[SunRescue] good news

[Stefan Skoglund]

Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Nope, just Unicos these days.  They're really not general-purpose
> machines, and really would not benefit from general-purpose operating
> systems.  The processors and I/O sytems are godlike, but they'd be
> useless without the right support from the operating system.  Much of
> the real magic lies in the compilers, which have to be smart enough to
> generate the *right* code for such an exotic (yet amazingly sensible,
> when you look at it) processor design.

Didn't Princeton at one time used a cray as a general processing
machine.
IE equip the scientist or secretary with a x-terminal.

Connect that to the super and adapt the apps to the machine.

A source license from Frame for FrameMaker should allow the
secretary to do his/her work.