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- From: dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine)
- Subject: America's cup boats and computers (1 of several)
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214943.129692@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:49:43 GMT
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- And now for something a little out of the ordinary. I was thumbing through
- that classic sailing magazine, "Information Technology at Work," a supplement
- top Dr. Dobbs, and came across an article on computers used on some of the
- America's cup boats. I'm going to post bits and pieces of this over the next
- couple of days, as time permits. It's somewhat specialized stuff, but I think
- enough people will find it worthwhile. Let me know what you think. The
- article's
- writer seems to have talked mostly to the New Zealand and Starts & Stripes
- campaigns, but there's plenty of interesting stuff just from that.
-
- Hardware trivia:
-
- S&S:
- On board:
- Ockam (Z80)
- Grid 386 with MS-DOS, running OckamSoft 2
- On Shore:
- Several HP vectra 486 boxes, running DOS and Windows
-
-
- New Zealand:
- On board:
- HP 9000/380 with 32M of ram, 660 of disk,
- mulitiple HP-95LX palmstops with serial interfaces
- Custom serial & A/D boards for data collection
- on board ethernet, with off-board serial-ip connection
- to tenders and other boats during stablemate testing
- On shore:
- 5 HP 9000/380s each with 32M of ram, and an agregate of
- 1.8 gigabytes of disk.
-
- Next: Strain gauages and multi-boat trimming
-
- David W. Levine -- dwl@watson.ibm.com -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. --
- "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
- aim" - George Santayana
-