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From: HALLAM@physics.oxford.ac.uk ("Phillip M. Hallam-Baker")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: RE Paracom coup
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Date: 10 Dec 90 14:05:00 GMT
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>From Computer Graphics World, 12/90, p. 16: Paracom has been awarded a 
$1.8 million contract to supply 10 Transputer supercomputers to the Naval
Research Lab.  The comment does make not make it clear whether those
are supercomputers each with 10 transputers or there are 10 supercomputers
each with at least 1 transputer.

if the Ammerican Navy has the same penchant for $2500 coffee pots as the
US army one should probably assume either of the lower bounds,
ie 2 `supercomputers' of ten transputers each (or $90,000 per tp)
or 10  `supercomputers' of one tp each (or $180,000 per tp). 
One would hope that at those prices they are getting T800's not T414's !!!!