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In college our ACM chapter named its DEC machine (I think it was a Tru64, but it's so long ago I don't remember) "cray-ymp." If you were a member of the ACM yo
by LgWoodenBadger 7y ago
In college our ACM chapter named its DEC machine (I think it was a Tru64, but it's so long ago I don't remember) "cray-ymp." If you were a member of the ACM you got an account on it, and I used to MUD from it.
One of the MUD admins was astounded when he noticed I was playing from what he thought was a real Cray Y/MP. If I was smarter I would have played along. Alas...
- kjs3 7y agoMissed opportunity for amusement. Funny enough the Y/MP-48 was running Unicos (Cray's mostly-Unix) and someone had compiled nethack or rouge or something similar and was playing it until he had sucked up all the funny-money the department had budgeted for the year (yeah...we got accounted for CPU time, and yeah...someone screwed up the quotas). There was a kerfuffle....