[simpits-tech] Best use of a PDP-11/45 *EVER* got itanium?

[Gene Buckle]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Contrapezist wrote:

> On a related note,
> I just inherited 4 IBM x455's each has 4 1.5 Ghz Itanium2's W/8GB of ram per
> CPU. Formerly the centralized traffic/billing computers for 40 someodd
> television stations. They need to serve a much more noble and cool purpose.
> Anything FS related that will run on them? The bad thing is being servers
> they arnt exactly equipped for visual apps.

Austin, you might want to contact the FlightGear folks (the developers 
list specifically).  There are text base services those machines could 
perform, like multi-player & map servers and maybe even a TerraGear 
generation farm.

g.


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