nzm10@amdahl.UUCP (Neal Macklin) (07/02/85)
Anyone know if Cray 2 unix is a multiuser system? Someone told me it was designed to be a single or very limited number of terminals system, mainly to be used from the system console. I'm not sure I believe that. -- Neal Macklin (408) 737-5214 ...{hplabs,ihnp4}!amdahl!nzm10 [There are no opinions expressed in this article].
root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (07/02/85)
(Question about whether the CRAY-II is time-shared UNIX.) Several months ago I spent an afternoon with a Cray Salesman about the CRAY-II. The description at the time was a 60MIPS front end processor "just running UNIX" (by just I mean as we are accustomed to.) The suggested configs included direct terminal access as well as remote (net) access. As I understood it, that 60mips processor is *not* the Cray-II engine, just a front end for development and job staging (not bad...just send one of those!) Add to that 2GB main memory, solid state disks and it should run a pretty mean system (I think the main memory was shared tho not sure.) Hey, it's fun to shop for Crays! Small *is* beautiful but big can be a rush... Anyone with more up to date info about how it actually turned out (this was still during development), please respond. -Barry Shein, Boston University