On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> On 21 Jun, Matt London wrote:
> 
> > I get some funny looks moving in and out of halls at uni with both my
> > MV3300 and my big pee cee (which is also on wheels) - sitting on them in
> > the lift and the like :&)
> I know this. :-)
> Every summer is a big Linux fair in Germany, the LinuxTag. Last year
> some friends and I organized a BSD booth. The attraction of the BSD
> booth was a VAX geek (me) sitting on a MV II in a BA23 hacking around.
> At one day a strange, beard man with a RedHat came to te booth and
> talked to me. He told me that he had similar MV II systems in racks, but
> he gave them away because his wife... He still has some PMAXen... Was a
> nice talk. The stranger was Alan Cox. :-)

Aye - a nice chap Alan :&)

I sat and chatted to him in a pub in London after Linux Expo 2000 :&)

Showed him my (and a friends) parallelised init scripts, he agreed
parallelisation was the way to go. This is of course on x86 linux boxen
where forking a new sh carries very little overhead, enough for the
parallelisation to outweigh toe fork cost.

-- Matt

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