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In article <1992Nov18.003655.2629@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>In article <1992Nov17.192804.4410@news.eng.convex.com>
>patrick@convex.COM (Patrick F. McGehearty) writes:
>Discussion on the C.mmp.
>>However, current systems have other methods for getting similar information.
>>Other than being a designer preference for "flash" vs "cool", what benefits
>>do lots of blinking lights offer, and what should they represent?
>>I.e. Do people have suggestions for specific hardware events that might
>>be connected to blinking lights on a massively parallel shared memory super?


   This may border on Urban Legend but... In the early days of the Connection
Machine, Disney productions indicated that they wanted a CM for amimation.
There was one problem, they wanted the red leds that light up when a processor
cluster is active replaced with red,blue and green. They thought it would be
neat to try and program the machine so that when it was idle it would have an
animation of Mickey Mouse or somesuch on the side of the machine. TM refused
to mod the machine and the sale fell through. Can a TMer verify this?

Robert Dilmore
Cray Research Inc.