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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.194941.17632@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:49:41 GMT
- References: <PCG.92Dec11162630@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.134531.3253@athena.mit.edu> <PCG.92Dec23144916@decb.aber.ac.uk> <Bzpzwq.18q@news.udel.edu>
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- In article <Bzpzwq.18q@news.udel.edu>, mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
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- | Although I don't think it was ever done, the world's fastest text
- | editor could probably have been written for the ETA-10, which had a
- | bewildering variety of instructions for copying and searching chunks of
- | its bit-addressable memory at vector speeds. The Cray machines could
- | be competitive, but the lack of byte addressability makes working with
- | text awkward and relatively slow.
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- Would you believe a Cray2 runs troff slower than a Sun? I have some
- old results which certainly seem to show this, and having used text
- editors on the Cray I'm willing to believe it.
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