Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!portia!hanauma!rick From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Third Party Software Pricing Message-ID: <7269@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 4 Dec 89 05:44:02 GMT References: <21354@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1989Dec4.015422.21768@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: rick@hanauma.UUCP (Richard Ottolini) Distribution: usa Organization: Stanford University, Dept. of Geophysics Lines: 9 In article <1989Dec4.015422.21768@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: >So, when Cray PC is coming out? > 5 years if trends continue. High end workstations-- DEC 3100, SPARC 370, 486/487-- sustain 4-5 MFLOPS = 0.1 CRAY-1S. PCs have increased by factor of 10 eabout every five years. The 80960 and newest 70-MIP HP chip are almost CRAY-1S, but it will be a while before there are decent compilers. >Izumi Ohzawa >izumi@violet.berkeley.edu >