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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt
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Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 11:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 10 11:35:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Sep 10 10:35:00 1986


> 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.
> 
> eugene miya

You're off track here, Eugene. 2GB = 256 M on any machine where a double
precision floating point number occupies 64 bits. Even on VAXen. The Cray's
`large' memory is comparable, wherever you're talking about large scientific
problems (which about half of us are).

Your exasperation is worthy, but the timing is off.

Maybe I'm UNIX oriented, but I'm hardly VAX preoccupied. Look who I work for.

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    USEnet:  ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
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