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Subject: Re: ST, Verrrrry Close (Re: PCs, ATs, DOS, Intel chips etc./ Reasons for unhappiness?
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Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 14:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 13 14:04:00 1986
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Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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Summary: response to `desktop cray' comment

[If Bourne wrote another shell, would they call it the `Bourne Again' shell?]

In article <954@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.UUCP writes:
> Yes. This is the BEGINNING of an EXPONENTIAL curve. Seems you can by
> twice the machine for the price in 2-year intervals. By 1995, you
> should be able to get a Cray on your desktop, for < $2K.
> 
> I can't wait!
> 
> 	<mike

Excerpted from `Domestic and Overseas Report' by Frank D. Greco,
*Programmer's Journal*, Vol. 4 #4, July-August issue.

...[beginquote]

"CRAY-VING" FOR MORE POWER

  According to the CEO of Cray Research, Seymour Cray, the Cray 3 will
be in prototypical form sometime in 1987 and will be commercially
available in 1988.  The macine will be outfitted with 8 Gigabytes of
RAM (that is, one billion 64-bit words) and will feature 16 parallel
processing units.  And the main processing unit will be the size of
today's IBM PC.

...[endquote]

Something, I can't imagine what, tells me that they won't be selling
it for less than $2K, but it's a step in the right direction.

Larry

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Larry Baker               Net/UUCP:  mercury@ut-ngp.{ARPA, UUCP, UTEXAS.EDU}
UT Austin                            ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mercury
Computer Science          Local:     baker@walt.UTEXAS.EDU