From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org, jamie@shareable.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use simple_strtoul for unsigned kernel parameters
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:15:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818171554.GA32649@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308181718.h7IHIUwU001800@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:18:30PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> Hmmm, at least some Cray machines require three-phase power, though,
> which is a problem for home use.
Huh? You can get phase converters. It's a common thing to do for home
shops with metal working tools.
But who cares? Nobody is going to run a Cray in their home for more than
a few days, the power draw would get too expensive. So this is well into
"angels in the head of a pin" land.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-18 17:18 [PATCH] use simple_strtoul for unsigned kernel parameters John Bradford
2003-08-18 17:15 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-08-18 19:17 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-18 17:59 John Bradford
2003-08-18 17:40 John Bradford
2003-08-18 17:39 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-18 0:46 Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 10:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-18 12:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 15:32 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-18 15:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 16:43 ` Alan Cox
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