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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray 2 has 2GW address
Message-ID: <416@micropen>
Date: 25 Feb 88 14:02:39 GMT
References: <9495@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <3815@megaron.arizona.edu> <235@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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Summary: not with my tax $$$$ please!

In article <235@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, fouts@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts) writes:
> In article <9653@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 
> >While there are always problems which could be solved to another
> >significant digit with more power, even on the Cray2, which can have up
> 
> By keeping around 20 active jobs, we can still give good interactive
> response, and "batch" throughput an order of magnitude better than
> most mainframes.  You haven't lived until you've run on a machine
> where GNU emacs is considered a small process. ;-)

I know most of these CRAYs are used in DoD research on important things like
bombs and SDI, but my running an EDITOR (ie. slow interactive process)
on a CRAY--presumably payed for with my tax dollars.  Ouch!  Can't you
find any good emacs for a VT100 on a VAX11/780 to run twenty editor jobs?
(I bet every government facility has tons of workhorse CPU for editor
sessions rather than that premium CRAY time.)

-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
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