On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Charles Anthony < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Swift Griggs <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> It probably still impressed the suits when they walked the data center. >> I've done data center tours with row after row of HP or Dell x86 servers >> and it's not much to look at. >> >> > Definitely. > > Several OSes would show distinctive 'idle' patterns on the lights, this > provided a quick visual cue about system load for the big multi-user > systems. > > As I understand it, the Transputer (an early multicpu system designed to > parallel computation had a simple buf effective display -- an LED for for > each CPU indicatiing if the CPU was working or idle, this told you at a > glance if you parallelization algortihim was effective. > > Oops. Connection Machine, not Transputer. > -- Charles > >
