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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: VERY LARGE main memories
Message-ID: <1645@ames.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 12:40:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  8 12:40:50 1986
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Gawd, you guys on the net!  Come on!

So VAX/Unix oriented, so blinded!

The Cray is a word oriented machine.  Take out the factor of 8 from all
of your calculations.  You can tell a person's thinking by the words they
choose.  The Cray-2 is a 256 MW not a 2 GB machine.  These are not the same
because the conversion is non trivial.  Crays are word oriented machines.
Anyone who says "2 GB" is showing a great deal of naive.  Get off your
VAXen an try Univacs (36-bit), IBM's inverted bit order, and other systems.

>From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
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