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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc
Subject: Re: front ends to crays...
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Date: 6 Jun 89 20:11:09 GMT
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In article <5674@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) writes:
}What would make a good front end for a YMP, and why? We really want to
}make a good choice, and like most organizations, this will be our
}first and only Cray... we don't have any first hand experience on
}what make a really good front end.

About 2 years ago I happened to meet the computing resources manager for
the Cray being used by Lockheed's Black Hole project.  She told me they
were using an IBM 3090 for the front end.

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