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From: ttl@aura.cs.wisc.edu (Tony Laundrie)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: The return of the ETA
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.180554.24433@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 18:05:54 GMT
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A friend at a reputable supercomputer company sent me a copy of a MEMO
he received:

*************************** MEETING NOTICE ***************************

The ETA10q (piper) has arrived in our fair city!  S/N 17 was a single cpu
system running at 19 ns with 4 MW of main memory, 16 MW of shared memory,
and 0.5 MW of communication buffer memory.  It was first shipped with an
EOS operating system to a Canadian company.  Since its return to the United
States, it has been sold to a former ETA employee and upgraded into a beer
cooler, containing a Miller Tapper.  To honor its past performance, and
celebrate progress in computer technology over the past two years, join us
in jubilation!

The time:    WEDNESDAY, April 17, 1991.  Starting at 6:00 pm.
The reason:  The end of tax time and of ETA Systems, Inc.
The tapper:  ETA10q Supercomputer (Miller compatible)
The task:    Determine what a supercomputer is really good for. (Does anyone 
	     really spend that kind of money just to model molecules?)

*************************** MEETING NOTICE ***************************