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From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Be Prepared...
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Date: 16 Feb 91 14:25:46 GMT
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In article <3206@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
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>   Assuming that you have a 1 gigaBYTE bus on that memory, it will take
> 316 years (almost 317) to swap a program in.

The CYBER 205, definitely not the fastest machine in the world, can move
roughly 50 megawords (400 megabytes) per second per pipe.  Now even allowing
for overhead (vector units are limited to 65535 words, and setup costs), this
time will not be doubled.  I see no way to get your pessimistic result.
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