Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Sienkiew@UDEL-LOUIE.ARPA From: Sienkiew@UDEL-LOUIE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Is this for real? Message-ID: <615@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:32:10 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.615 Posted: Mon Aug 12 00:32:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:52:54 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 8 If you were to arrange your system properly, you could probably overcome some of the problem. I.E. The CRAY 2 has 5 processors (1 for io & 4 for everything else). If you arrange these such that their inertias are in opposing directions, you could run at very high speeds, yet at any time have enough stored energy to halt within 1 cycle (4.1 nsec). Isn't paralellism wonderful?