Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!decvax!purdue!gatech!hubcap!Steve From: Steve Stevenson (fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu) Newsgroups: comp.hypercube Subject: Comments about change of name Message-ID: <963@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 11 Feb 88 19:08:52 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.UUCP Lines: 30 Approved: hypercube@hubcap.clemson.edu From johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu Thu Feb 11 10:46:09 1988 While comp.parallel is a better name than comp.hypercube, the best name is comp.arch.parallel. Some might say that parallel programming is a software topic, not an architecture topic. I wish that were true, but it isn't. Ralph Johnson [ Comment. I thought of that, but I think the same argument as we have against "comp.hypercube" apply here. For example, theoreticians or software engineers might say "Oh, that's machine implementation only." Our readership spans a wide range of interests. Comments? ] ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ehud Shapiro Subject: hypercube ==> parallel I second the motion. A point to note: there is a newsgroup called parsym, for parallel symbolic computation. I haven't seen much of it lately, but perhaps it should be united with comp.parallel as well. Ehud Shapiro [ Comment. Good suggestion. I'll check it out when we get at bit further on. ]