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From: dyes@convex.convex.com (Tim Dyes)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: NCR 3600
Keywords: parallel computing, new product announcement
Message-ID: <1991May24.120716.24777@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 21:08:28 GMT
References: <1991May17.123722.17801@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991May20.124403.27892@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991May23.180222.9483@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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In article <1991May23.180222.9483@hubcap.clemson.edu>, warren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) 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 5/20/91 issue of EE Times describes it as a 2000 Mips Unix mainframe geared
for transaction processing.  Comprised of 288 50MHz 486DX cpus accessing up to
300Gbytes of disk arrays.  System price $1M-$8M.