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- From: dilmore@cray.com (Robert J. Dilmore)
- Subject: Re: Der Blinken Lights: What are people paying for
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.080942.23332@walter.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov17.192804.4410@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Nov18.003655.2629@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:09:41 CST
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- In article <1992Nov18.003655.2629@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.192804.4410@news.eng.convex.com>
- >patrick@convex.COM (Patrick F. McGehearty) writes:
- >Discussion on the C.mmp.
- >>However, current systems have other methods for getting similar information.
- >>Other than being a designer preference for "flash" vs "cool", what benefits
- >>do lots of blinking lights offer, and what should they represent?
- >>I.e. Do people have suggestions for specific hardware events that might
- >>be connected to blinking lights on a massively parallel shared memory super?
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- This may border on Urban Legend but... In the early days of the Connection
- Machine, Disney productions indicated that they wanted a CM for amimation.
- There was one problem, they wanted the red leds that light up when a processor
- cluster is active replaced with red,blue and green. They thought it would be
- neat to try and program the machine so that when it was idle it would have an
- animation of Mickey Mouse or somesuch on the side of the machine. TM refused
- to mod the machine and the sale fell through. Can a TMer verify this?
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- Robert Dilmore
- Cray Research Inc.
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