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From: mjt@super.ORG (Michael J. Tighe)
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Subject: Re: Cray I/O (was: Re: What kinds of things)
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Date: 4 Jun 89 14:50:41 GMT
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In article <16618@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> I have also heard that the overhead of sending single character I/O
> requests over the hyperchannel was extremely costly.
 
Yes it is inefficient. Hyperchannel was designed for bulk transfers,
not character oriented I/O. Therefore you run into lot of problems,
such as sporadic output and delays between keystrokes.
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