Re: [Typo ?] What is a Ramanujan ?

From: Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER (peter_at_langstoeger.at)
Date: 11/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:45:38 +0000 (UTC)

In article <newscache$pcuz7i$i02$1@news.sil.at>, peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER) writes:
>Browsing (again) over the 7.3-2 Feature list on
>
> http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/os/v732features.html
>
>I stumbled over a feature "Fastpath for Ramanujan" (just after "Fastpath for
>PEdriver"). What is this ? The name of the hacker which changed the list ???

Found the answer myself in http://www.openvms.digital.com/wizard/wiz_6431.html
It is/was the codename for a hardware project.

        The "Ramanujan" project resulted in the KZPDC series backplane RAID
        controller, with driver support in OpenVMS V7.3-1 and later.

Funny.

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