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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Re: Corrigenda (24-bit addresses)
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 23:42:52 EST
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> out well ahead.  You can build a 10+ MIPS bit-slice engine for about
> the same cost as a single 32032-based engine.  It'll be harder to
> program than a single-32032 system, but I'd guess that it wouldn't
> be any harder than programming your 12-CPU system.  Besides, we were
> talking raw CPU cycles versus price.
> -- 
> Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug

In any discussion about cost of a computer system the programmer cost,
the BIGGEST cost, can't be ignored.  You take your slicer and I'll take
the 12 cpu 32032 system, for which I already have parallel programs ready
to go, and we will see whos work gets done first!

No more mister nice guy!