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From: stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: RE Paracom coup
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.153138.5571@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:31:38 GMT
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In article <10613.9012101404@prg.oxford.ac.uk> HALLAM@physics.oxford.ac.uk ("Phillip M. Hallam-Baker") writes:
>
>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 !!!!

If I recall correctly, the Navy's RFP covered a helluva' of a lotta software
too!  So the iron is the smallest part of the pie, probably %25 or so.
-- 
Richard M. Stein (aka, Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Sole proprietor of Rick's Software Toxic Waste Dump and Kitty Litter Co.
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