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- From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175603.1760@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov18.095903.8190@meiko.com> <1992Nov18.171658.11722@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.171658.11722@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.095903.8190@meiko.com>, jim@canopus.meiko.co.uk (James Cownie) writes:
- >|> In article <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>, jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
- >|> |>
- >|> |>
- >|> |> What a silly question.
- >|> |>
- >|> |> Blinking lights. Lots and lots of blinking lights. well, if one
- >|> |> buys a massively parallel supercomputer, one gets blinking lights.
- >|>
- >|> You have the wrong technical term here. Those aren't blinking lights,
- >|> they're the "Front panel visualization tool" (Page 6 Intel Paragon
- >|> Supercomputer glossy : order no 203/6/92/10K/GA)
- >|>
- >|> --
- >|> James Cownie
- >|> Meiko Limited
- >|> 650 Aztec West
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- >|> England
- >|>
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- >|> E-Mail: jim@meiko.co.uk or jim@meiko.com
- >Actually, the "Front panel visualization tool" is a tool that lets you see
- >the blinking lights from a workstation. I don't know what name they give
- >the lights themselves. They probably call them the Blinkium.
- >
- >Sam
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- Probably use German:
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- Das Blinkenlightens
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- !Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences !
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