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From: ross@dsd.UUCP (Evan Ross)
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Subject: Re: Re: Caltech's Cosmic Cube
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 15:03:35 EST
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As a matter of fact, Intel has announced the iPSC family of parallel
computers which seem to be a commercial version of the Comsic Cube.
Each node has 80286/80287, 512k Ram, 7 Point to point comm channels,
one global comm channel, and an 82586 LAN coprocessor to handle all of
the comm channels.

There are three versions iPSC-d5 with 32 nodes @$150k, iPSC-d6 with
64 nodes @$275k, and the iPSC-d7 with 128 nodes @$520k.  'Shipments are 
expected to begin by late May'.

Consult the February 11 issue of the E.E. Times for further details
(propaganda, vaporware, wishful thinking...)

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			Evan Ross   decwrl!amd!fortune!dsd!ross

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