I'm patient, but when you have a heavily loaded VAX-11/780 (I think this was before the host apple.com was upgraded to a VAX-8650) doing netnews, where even the highly optimized "compress" program beats on the CPU, and a Cray X/MP-48 just sitting there across the LAN ... So, I set up a TCP "compression service" set up on the Cray (bits go in, compressed bits come out; inetd makes this easy and UniCOS came with the "compress") and blasted netnews batches across the 10Mb/s Ethernet from the VAX and captured the results for transmission to Apple's UUCP-based netnews neighbors. It was lots faster that way and it took a large load off the VAX. Unfortunately, I had to discontinue the practice when some of my netnews neighbors complained of corrupted batches; it seems that there were some subtle 32 bit assumptions in compress that I didn't have the time to track down. Still, it was fun to play with a supercomputer at a place where they believed in interactive computing, and didn't charge for CPU time. Then there was the time I ported pathalias to the Cray ... Erik <fair@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf