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From: tamir@CS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Between a Sun-4 and a Cray-2
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 02:14:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 02:14:20 1987
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I would like to find out which machines are currently
available on the market whose performance is significantly
better than a Sun-4 (>> "10 MIPS") but whose cost is
significantly lower than a Cray-2 (<= $1M).

I am *NOT* interested in multiprocessors, such as Sequent,
where the performance of each processor is less than
or equal to a Sun-4.

I am particularly (but not exclusively) interested in high performance
*integer/string* operations as opposed to vectorized floating point.

Are there any such machines available on the market ?

			   Yuval Tamir

Internet: tamir@cs.ucla.edu
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