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From: csg@pyramid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: new Gould NPL
Message-ID: <1805@pyramid.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 17:10:32 EST
Article-I.D.: pyramid.1805
Posted: Tue Mar 31 17:10:32 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Apr-87 04:17:43 EST
References: <501@sw1e.UUCP>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: gould supermini

In article <501@sw1e.UUCP> uusgth@sw1e.UUCP (uusgth) writes:
>The NP1 is the first of a new architecture from Gould, called the NPL series,
>that brings ultra-high performance to minicomputers at price performance
>factors well below the current industry.
>
>The NP1 is an ECL, gate-array processor sitting on a very fast bus (154 mega-
>bytes per second). With 2 cpu's on the same bus, coupled with a math accelera-
>tor unit, it does 12 MIPS sustained at a base price of about $400,000.

Ummm, I'm sure that Arete, Encore, Pyramid, and Sequent would be happy to tell
you about 12 MIPS superminicomputers with fast busses that sell for a lot less
than $400K for a fully configured system. Elxsi and Convex too, I think.

I can't believe this posting does these machines justice. Could someone post
some technical info?

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