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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Who wants faster machines?
- References: <BxM81s.LxL@apollo.hp.com> <1992Nov18.012919.2493@cs.uow.edu.au> <1992Nov18.162956.2990@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:03:52 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov18.012919.2493@cs.uow.edu.au> pdg@cs.uow.edu.au
- (Peter Gray) writes:
- >>"who cares?". At our site we have ~100 SUN's.
- >>No HP, no DEC, no RS6000. How many of our SUN users want
- >>a faster machine? About 2. For the rest 10 Mips (SS1 type speed)
- >>is plenty.... How many banks need 100 Mips on peoples desktops?
-
- This is a joke right?
- You don't happen to be relatives of the engineers who told John Watson
- that there wasn't a market for computers?
- Should we stop all work on "Grand Challenge problems?"
- I know John McCarthy posted that it is foolish to do research on turbulence.
- Do you mean we should tell people to stop doing things like modeling
- the AIDS virus? Slower machines are enough? Or the 23 other kinds of
- modelling and analysis problems......
-
- This person is a CS major? Faculty? Boy have we got problems.
- To answer the number of banks: a lot, I had a discussion of econometric
- modelling at the Hackers Conference with Jordan Hayes who works for a
- brokerage firm, now. They take their computing seriously. It's a foolish
- bank who does not take their computing seriously these days.
-
- Confusing.....
-
- In article <1992Nov18.162956.2990@ncar.ucar.edu> pack@acd.ucar.edu
- (Daniel Packman) writes:
- >As has been said, who cares if the payroll program that runs overnight
- >takes 8 hours or 8 minutes? Indeed, in certain situations speed is
- >not that important. For us,
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- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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