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From: berryman-harry@CS.YALE.EDU (Harry Berryman)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: NCR 3600
Keywords: parallel computing, new product announcement
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Date: 19 May 91 15:42:24 GMT
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In article <1991May17.123722.17801@hubcap.clemson.edu> gt4589b@prism.gatech.edu (Davis, Jr., Martin H.) writes:
>
>I read a newspaper article a couple of days ago in which was stated that
>NCR has announced a new mainframe computer using parallel processors.  The
>article did not give any specifics, so I am wondering if anybody knows
>anything more.

I saw in a NY times article that the machine is going to be 486 based, and
not specifically targeted to scientific computations. NCR was vague about the
exact target market.

Harry Scott Berryman  				(berryman@cs.yale.edu)
Yale Compuiter Science Deptartment or
ICASE/NASA Langley Research Center