Re: [Typo ?] What is a Ramanujan ?

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:27:51 -0800

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:45:38 +0000 (UTC), Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER
<peter@langstoeger.at> wrote:

> 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.
>
was the number 1729 present?

> Funny.
> 

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