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Yes, I understand that. TOPS-10 had oodles of customers who did exactly the same thing. The trick is to figure out what can be implemented that is not Rubin-specific but general-user-specific.
Of course. He knows just enough to be dangerous :-). He has a computing need. He tries to "help" by using our lingo. Since his usage of our terms is not quite correct, everybody gets confused because the computer-types start arguing based on their terminology. Herman knows just enough to not be able to figure out the thread drifts out into the Seamantic Sea.
Since this is newsgroup, the original problem never gets addressed until Herman brings up his idea. And then the whole drift recycles.
That buttembly language happens to be the only easy way to make a computer do...
It is possible; see my other posts.
It doesn't today. I've been getting sniffs of computing usage where this kind of fine-tuning is needed. People are just beginning to be able to run calculations and models that, five years ago, had to be scheduled two years ahead on a Cray.
PCs are just now starting to get used seriously. I suggest you fasten your seat belt and figure out how to provide the kind of computer interface that these CPU-intensive runs are going to need. Use Herman as your Token Dummy. He's interested enough to play role and, thus, is a valuable resource.
High performance is extremely important to people who are doing serious computing tasks. These people are NOT computer-types. They do not have the time to waste struggling with soft-hardware. It is our job to provide them with tools so they can get their work done with a minimum of headache.
Yes, that is his solution based on his limited knowledge of how stuff gets implemented.
From perusing his posts, I get the impression that he needs something inserted between himself and the machine... 4 choices a) pencil and paper Decide...
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:12:22 -0500, Herman Rubin I've looked at J, briefly, but haven't used it. It didn't seem particularly mathematically friendly, as the lovely typographical operators of APL seemed to have been...
Ah, but I missed his underlying need for extreme system performance. I also missed that his solution is based on something somebody told him. What I'm trying to do (and it's difficult in this newsgroup medium) is interview the expert (I'm using AI terms now). He is the expert w.r.t. needing certain computing functionality, not us.
This is fun. It's what we did at DECUS all the time.
BAH
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