eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (06/25/91)
The Conference just held in Santa Clara was dull.
I would hope that most companies in attendence didn't lose money.
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
{uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugeneslamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) (06/25/91)
In article <1991Jun24.172633.5978@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >The Conference just held in Santa Clara was dull. >I would hope that most companies in attendence didn't lose money. It wasn't a conference. It was a trade show. I hope the organizer *did* lose money. :-> spl (the p stands for pondering the copy of Pixel thrust upon me by a mysterious person with a back pack...) -- Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- (408) 646-2752 -- a guest at network.ucsd.edu -- NPS Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943 "When people are programming virtual 5-D webs of glowing spidersilk by pure thought power -- there will still be hackers." T.Neff in alt.folklore.computers
dprcxm@marais.ARCO.COM (Chuck Mosher) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun24.172633.5978@nas.nasa.gov>, eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: > The Conference just held in Santa Clara was dull. > I would hope that most companies in attendence didn't lose money. > I got a lot out of this conference. Good presentations by users from industry, a lot of equipment in a small area, plenty of lively discussions on parallel processing. I was especially encouraged by the progress in mass storage systems. We need Terabytes near-line with 10 MB/s transfer rates, 100 Gbytes on-line with 100 MB/s rates. Products are now showing up that can deliver these rates. The panel discussion featuring top executives from Cray, Convex, Intel, and NCube was especially illuminating. Everybody's talking MPP. Good news for us users. -- ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7-- | Chuck Mosher | Internet : ccm@arco.com | Who needs an editor | | ARCO, Plano, TX | Telephone: (214)754-6468 | when you have ISPF? | ************************************************************************
eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (06/27/91)
Oh, one possible outcome of this meeting....
I was talking with Bence Gerber of CRI, Ron Levine, and others.
Richard Friedman are you reading this?
We are thinking of holding a ten year reunion (next year) of our
failed attempt to start ACM/SIGBIG (in the local Bay Area).
It will be ten years ago that Mary Fowler, George Michael, Marcie Smith,
and I tried. We can hold a wake for Sid. We should also invite
Ken Muira, Ron Z.* [the last name in the IBM Santa Teresa phone as
he called himself.] We could also invite some of the local speakers
we had at the time on various platforms and applications (John George
and Nelson Bye from Convex are still around).
Mary unfortunately did not get enough support from management
and is now at PG&E Nuclear. I resigned because I felt I appeared a
political detriment for a few who didn't think WWII ended,
but I ran the SIGGRAPH local group for a successful term (and we
did cover supercomputing).
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
{uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugenerchrd@well.sf.ca.us (Richard Friedman) (06/29/91)
eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >Oh, one possible outcome of this meeting.... >I was talking with Bence Gerber of CRI, Ron Levine, and others. >Richard Friedman are you reading this? >We are thinking of holding a ten year reunion (next year) of our >It will be ten years ago that Mary Fowler, Yes indeed I'm reading this! Sounds like a good idea, especially now that things are changing so fast in the big computer world. Long time CDC/CRAY sites are changing their stripes. Just noticed that the Univ of London is replacing their Cray YMP with a CONVEX. A move away from Minnesota computer technology to Texas! And Cray lost out to Tokyo over in Canada with the Weather service. SO we'd better have a meeting and nostalize one last time .. -- /\=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/\ \/Richard Friedman (415)540-5216 | rchrd@well.sf.ca.us \/ /\Pacific-Sierra Rsrch (Berkeley) | or well!rchrd@apple.com /\ \/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\/