Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!rwwetmore
From: rwwetmore@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Big programs on workstations
Keywords: average program size
Message-ID: <17809@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:15:19 GMT
References: <1840@winchester.mips.COM> <514@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <1988Mar18.174031.653@utzoo.uucp> <10018@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1916@obiwan.mips.COM> <10058@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: rwwetmore@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore)
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In article <10058@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>I have heard from a lot of people who say that they regularly run
>programs which take days of CPU to complete. [ ... ] 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>.

  On the otherhand it may be far less expensive to time-slice an employee
than spend the man-years to move an application to <a bigger machine>, and
then try to link the environments sufficiently to allow it to run :-)

>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
>  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen

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