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Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?

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From: Robert Hyatt
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56
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In article <1992Nov18.171658.11722@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.095903.8190@meiko.com>, jim@canopus.meiko.co.uk (James Cownie) writes:
>|> In article <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>, jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>|> |> 
>|> |> 
>|> |> What a silly question.
>|> |> 
>|> |> Blinking lights.  Lots and lots of blinking lights.   well, if one
>|> |> buys a massively parallel supercomputer, one gets blinking lights.
>|> 
>|> You have the wrong technical term here. Those aren't blinking lights, 
>|> they're the "Front panel visualization tool" (Page 6 Intel Paragon 
>|> Supercomputer glossy : order no 203/6/92/10K/GA)
>|> 
>|> -- 
>|> James Cownie 
>|> Meiko Limited
>|> 650 Aztec West
>|> Bristol BS12 4SD
>|> England
>|> 
>|> Phone : +44 454 616171
>|> FAX   : +44 454 618188
>|> E-Mail: jim@meiko.co.uk or jim@meiko.com
>Actually, the "Front panel visualization tool" is a tool that lets you see
>the blinking lights from a workstation.  I don't know what name they give
>the lights themselves.  They probably call them the Blinkium.
>
>Sam


Probably use German:

Das Blinkenlightens



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!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !
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From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
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Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
References: <JET.92Nov17104503@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov18.095903.8190@meiko.com> <1992Nov18.171658.11722@nas.nasa.gov>
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