gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (03/16/90)
Speaking of Seymour Cray, has anyone viewed the 72-minute ACM
videotape of a Cray lecture (presumably from the recent supercomputer
conference), for sale from ACM for about $35 (it was advertised in a
recent ACM mailing of ~100 business reply-mail cards)? Is it worth
the bucks?
Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliesseanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) (03/19/90)
In article <79700032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >has anyone viewed the 72-minute ACM >videotape of a Cray lecture (presumably from the recent supercomputer >conference), for sale from ACM for about $35 (it was advertised in a >recent ACM mailing of ~100 business reply-mail cards)? Is it worth >the bucks? That depends. I've seen it, and the sound has some really bad problems in places. His talk doesn't give a whole lot of meat, but it's got some interesting (and sometimes amusing) stories in it, and some pretty neat graphs and pictures. As to whether it's worth it: well, I'm biased. Seymour is *god*, you see, so, of course, *I* think it's worth it. If you're one of those heathens who only think that he's a brilliant man, then it may not be. -- -----------------+ Sean Eric Fagan | "Time has little to do with infinity and jelly donuts." seanf@sco.COM | -- Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck), _Magnum, P.I._ (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.