Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg
From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Curb feelers (was: Cray architecture)
Message-ID: <505@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 14:37:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: xios.505
Posted: Mon Apr  4 09:37:38 1988
References: <7762@alice.UUCP> <418@ole.UUCP> <3216@phri.UUCP> <1574@osiris.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1574@osiris.UUCP> mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>	Maybe computers could issue an impressive spine chilling whine when
>the load average gets high - I see spoilers, air dams, MIPS-meters, and curb-
>feelers as integral parts of the next generation of super-computers.

Don't laugh - I remember a (now ancient) Honeywell 66/60 that came with
an IBM selectric as a console, and had a little mechanical guage that
measured CPU utilization.  Back to the future? :-)




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