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From: biagioni@mckinley.cs.unc.edu (Edoardo Biagioni)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray-3 ?
Message-ID: <1840@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 88 18:07:25 GMT
References: <242@litp.UUCP> <417@ole.UUCP>
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In article <417@ole.UUCP> upton@ole.UUCP (Mike Upton) writes:
>Clock		500MHz
means a 2 ns clock.

>Size		32" octagon
>		34" high

Since light takes 1 ns to travel 12", they must have lots of fun
distributing the clock....

On the other hand, maybe only the CPU is clocked at that speed, and
it might be much smaller than 32".

Ed Biagioni	biagioni@cs.unc.edu 		Department of Computer Science
		seismo!mcnc!unc!biagioni	Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514, USA