Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!caesar.cs.montana.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 90 17:31:47 GMT References: <51771@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <100598@convex.convex.com> <52661@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 Even if your MIPS in the workstation are wasted, it might still be worthwhile to put them there. It all depends on how much the MIPS cost. Certainly if you have a 20 MIPS processor in a $2000 box, it really doesn't matter that you only need a 0.5 MIPS processor in a $1800 box... the marginal cost of the extra 19.5 MIPS is low enough that you might as well get them. If they go to waste 95% of the time, who cares? Too bad you can't run NeWS on it and really benefit from those extra server CPU cycles... -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v