Re: oneAustralia designed on Solaris boxes?

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From: Robert Cohen
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 03:14

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Stephen Ward <sward@ozemail.com.au> writes:

>slb@fs.com.au (Stuart Burnfield) wrote:
> >In article <3jj6sb$e5d@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au>,
> >Carl Brewer <carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> >>The rather interesting sinking of the oneAustralia yacht in the Americas
> >>Cup is a bit funny, not that solaris could have caused any problems
> >>in the CAD software used, but Sun did sponsor it, it would seem fair
> >>to assume that Solaris was the O/S.
> >>
> >Well, at least they had a recent backup :^)
> >
> >You have to feel sorry for Sun, seeing their logo prominently displayed
> >on the back of the boat as it sank rapidly into the briny.
> >-- 

>Sun here in Sydney were saying that the one that sunk was designed on the SGI
>box that the syndicate borrowed.

>Yeah right... I thought it was just sending mail....

A significant amount of computing for the oneAustralia yacht
was done on the SparcCentre 2000 here at ANU.
I presume computing was done elsewhere as well.

-- 
Robert Cohen		                       email: robert@cs.anu.edu.au
PhD Student,  Dept of Computer Science,
Australian National University.            ===============================
----------------------> Code fast, crash young, and leave a pretty core!

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From: robert@cs.anu.edu.au (Robert Cohen)
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