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From: joemu@nsc-pdc.UUCP (Joe Mueller)
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Subject: Re: UNIX SV reaches high places!
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 13:51:36 EDT
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[eat me]

I saw a demo of the CRAYII while I was in Minneapolis. The computer itself is
fairly small (about 3-4 feet tall and about 3 feet wide). It is cylindrical
in shape (similar to the CRAYI) but without the padded "seat" around it.
I don't remember a whole lot about it but here's what I remember:
	1. it was a giga-flop machine
	2. it was running System V (boy did those ps's run fast!)
	3. the flourocarbon used was the same stuff doctors use for synthetic
	   blood
	4. I believe they said it had a 4-5 nanosecond clock rate and because
	   of it they have to have all internal wires shorter than 9 inches
	5. I sucks down 190 killowats of power
	6. They consider their "C" compiler slow, they are working on
	   increasing it's performance (I think they said it "only" compiled
	   100k to 150k lines of code per minute) [I could live with that]