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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: Liquid TV ?  I'm hooked!
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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1991 03:38:45 GMT

In article <1991Jun8.011614.7206@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>According to Ken Baer (I was curious about the platform and software
>myself) the MIT crew wrote their own software for a Connection
>Machine...which has a mere 64,000 processors crunching away...or more.

Don't let yourself be deceived.  That's 64K *integer* processing units.
There's only one floating point unit for every N>4 processors.  (I
think its something like one fp unit for every 8 processors.)

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