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From: jov@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (JONES J P)
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Subject: Re: Help on hardware purchase requested
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Date: 18 Oct 90 11:51:26 GMT
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In <10976@hubcap.clemson.edu> mike@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au (Mike Alder) writes:

>We are looking for a commercially available parallel processing
>system...in the region of Oz$200,000...expandable as the money rolls in...

Recently got a flyer from Computer Systems Architects, 950 N. University
Ave., Provo, Utah with lots of attractive-looking quotes on Transputer
products. For example, 25 Mhz T805 w/ 1Mbyte @ US$1138 ea. So 64 of these
things (4 each on 16 boards in a 21 slot VME crate) are $73K, right? Add
a front-end & software & some other stuff and you have a pretty nifty
system for about 100K. Money rolls in...add another crate-full.

(a) Does this seem sensible to you? (What am I missing here?)

(b) Does anyone have any direct experience with these systems? (Lotsa gotchas?)

Judd Jones -- jonesjp@ornl.gov