Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Big programs on workstations
Message-ID: <10058@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Mar 88 13:41:24 GMT
References: <1840@winchester.mips.COM> <514@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <1988Mar18.174031.653@utzoo.uucp> <10018@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1916@obiwan.mips.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: average program size

I have heard from a lot of people who say that they regularly run
programs which take days of CPU to complete. What surprises me is that
these were commercial installations in some cases. I guess if salaries
are low enough it's cheaper to wait for results than to buy a little
time on a <favorite big computer>.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me