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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code
Message-ID: <2011@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 90 01:30:39 GMT
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In article <37193@mips.mips.COM>, rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
> In article <798@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes:
> >This is quite correct, and therefore we should stop using personal
> >automobiles, too.  Instead we should use taxis, car pools, and
> >other forms of better sharing the same basic hardware.  This will
> >increase the <10% utilization of most cars.
 
> If you will follow transportation debate, you will find that there are
> many voices agreeing with your strawman.  The difference is that, unlike
> in the computing world, the networking, connectivity and flexibility of
> mass transportation is unsatisfactory in most areas.

I have opposed sharing in the transportation debate, and I oppose it here.

In the computing world, the networking, connectivity and flexibility of
sharing non-specific resources is unsatisfactory in most areas.  Other than
such things as text files in ASCII, nothing is easily shared unless the same
machine, or at best the same type of machine, is used, and it may even be
necessary to use the same language.  Even different compilers for the same
language can give problems.  A Maserati and a Yugo are more similar than
different computers.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)