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From: rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff)
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Subject: Re: TITAN 4
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Date: 20 Jun 89 16:12:40 GMT
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In article <3810@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:

>...  There is nothing in the Titan-4 that hasn't
>been done before, in smaller and in larger scale.  It seems to me that the
>announcement of the Titan-4 is about on the same order of interest as the
>announcement of yet another 2 MIPS workstation.


I think the interest in the Titan-4 is because it's the only thing we(=US) have
*now* that is that powerful (except the shuttle).  So it's really as if we
once had 16 MIPS workstations but had abandoned anything faster than 1/2 MIPS.
Then a 2 MIPS workstation would be noteworthy.

   Robert