[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

Mon Nov 25 14:50:17 CST 2002

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:42 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>> 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?
 -Dave
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