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From: rwells@bbn-spca.ARPA (Robert Wells)
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Subject: Convex C-1 computer?
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 16:06:58 EST
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I'd appreciate any experience or opinions people might have about the
Convex C-1 computer.  The company is in Richardson, Texas.  The machine
costs $0.5-1.0M, runs under 4.2bsd, and has vector register hardware
instructions which are supported by their own vectorizing compiler.  It is
a 10 Mips machine, and can do up to about 40 MFlops for vector ops (i.e.,
about 1/4 of a Cray-1).

Is this a credible company and machine?  I would appreciate any comments,
opinions, rumors, speculations, contact persons, etc.  Thanks, Robert