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Subject: MassComp machines
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Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 19:31:24 EDT
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	Here are a bunch of questions about the MassComp MC-500.  Thanks
in advance for any info or help you might be able to give me.

	I have seen a few of the reported benchmarks on the network
about the MassComp MC-500.  Does anyone know what they did to make
their machine so fast?  Is this just a machine that is fast because of
a lot of hardware and thus mortals can not afford to own it?  Did they
do a "real Unix" or is this a look-alike.  Is there anything special
about their software?  Is it Sun class or a Vax class machine?  Who *are*
these guys anyway?  Are they shipping yet, i.e. can I *really* get a
machine?  Does anyone have one of these machines?  I have heard all sorts
of wonderful things from MassComp people, and from what I saw at Usenix,
the box was pretty impressive.  Is there anyone who does not work for them
that has similar wonderful (or terrible) things to say?

		-Dan Klein, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh