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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.190833.11189@kithrup.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 91 19:08:33 GMT
References: <5275@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <3182@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Feb12.181720.26323@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Feb12.181720.26323@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> xxremak@csduts1.UUCP (David A. Remaklus) writes:
>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.

You do not buy a Cray to do text processing; if you *need* to do it there,
you can always stick with 64-bit char's (which have some other advantages
8-)).  If you want a fast, interactive, "normal" machine, go with an amdahl,
or, better yet, a supermicro.

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