eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (12/24/84)
Re: Is 64-bits enough? Well, it's nice to see some life on this discussion in this group. If any of you are ambitious enough to build such a beast, I would be willing to run programs on it. On the subject of benchmarks and 'figures of merit': It is unfortunate what uninformed management does to take and warp the results of benchmark tests. Benchmarks can be quite useful. Now lets see, our Cray costs $15 million times....... :-) --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA