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From: jet@uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: IBM RISC 6000
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Date: 27 Dec 90 14:33:05 GMT
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In article <12380@hubcap.clemson.edu> fay@wpi.wpi.edu (Peter R Fay) writes:
>Does anyone have anything bad to say about it's Flop performance? Is

As long as you aren't trying to do *anything* else (like run a window
system, serve files, print documents, etc) you'll get good performance.
Unfortunately, the 6000 seems to go catatonic while it context switches.
I don't know where this problem lies (hopefully it's software and
will be fixed in a future upgrade).

The RT-based 8CE is rumored to be the model on which a new "parallel
6000" beast will be built.  If this is the case, I might have to
actually give in and say I like an IBM product. :-)


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