[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:42 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>>    I still can't wrap my brain around the concept of doing realtime
>> processing on a machine with the interrupt latency of a VAX.  I love
>> 'em, but quick to service interrupts they ain't. :-(
>
> They were quite popular at one time.

   Yes, that much I know...what I can't figure out is *why*.  Was 
VAXELNs API that good?  What do you remember about it?

     -Dave

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