01-22 0:25 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-22 7:11 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-21 22:09 ` Dennis Boone
2020-01-21 23:53 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-01-22 2:47 ` Chris Hanson
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