[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Eric Dittman]

> >>    I still can't wrap my brain around the concept of doing realtime
> >> processing on a machine with the interrupt latency of a VAX.  I love
> >> 'em, but quick to service interrupts they ain't. :-(
> >
> > They were quite popular at one time.
> 
>    Yes, that much I know...what I can't figure out is *why*.  Was 
> VAXELNs API that good?  What do you remember about it?

I haven't touched it in a long time.  From memory, it felt like
I was programming a VMS system with a lot of the extra stuff
pulled out, but that could have been a function of the the
compiler I was using.  I believe the ELN programming environment
is still on the CONDIST.
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