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From: ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MYRIAS - yet again
Summary: Its real
Message-ID: <515@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 20:06:22 GMT
References: <13683@reed.UUCP>
Organization: The City of Calgary, Ab
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In article <13683@reed.UUCP>, mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
> Does anyone have *any* details of the architecture that they can talk about?
> Is Myrias simply a /dev/null for tax dollars (both Canadian and DARPA)
> or are there real machines with a real architecture that are being
> used for something real?


Myrias is based in Edmonton Alberta.  They are real, and have a real
(as in working) multiprocessor machine.  I believe the machine uses
68030 processors.  It seems to me that they have several US DOD
contracts.


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  Terry Ingoldsby                       ctycal!ingoldsb@calgary.UUCP
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