Cray I/O (was: Re: What kinds of things)

[Michael J. Tighe]

In article <16618 at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> I have also heard that the overhead of sending single character I/O
> requests over the hyperchannel was extremely costly.
 
Yes it is inefficient. Hyperchannel was designed for bulk transfers,
not character oriented I/O. Therefore you run into lot of problems,
such as sporadic output and delays between keystrokes.
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