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From: chouw@galaxy.cps.msu.edu (Wen Hwa Chou)
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Subject: Re: Next, 40, Sparc, 2
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Date: 15 Nov 90 17:36:40 GMT
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In article <325@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>NeXT's answer to 28 MIPS is $4995.  You can buy three NeXTstations for
>what it costs to buy one SPARC 2.  That's a total of 45 MIPS across
>three processors, and besides, you get 315 megs of disk space, three
>monitors, six serial ports, 24 megs of RAM, and (hopefully) the Godzilla
>example App from NeXT which lets you compute one problem on all three
>machines :-)
>
NeXT's answer to Cray Y-MP is $4995.  You can buy 1000 NeXTstations for
what it costs to buy one Y-MP.  That's a total of 15,000 MIPS across
one thousand processors, and besides, you get 105 gigs of disk space, 1,000
monitors, 2000 serial ports, 8 gigs of RAM, and (hopefully) the Godzilla
example App from NeXT which lets you compute one problem on all 
ne thousand machines :-) 8-D

-- Wen