Interesting Links...

Chris Hocking · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia

For any Mac users out there...

http://www.garagecube.com/opensource/lightcontroller/index.html
http://www.lanbox.com/

Pok · Joined: 18 May 2003

This looks very nifty, and in fact may be an excellent alternative a project we are working on at the moment.

Have you seen or used this particular device?

Thank you very much for the link, it's great!

Chris Hocking · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia

Nah, I'm a PC user.

adam · Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Location: Wodonga

Andy Ciddor · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: Reply...

Chris Hocking · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia

For all those people who don't have any idea what Andy is talking about:

VAXes were 32-bit computer systems from Digital Equipment Corporation (or DEC). They enjoyed huge popularity throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. The VAX was the 32 bit computer that the ancestors of modern UNIXes were made on, and was the standard computer architecture (like the IBM PC is now) of its day. The VAX was also one of the major testbeds for the early Internet.

VAXes come in several shapes and sizes, ranging from the small room sized VAX 11/780 (1970's) through to the desktop sized microVAXes and VAXStations of the 1990's. The VAX architecture and Digital's VAX/VMS operating system are mutually intertwined, so for a review of VAXes see

The VAX Archive

VMS 20th anniversary special

Andy: there's still a heap of geeks working all over the world making things like Linux run on VAX systems. They're not still being made hardware-wise, but they are defiantly still in use...

...And Andy, Adam was only joking and even so, he did say sorry! Wink

As VAX's are completely unrelated to Lighting (unless someone wants to build an Open Source lighting OS for Linux/VAX/BSD), I personally consider this trend CLOSED.