[rescue] sparcstation 330

Ken Hansen rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Sep 27 23:00:06 CDT 2001


Hey, if I could meld Xeyes with a load-level program, I could get an
interesting display (eyes cross as load increases), then, to really run with
the idea, I could develop an Xsweatgland program that would cause beads of
"sweat" would "emerge" out of the background image as the CPU load
increased...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] sparcstation 330


> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:21:10PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > The clock speed of nearly every new system precludes any sort of
meaningful
> > display, I suspect - data and address bits at 133 MHz FSB would look
like a
> > blur...
> > At 1 MHz, it looks a bit nicer...
> > Ken
>
> This was more of a "xload" type thing - the lights lit up according to
> percentage of CPU usage, or some such.  they'd bounce up and down with
> normal usage...
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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