[tech] We should get one of these..

[Leighton Haynes]

On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:13:05PM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
> > This looks really cool (I found it browsing the CIIPS site):
> >   http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/research/Achilles.html
> > 
> > What happens to cool stuff like this that the Uni develops?
> 
> 1. People break in from Europe and steal the data/design?
> 

Bah, all my stuff was on a different untrusted subnet :P

> 2. Someone realises that gigabit ethernet switches and PCI cards have
>    already been done?

Erm, nothing on the market anywhere near the price is as good as this stuff.
Myrinet is the closest.. and their effective bandwidth is nowhere near what we
get :P

> 3. This space vacant for other sarcastic remarks.
> 
Oooh my turn.
Slack buggers like me supposedly develop drivers for it. But because we're 
slack buggers, they drivers are buggy, and unstable. Which reminds me.. i 
should really start writing those drivers for the achilles stuff.. 
*grumblehnoursprojectgrumble*


Leighton...

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