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In article <93190.164559AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>, Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>>Does anyone have an X Windows based public domain PostScript
>>previewer that runs on a Cray YMP ?    I've checked out
>>GhostScript, but it apparently hasn't been ported to YMPs,
>>and I'm not enough of a C hacker to do it.

> Uh, don't you have somebody who *is* enough of a C hacker? I mean,
> I have a hard time imagining somebody getting a Cray and not being
> a C hacker or hiring one.

Boy, kids today don't know the value of a dollar anymore. Has
computing advanced so much that there are Cray cycles floating
around for whoever wants to use them for whatever trivial purpose
they want to? I remember days when there wasn't even an editor
available on a cray because the CPU cycles were too valuable to
waste on something as trivial as editing. One edited one's
programs on a VAX or IBM, did a test compile there, and then
moved everything to the Cray. Yes, that was probably overkill,
but I can't imagine there being any benefit to running GS or
somesuch on a Cray. Cray cycles have got to still be worth
_something_, no? And surely you have something else at your site
which GS could be run on. If people can live with it on 386s and
the like I'm sure that a Cray is overkill (although I must admit
that the prospect of that kind of power applied to typesetting
does make me salivate a little ;-).

-dh

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