Cray I/O (was: Re: What kinds of things)

[Melinda Shore]

In article <873 at mtxinu.UUCP> shore at mtxinu.com (that's me) writes:
>[]
>Remember also that these are
>word-oriented machines, and no instruction is smaller than 1 word (8
>bytes).  

That's right, I goofed.  Cray instructions come in 16-bit parcel units,
and an instruction is either one or two parcels.  Binaries, however,
are still unexpectly large, and I don't think that my most egregious oops
invalidates the substance of what I was saying.
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Melinda Shore                                     shore at mtxinu.com
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