eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (11/29/89)
I try to leave, and I get these mail notes: "Hey come back there's an
interesting discussion on..."
Paul Rodman makes some good points. I was in the audience video taping
Eugene (does news echo?) at SC'89. Many of us could have easily shot
him down (memory as a good example), but I think he serves as a good
battering ram to the concept of centralized computer centers.
Oh I may happen to work for one, but we are quite decentralized, we
emphasize workstations.
I think Eugene's words should be used as a banner to strike fear into
the hearts of old dinosaurs everywhere. That is how you go about
getting solutions. Doug Pase and I were reviewing the footage I shot
and Brooks is great, he brought some fun and thinking into what could
have been a somewhat stuffy conference. Some supercomputer people
tend to be that way (too much money).
These managers do not see that our electronics all comes from the
same basic technology, so it might as well be as small as possible 8)
[Yes I know], no the technical point is that we need the next level
of integration. The solution does not come by continuing to stuff
ever more into the same boxes, the economies do not scale linearly
(but their management thinking does). Anyways, it was fun reviewing
the tape. He should have given the Usenet (you guys who posted like Hugh)
some credit. 8)
Another gross generalization from
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
one of the other eugene's of many on this net
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"If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology."
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Support the ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROSbrooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) (12/01/89)
In article <5669@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >Eugene (does news echo?) at SC'89. Many of us could have easily shot >him down (memory as a good example), but I think he serves as a good Stay tuned for THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER MEMORY CHIPS! Soon to be released in reputable movie theaters everywhere... brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp
brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) (12/01/89)
In article <5669@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >Eugene (does news echo?) at SC'89. Actually, Eugene, the talk titled "Attack of the Killer Micros" complete with the the horrific postscript image, had been presented at LLNL in a handful of times before the term was introduced to the USENET. The USENET discussions certainly did contribute to the state of tune of the presentation, however. I am going to have to post the clever postscript artwork of Ken Skennel of LLNL some day. brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp