On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:34:10 -0500, Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:26:58 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Didn't they ship one 470/6? It definitely was the machine originally >>announced. As I recall the first 470V went to Bernie Galler at the >>University of Michigan. >> >Not that I am aware of. >The second one went to U of M, as I recall. IIRC, the first went to NASA. > At the Goddard Institute of Space Studies initially, and then we moved it down to Maryland and became the Goddard Modelling and Simulation Facility. Just think about it, we used to run multiple global weather models in the 6M of real memory that maxed out the 470/V6. You can't boot windows in that small amount of real memory. /Tom Kern ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
