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Subject: Gould NP1
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Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 18:38:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 18:38:13 1987
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Regarding my earlier posting .....

      >The NP1 is an ECL, gate-array processor sitting on a very
      >fast bus (154 megabytes per second). With 2 cpu's on the
      >same bus, coupled with a math accelerator unit, it does 12

       --------------------CORRECTION, should have said 12 MIPS

      >per processor, so 2 cpu configuration yields 24 MIPS------
      >MIPS sustained at a base price of about $400,000. With a

      ------ that's about $17,000 per MIP -----------------------

      >multiple, coupled bus option, 8 cpu's can co-exist for close
      >to 100 MIPS, addressing 2 gigabytes of 54 nanosec memory.

	I do appreciate the comments I have gotten so far on this posting.
       I didn't meant to leave out anything about the other super-mini's,
       to the contrary, I wanted to get some discussion started. Let's
       anyone who can put some info out about Pyramid; Alliant; HP's new
       model 930; etc.

   Tom Helton			Support Group
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