> What is the irc server that #tclug is hosted on? I looked in the > archives and saw both irc.mn-linux.org and irc.real-time.com. However, > cavalier.real-time.com times out on me. cavalier.real-time.com was a sparc 1+, which was so slow it made a 386 look peppy. it started dropping connections after the 3rd person connected to it. personally, I think the coolest use of an IBM z-series mainframe, would be an IRC server. :) systems designed to run with 30,000 people logged into them simultaneously, ought to make *really* nice IRC servers. no more netsplits. :) Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700