Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!amdahl!sbf10 From: sbf10@uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: What ever happened to the E&S Supercomputer? Keywords: vanished Message-ID: Date: 7 May 90 18:19:35 GMT References: <40744@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: sbf10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 27 In article <40744@apple.Apple.COM> jp@Apple.COM (John Peterson) writes: >While we're on the subject of supercomputer companies going under, >does anybody know what happened to the Evans and Sutherland project? >I recall seeing a couple tiny articles in trade rags "announcing" it, >but nothing substantial. One rumor indicated that after several years >and millions of dollars, they couldn't even get a working prototype. > >Anybody know the real story? > >Thanks, >jp I don't know the whole or the real story but I do know that BYU has an ES1 working in their Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. It was described to me as a good 'beta' machine with lots of spare parts. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam Fuller / Amdahl System Performance Architecture I speak for myself, from the brown hills of San Jose. UUCP: {ames,decwrl,uunet}!amdahl!sbf10 | USPS: 1250 E. Arques Ave (M/S 139) INTERNET: sbf10@amdahl.com | P.O. Box 3470 PHONE: (408) 746-8927 | Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------