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From: lair@midway.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: NCR 3600
Keywords: parallel computing, new product announcement
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Date: 18 May 91 00:16:41 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.
>


Well, according to the Chicago Tribune (the best I can do, sorry) it uses,
get this, multiple i486's running in parallel.  I'm not really a hardware type,
but is this as crazy as it seems?  An Intel based mainframe?  Ouch.



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