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Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 02:04:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 02:04:51 1987
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Reply-To: gbs@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Gideon Sheps)
Organization: University of Toronto
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Keywords: Cray, expensive, very expensive, very very ...
Summary: You couldn't afford one.

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>> Lessee - a Cray costs (how the heck do _I_know what a Cray costs?) say 2
>> megabucks. So I could buy (2e6/2e3)=1e3=1000 Amigas (does $2000 for an Amiga
>> sound reasonable - especially if I'm buying a thousand of 'em?) So then the
>> 14400 hours becomes 14.4 hours. Not bad, maybe?
>> 

Well....
 This fine institution picked on up cheap last year from NASA-Ames for a
 mere $14 Million ( in funny coloured Cdn money ) They say our model goes
 for about $30M brand new.  (X-MP/22)

 Oh, and did I mention the annual maintenance contract at $2M/yr ?

 Not cheap, but it does make nice pictures.

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