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From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga DSP
Message-ID: <Mar.15.20.18.19.1990.21044@pilot.njin.net>
Date: 16 Mar 90 01:18:19 GMT
References: <14002@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Organization: Drew University/NJIN
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In article <14002@snow-white.udel.EDU> kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) writes:

>    Tom Limoncelli wrote:
>    < -- Scientific Visualization often requires a CRAY.  How many people
>    <would settle for 1/2 a CRAY all to themselves at this price instead of
>    <millions of dollars for a CRAY that they have to share with other
>    <researchers?
Looking at my notes, I see that the "1/2 a cray" phrase was coined by
John Cadona.  I understand that it might have been a hyperbole.

[ cray-bashing and cray-defending deleted ]

> sorry, I know this isn't comp.sys.supercomputers, but I can't resist the
> opportunity to cray-bash :-).

Wait a second; some really nice guys from Cray almost saved my life at
Usenix last January.  Don't knock Crays! :-)

-Tom
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