Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!bu-cs!root From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Cray Unix Message-ID: <457@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 15:08:49 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.457 Posted: Tue Jul 2 15:08:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:44:35 EDT References: <1729@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 19 (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