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From: xxremak@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (David A. Remaklus)
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Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
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Date: 12 Feb 91 18:17:20 GMT
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In article <3182@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>
>  This implies that there is some computer which can't run UNIX because
>it has efficient instructions, or that some hardware company has left
>out instructions which would make them many times faster.
>
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How about CRAY?  The last time I checked, it was still strictly a word
machine.  Manipulating byte oriented data with 64 bit word oriented
hardware seems kind of slow to me.  It may be a fast processor, but
one would think that byte oriented instructions would sure make text
oriented processing go a lot faster.

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