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Jordan K. Hubbard, On 01-Nov-98 you wrote:
> > I know that making a kernel with -j8 puts a load on the machine, but LA
> > of
> > 3billion is exccessive :-)
>  
>  The alpha is very fast, Simon, you know that.  Loads of over 3 billion
>  hardly faze it! :-)
>  
>  - Jordan
>  
>  P.S. Yeah, guess there are some too-small counter values to track
>  down. :)

This all reminds me the transition from PDP to VAX.  Al these assumptions
about int, long, pointers that blow up.  Much fun.




Sincerely Yours,                 Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
                                             770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro

Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth


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