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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: A new PC from Cray?
Message-ID: <196@octopus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 05:34:44 EST
Article-I.D.: octopus.196
Posted: Fri Feb 21 05:34:44 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 06:30:54 EST
Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino, CA
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A copy of an internal memo... a proposed Press Release for March 3, 1986:

Long considered a holdout in the PC compatibility ratrace, Cray has finally
joined the pack: The firm has announced its SuperPC I, an MS-DOS portable
that packs many of the features of the reknowned Cray supercomputers.

This computer, however, is not for all: It's exteremely fast -- using GaAs
ICs, tunnel diodes, and Josephson-junction circuits, it has a clock rate
of 2.2 GHz. It costs $4,000,000.00 (US).  For many PC users, however, the
cost might be justified.  For a Lotus 1-2-3 application that takes 2.3
seconds for recalculation on an AT, for example, the Cray requires
only 7.1 nano-seconds.  This time savings, of course, allows the operator
to devote 2.3 seconds (otherwise wasted) to useful pursuits.

The Cray's performance is even more dramatic in other applications. For
programs smaller than 1-2-3, according to the company, the Cray can perform
its operation even before the diskette is inserted.  Such power, alas, does
not come without a penalty. Although about the size of a Compaq portable
PC, the Cray portable requires a tractor-trailer support truck for the
liquid helium, the 1 MWatt power generator, and the fire extinguisher; all
are required for normal operation.

(Plagiarized from an internal memo distributed at an IBM subsidiary).
(YES... this is :-) of course!)

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