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From: leech@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray 2 has 2GW address
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Date: 1 Mar 88 02:12:06 GMT
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In article <9720@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>he investment of 2-4 minutes of a
>programmer or engineer or physicist's time to move the file to a
>"suitable" machine, edit, and move it back is simply not cost effective
>as compared with doing short edits on the target machine.
>...
>I agree that the idea of using a Cray2 as an editor is intuitively poor,
>but after consideration it is quite cost effective.

    Um, does Cray Unix support NFS? This is another way to offload
editing, assuming that people are not using dumb terminals directly
connected to the Cray, of course. Is this a bad assumption?

    I redirected this to comp.misc since it seems to have nothing to
do with architecture anymore.

    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be
      resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working.''
	- Kenneth Grahame, _The Wind in the Willows_