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From: ktl@wag240.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80-20
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Date: 16 Nov 89 00:21:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1)

In article <6150@drilex.UUCP>, dricejb@drilex (Craig Jackson drilex1) writes:
>From what I saw of the announcement, the 9000's are targeted at 'business',
>not 'scientific', applications.

And that's why they have vector processors :-).  Digital's marketroids
seem to have borrowed ideas from IBM's 3090 people: they're saying
"it's a mainframe" AND "it's a supercomputer."

I think I'll stick with my *KILLER MICROS*, thank you...

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Kian-Tat Lim (ktl@wagvax.caltech.edu, KTL @ CITCHEM.BITNET, GEnie: K.LIM1)