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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cray I/O (was: Re: What kinds of things)
Keywords: Correction
Message-ID: <874@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 23:22:19 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <422@ladcgw.ladc.bull.com> <13688@ncoast.ORG> <4609@alvin.mcnc.org> <424@ladcgw.ladc.bull.com> <4616@alvin.mcnc.org> <16618@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <873@mtxinu.UUCP>
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In article <873@mtxinu.UUCP> shore@mtxinu.com (that's me) writes:
>[]
>Remember also that these are
>word-oriented machines, and no instruction is smaller than 1 word (8
>bytes).  

That's right, I goofed.  Cray instructions come in 16-bit parcel units,
and an instruction is either one or two parcels.  Binaries, however,
are still unexpectly large, and I don't think that my most egregious oops
invalidates the substance of what I was saying.
-- 
Melinda Shore                                     shore@mtxinu.com
Mt Xinu                                  ..!uunet!mtxinu.com!shore