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From: mann@LaBrea.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: How hep is the HEP
Message-ID: <120@LaBrea.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 14:57:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 14:57:48 1985
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> 
>   Is there any truth to the rumor that Denelcor has asked Stanford Univ.
> to perform an evaluation on their top-of-the-line HEP-2 machine???  If so,
> does anyone know how it has faired, or how it's fairing?
> 

There is SOME truth to the rumor.  The fact is that some folks here were
thinking about buying a HEP -- John McCarthy's group, I believe.  My advisor
(David Cheriton) was asked to go along when they went out to look at the HEP
and evaluate it.  I believe the consensus was that the HEP was certainly
fast, but not very suitable for parallel Lisp (McCarthy's interest) due to
its instruction-set architecture, so I don't think we'll be getting one.

	--Tim