"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@lightlink.com> wrote:
Fred-- I am glad The Inquirer picked up the New York Times story-- (I choose not to read Tme Times) but the Time's story failed to point out that Gordon Bell (who is a fellow at M$) has given prizes each year (per his website) to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. http://www.sc2000.org/bell/ Bell further states that "the purpose of the award is to track the progress over time of parallel computing in applications."
So -- it not like M$ didn't know what he is doing-- and he for sure knows the capability of Linux clusters. Gar Note that Gordon Bell was VP of engineering at Digital (eg. DEC) when
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:54:01 -0400 GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote: the VAX was designed. And he was Cutler's boss. (eg. Cutler is the father of WNT). Bell's wife, Gwen, was the founder of Boston's Computer Museum. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9