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From: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again!
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Date: 13 Jul 90 23:11:17 GMT
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In article <379@e2big.mko.dec.com> gillett@ceomax.dec.com (Christopher Gillett) writes:

>Geez, you guys must be using the wrong iron.  My fine DECstation 3100
>boots up in no time at all.  Maybe you should rush to your nearest
>DEC office and grab a few, eh?  :-)

I just timed it:  80 seconds from the time you type auto in the PROM monitor
until you get to the login window.  Additionally, it takes 33 seconds from
then until you are logged in.

>Wow, I guess we're now fully off the subject of computer architecture.
>Should we move this discussion, or do the system architects find it
>amusing to watch the software guys beat on each other?

Software is the most important part of computer architecture.  It's also the
least well-developed part.  The harware is constantly pushing the limits of
its technology, software mostly hasn't even learned where the limits are yet.

If you design software, you are doing computer architecture.

			Bruce Karsh
			karsh@sgi.com