From: John Hearns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:40 AM
To: Lux, James P; beowulf@beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] MS Cray
. When mainframes first entered the halls of academe, I'm sure the
same sort of discussions arose. Heck, it's why computers like the PDP-8 were
invented.
Jim
Just let me correct you there. Surely PDP-8s were calculators or Data
Processing whatchamacallits,
and emphatically NOT Computer Systems.
(A history lesson is called for here - I cannot remember the exact terminology
which allowed PDPs to be sold to individual labs and departments)
--Sort of like when we buy PCs for the lab, they're "instrument controllers"..
Jim
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