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From: xxrich%alliant1@uunet.UU.NET (Rich Rinehart)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Any more hyp. users out there?!
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Date: 1 Aug 90 15:17:01 GMT
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> In article <2240@vela.acs.oakland.edu> arhegde@vela.acs.oakland.edu (anupama hegde) writes:
> >
> > 
> > I have looked up this newsgroup several times with the hope of finding 
> >something interesting but it appears even hypercube cronies seem to prefer 
> >[stuff deleted]
> 
> I too have been watching this group.  We're due to get 2 8 node iPSC/2's in
> a month or two.  Is anybody out there?? ?
> -rich
> 
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The answer is no. The history is this. In 1986, I called for votes to 
comp.hypercube. It passed and I was made the moderator. In February or so,
there was a readership who wanted another group for general parallel, one
for hypercubes, one for CM's, ad nauseam.

We submitted the whole thing to a vote, one of the alternatives being
what is now comp.parallel.  It was, obviously, the comp.parallel proposal
which won out. Now, if I as moderator, try to post to comp.hypercube, it is
rejected. Don't know what happens if you try to post to comp.hypercube.

For the iPSC users, there is an mailing list run by Dave Fielding out
of Cornell. His old address is fielding@tcgould.cornell.edu. As far as
I know, there is not an equivalent NCube group. Perhaps someone from
NCube can enlighten us. There are several regular listeners/contributors
from Thinking Machines.

The policy has been that as long as it it not too blatent a commercial,
hardware and software announcements are posted to the net. This allows
us to keep up with the comings and goings. Demises get talked about through
normal gossip :-).

Any comments sent by follow-up will get to me.

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Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell