On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > : > OT- On Fossils: > While I cannot claim "Fossil state" anywhere near some of the people who > were doing cards -- I knew about them though -- when I was born, I have had > my spell flicking switches to select boot device on a Texas Instrument DS > 990 switching between the "Washing machine" disk and the 9" tape drive. (Now > this is in India when a lot of restrictions -- both by Indian and other > governments -- were there in Technology imports) The interesting part of it > was the entirely memory mapped design and barely a few registers... > and then in Prime 750 which had 5 huge boards which constituted a CPU. and a > "hefty" amount of RAM -- 8MB. The thigs is they worked 24x7 and we were > required to give a month's notice before shutting them down / rebooting > unless there was a breakdown which was very rare. Just like Linux > ^H^H^H^H^H^H Centos Servers > Lightweight! mhr