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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Processing
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 12:04:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 12:04:52 1987
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In article <2119@mmintl.UUCP> Frank Adams writes:

>We can leave the Crays alone; those machines' time is too valuable to waste
>on making their user interface more friendly, especially since the kind of
>applications they are used for are not interface intensive anyhow.

WRONG....;-)!

>There are natural language database systems on mainframes.
>
>Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
>Ashton-Tate          52 Oakland Ave North         E. Hartford, CT 06108

Frank, and every one else:
While I don't like the word friendly, the end user's time is typically
more valuable that the machine, even $20M machines.  The end goal is the
comprehension of the science, and if you can't get your results back in
time, why use a computer?  Consider the days of the 24-hours weather
forecast which took 27-hours to run on a 7600.  Well, I guess it makes
it easy to check your results. ;-)  Make them more friendly.

I don't think we really have good NL systems.

Geez, this new group has really grown.  I wonder why.  I don't want to
unscribe.  Lots of the stuff is useful to listen to.

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?"
  "Send mail, avoid follow-ups.  If enough, I'll summarize."
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