

This must surely be one of the paramount examples of a "server as a pet", as contrasted with the devops style of systems management: "servers as cattle". Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15 Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux: Just because you can.PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted.AWS adds Linux app streaming alongside Windows to 'greatly lower' cost.However, Chiark is well on its way to being a significant cultural artifact in its own right, as well as demonstrating the remarkable flexibility of its operating system. Going to such lengths to preserve this and keep it running as-is would be way beyond the skill level of all but a few people.



Jackson describes its existing installation as "at the very high end of the installation complexity, and customisation, scale". This was the same year that Intel released the first Pentium processor. The former is from the novel the Player of Games and the latter first appeared in the anthology the State of the Art – both relatively recent when the machine was first commissioned. The names "Chiark" and "Diziet" are from the science fiction of the late Scottish author Iain M Banks, who died from cancer in 2013.
