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From: g_ahrendt@vaxa.uwa.oz (Gunter Ahrendt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: 3090's
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.205230.1867@vaxa.uwa.oz>
Date: 5 Jun 90 12:52:30 GMT
Organization: University of Western Australia
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>As for 3090's being supercomputers...Don't bet on it!!
>We have a 3090-400 running in our shop, and some recent rumors have us inter-
>ested in another manufacturer's machine (a plug compatable) that's supposed
>to be TWICE as fast. 
>An IBM 3090-400 runs about 50 MIPS (That's strictly a guess!!)
>I won't name names because it's all in the rumor stage right now.

Is this a 400E, thats about 63mips, and your plug compatible? An Amdahl 
5990/1400 rated at 126mips? Blah these are certainly not supers, sure the VF's 
are quite fast but still by no means supers.