I'm sitting out on the deck in the sun with my laptop playing on RHP while I'm working on a machine at work (Microsoft) and I thought I'd share the specs of the machine I'm using - it's certainly the biggest machine I've ever used and shows how far things have come along since I started in the computer industry.
It's an HP Superdome system with the following:
64 x 1.5GHz Itanium 2 64-bit CPUs
500 Gb (yes, half a terabyte) of memory
750 Gb of disk space
Isn't that astounding? My first computer in 1987 was an Acorn Electron with a 1.6 Mhz 8-bit CPU, 32 Kb of memory and a 360 Kb disk drive!
Paul.
Originally posted by chewieEeh....can you get me one of these? I will let you win a hundred games for that!!!
I'm sitting out on the deck in the sun with my laptop playing on RHP while I'm working on a machine at work (Microsoft) and I thought I'd share the specs of the machine I'm using - it's certainly the biggest machine I've ever used and ...[text shortened]... 6 Mhz 8-bit CPU, 32 Kb of memory and a 360 Kb disk drive!
Paul.
Olav
p.s. I bet you have only 2 mb of video memory😛
Originally posted by CrowleyCustomers use them for very high power database servers (I work on SQL Server) - the current TPCC record was done on one using SQL Server.
I had to wipe the saliva off my keyboard and tape my mouth shut with duct tape.
Holy #$%*!
64 cpu's? Why? What do you use all that processing power for?
Man, Quake must run smoothly on that baby...
Paul.
Originally posted by CrowleyIt's running Win 2003 DS and SQL Server 2000 64-bit.
Do you use that Windows 2000 Datacenter Server (I think that's what it's called) on that hardware?
By the way, have you tried Quake on it? 😛 Just kidding.
Imagine how well it could run RHP, with RHP Live and play-the-computer too!
Wow! That sucker could make this site validate a few board positions a little bit quicker....
Mr Gates? Please? If not for me, what about for the children? [There must be a couple who play here?]
Joking aside, Microsoft have already donated [yes, given, FREE] a copy of Visual Studio .Net to me. This is an expensive piece of software, and I'm very grateful for it. This was during the period when I had my head down on RHP Live. I will be making full use of it again soon when I pick up the live project again and finish it. (When I leave my job, I will have time to do this. Time has always been the limiting factor.)
When I was feeling cheeky one day, I did ask if MS would like to sponsor a complete rewrite of this site using .Net, so it could be used as a refernce site, but alas, that was just too much. 😳 RHP.net sat on an 'HP Superdome' sounds like a nice combination to me. 😀
-Russ
Originally posted by RussJust an aside as I'm no expert in either (prob not even rated an amature), but are you thinking of doing RHP Live as a visual c++ app or in C#?
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Joking aside, Microsoft have already donated [yes, given, FREE] a copy of Visual Studio .Net to me. This is an expensive piece of software, and I'm very grateful for it. This was during the period when I had my head down on RHP Live. I will be making full use of it again soon when I pick up the live project again and finish it. (When I leave my job, ...[text shortened]... Net, so it could be used as a refernce site, but alas, that was just too much....
-Russ
I'm curious to see whether C# apps really take off as opposed to java.
While I've heard good things about C#, i've not seen anyone use it in anger. Well, i prob have somewhere on the net, but never realised.
Its interesting in that one day I might actually read that C# manual in the office. Maybe one day. Then again, I always meant to read a C++ manual and haven't got round to that either...
Originally posted by RussOn a similar note, my Dad retrained to be a technical teacher after he left the Royal Navy. Then school he first taught at was right next to the IBM factory in Greenock but they were pretty stingy with free stuff to support the schools.
Wow! That sucker could make this site validate a few board positions a little bit quicker....
Mr Gates? Please? If not for me, what about for the children? [There must be a couple who play here?]
Joking aside, Microsoft have already donated [yes, given, FREE] a copy of Visual Studio .Net to me. This is an expensive piece of software, and I'm very gra ...[text shortened]... . 😳 RHP.net sat on an 'HP Superdome' sounds like a nice combination to me. 😀
-Russ
So, with me having just emigrated to join Microsoft a few weeks before, he mailed Bill directly (cc'ing me!) asking for a box of mouse mats for the school's computers - I was mortified! However, a week later a box of MS mouse mats turned up at the school, and I still have my job 🙂
Originally posted by !~TONY~!Most of the modern video games developpers use C/C++ ... I don't understand why you say that C++ has a limited scope for games?? Go take a look on the quake 2's source code: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/quake2.zip
C++ rocks. Very easy language, no graphics though. Very limited scope for games if you ask me. All I could make was a Hamster escape game, tic tac toe, and something like checkers, but you win when you get a piece to the other side. I like C++ though. Good times! 😀
Yan
Originally posted by ToeI will never code a Win32 app in anything else. C# is excellent. I worked as Java coder in 97/98 - and it was terrible for client side apps - and I don't think that has changed to this day.
Just an aside as I'm no expert in either (prob not even rated an amature), but are you thinking of doing RHP Live as a visual c++ app or in C#?
I'm curious to see whether C# apps really take off as opposed to java.
While I've heard good things about C#, i've not seen anyone use it in anger. Well, i prob have somewhere on the net, but never realised. ...[text shortened]... ne day. Then again, I always meant to read a C++ manual and haven't got round to that either...
If you want to have a look at the RHP Live work as it stands, you can get it from:
http://www.redhotpawn.com/rhplive/index.php
It actually works just fine if you can find someone to play against. There may be some old games lurking in the queue, so only click on a game you have arranged in advance. (This is one of the existing bugs)
-Russ