Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS Message-ID: <5669@eos.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 22:11:27 GMT Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 34 I try to leave, and I get these mail notes: "Hey come back there's an interesting discussion on..." Paul Rodman makes some good points. I was in the audience video taping Eugene (does news echo?) at SC'89. Many of us could have easily shot him down (memory as a good example), but I think he serves as a good battering ram to the concept of centralized computer centers. Oh I may happen to work for one, but we are quite decentralized, we emphasize workstations. I think Eugene's words should be used as a banner to strike fear into the hearts of old dinosaurs everywhere. That is how you go about getting solutions. Doug Pase and I were reviewing the footage I shot and Brooks is great, he brought some fun and thinking into what could have been a somewhat stuffy conference. Some supercomputer people tend to be that way (too much money). These managers do not see that our electronics all comes from the same basic technology, so it might as well be as small as possible 8) [Yes I know], no the technical point is that we need the next level of integration. The solution does not come by continuing to stuff ever more into the same boxes, the economies do not scale linearly (but their management thinking does). Anyways, it was fun reviewing the tape. He should have given the Usenet (you guys who posted like Hugh) some credit. 8) Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov one of the other eugene's of many on this net "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Support the ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com