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To: Scumbria who wrote (130911)3/26/2001 2:50:15 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Scumbria, <<<Tasks which require lots of DRAM bandwidth are better run in special purpose processors, like graphics processors or network processors>>>

In many (most)large US Corporations, existing applications running in giant computer networks were written in Cobol and Assembler lanuguage before PC's and the Internet became ubiguitious beginning in the mid 90's.

Most of the user complaints on the legacy systems are that the existing programs are not user friendly. They are not the WYSIWYG applications that most of us PC users are familiar with. Their systems are mostly character based and lacking pull down menues, user friendly graphics, and pointing devices that make using a computer a lot easier.

CIO's have not rewritten the applications using visual programming tools largely because they have throughput issues to deal with and the existing hardware is not up to handling the problems. Of course there are many complex issues involved in this environment.

When hundreds of customer service reps require response time in fractions of a second, waiting a few seconds each time they press the enter key breaks the rythm and also slows down productivity enormously.

And, when you also need to use off the shelf software, to have to have specialized graphics and network processors is not something that CIO's would like to get involved in.

Perhaps P4 designers had also targeted this market.

Mary
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