[pm-h] Nostalgic Project

[Julian Brown]

Guys

After Wade's code review of his sparkline code, that was written in a
different time and place, but is still cool.   I propose a nostalgic look
at a project I worked on in the late 80's or early 90's before Linux was
available, or even the Intertubes, at the next meeting.   I originally
wrote this on Micro$oft Xenix (you read that right a Micro$oft Unix
variant).  I was working in computational science at the time simulating
Gas and Gas Liquid platforms.

I long ago lost the code, and the paper I wrote, but I remember the main
tenets and have started creating a set of slides on it.  I called the
project "Parallel Objective" and wanted it to work on a "Connection
Machine" which unfortunately I did not have access to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

They did not have Github back then or an easy way to do Open Source like we
have now.   I never got the project off the ground but would be interested
to see if you like the project and would like me to present my more up to
date version (no code is written), especially from a security standpoint.
Back then security beyond a login was not known.

If it is still slightly relevant, I might build it after your review.  A
lot of work on parallel computing in computational science has happened
since then.

Are you interested?

Julian
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