Cray Porn (was Re: [geeks] big mike?)

Ken Hansen geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 15 07:02:48 CDT 2001


Are you saying that the bash shel doesn't vectorize nicely? ;^)

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: Cray Porn (was Re: [geeks] big mike?)


> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:01:39PM -0700, koyote at koyote.cx wrote:
> > Could I fund a cray by selling shell acounts?
> 
> Crays really arent built for "interactive" use.  Company I worked
> for had a J90 - which kicked ass - but a shell on it was like using
> a 386 over a 300 baud modem.  It was tuned for big batch mass jobs,
> not interactivity...



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