[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Thu Apr 29 23:20:35 CDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:02:37PM -0400, Steve Sandau wrote:
> Reminds me of someone here who said that everything runs NetBSD, and 
> mentioned a furnace as an example.
> 
> Recently the control unit on my (hot water) furnace died. I looked at 
> the sensors, the controls, and the logic it had to understand, looked at 
> the stack of computer hardware in the corner, and thought... gee, I 
> wonder...
> 
> I did finally have a furnace control put in, but I thought it would be 
> *so* *cool* to say that my *furnace* ran NetBSD. My wife did not think 
> that was *nearly* as cool as I did though...

DJ Delorie is building a HVAC controller for his house that runs
Linux....


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