2010-03-08
Blast from the past today: I tried to su ...
Blast from the past today: I tried to subscribe to a surfnet mailinglist and the response had this bit of information:Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 0.000 sec Device I/O: 19 Overhead CPU: 0.016 sec Paging I/O: 143 CPU model: 2-CPU 2.5GHz Xeon L5420 6M (2048M)I remember these lines in status messages when I first got in touch with mailing lists and listservers in 1992. Back then LISTSERV mostly ran on mainframes where this type of information at the end of a job was normal. Messages from LISTSERV used to have as subject back then "Output of job .." suggesting real batch processing.