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From: ram@nucsrl.UUCP (Renu Raman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: comp.arch.par-no more Tshirts
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 19:14:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 19:14:17 1987
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      Well, the response has been terrific and we are out of stock on Tshirts.
Many requested the flame suit ($34.95) as they had firey topics on mind.
So all readers who want to say their Nays/Yeahs be warned that you are
not guaranteed to get the Tshirt/flame suit.  The organizing commitee
has reserved some flame suits for those readers who get flamed badly. 
So, don't worry.  Go ahead and air your opinions - at least a flame suit
is waiting for you.

     
      Coming to the specifics, I got more than 25+ responses.  Now comes
the second part.  Whom do I contact to start the newsgroup.  Is it the
guys at cbosgd/gatech or ...?  Anybody knowing this please let me know.


      D.E.Stevenson (fpst@hubcap) mentioned about existence of comp.hypercube.
 As Laura Weinstein responded, the intention for comp.arch.par was to
discuss/fight over all sorts of parallel architectures (shared/interconnect/
systolic and functional/reduction/graph reduction/dataflow .....)
& other parallel processing issues.  Maybe the name comp.arch.par would 
suggest "restricted to parallel architectures only". If need be we can
call it as comp.parallel.  I guess, the majority of the readers are interested
in Parallel Processing in general which includes Algorithms, architectures,
OS, VLSi, benchamrks, market, manufacturers etc etc.  As and when a particular
sub-field starts generating sufficient traffic/interest we can have a separate
newgroup.  (wonder how many newgroups will exist 10 years from now).
Today hypercube is the most popular interconnect based architecture and the 
traffic out there warrants aseaparate newsgroup.  

      Also, I would like to inform you of the existence of comp.sys.transputer
(not everywhere yet - for mailing list inclusion send mail to 
tranputer-request@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu).

      Bye and please don't swamp our mmdf mailer with more "Yeahs".

      Watch for comp.*par* (!!)

Renu Raman
 
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P.S1:Is there any interest on bibliography for logic programming architectures?
    I have a reasonable collection - close 80+ and am willing to accept more
    references or share this with person(s) interested.  Its in refer format.