Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Curb feelers (was: Cray architecture)
Message-ID: <499@splut.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 88 00:44:25 GMT
References: <7762@alice.UUCP> <418@ole.UUCP> <3216@phri.UUCP> <1574@osiris.UUCP> <505@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <505@xios.XIOS.UUCP> greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks) writes:
>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? :-)

OK...I give up. How did this work? Was it just a meter measuring the
duty cycle of the wait signal, or was it something much more deserving
to be entered in the annals of computer kloogery?

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Let's rename it talk.bizarre.Kent.Paul.Dolan.for.President.in.88!