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From: warren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: NCR 3600
Keywords: parallel computing, new product announcement
Message-ID: <1991May23.180222.9483@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 16:14:35 GMT
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>>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.

Gee, Sequent has been doing this for the last few years with the 80386.
It's a real screamer for the price. Probably one of the best transaction
processing engines on the market ... certainly for the price. Uses either
a BSD variant OS (Dynix) or a new System V variant (PTX). The new model
will use 80486 CPUs. Now if I could just run an MS-DOS session on each
Node ...


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Warren Harrison                                          warren@cs.pdx.edu
Center for Software Quality Research                          503/725-3108
Portland State University/CMPS   

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