Re: Taos paper (fwd) (long)
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- Subject: Re: Taos paper (fwd) (long)
- From: rdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:20:35 -0400
- CC: MISC
- In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950816223554.21041d@sun2> (message from Eugen Leitl on Wed, 16 Aug 1995 22:43:50 +0200 (MET DST))
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These people sure are modest, though I'm not sure if I really need to
buy a holy grail.
More to the point, this paper doesn't give a hint of how to design
properly for a taos system. [e.g. what kind of time penalty does
message passing have? Where's the tradeoff between "the complete Open
System" and "programs [that] can take advantage of special purpose
hardware to run specific objects?"
And, as with any sparkling new technology, I really want to know: how
is it being disseminated into the educational system? Any industrial
"literacy requirement" which isn't supported by educators is going to
wither.
[Hmm... I suppose some of these comments might apply to misc as well.]
--
Raul