Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!uqcspe!miw
From: miw@uqcspe.OZ (Mark Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <1780@uqcspe.OZ>
Date: 30 Mar 88 10:26:37 GMT
References: <695@unm-la.UUCP> <4583@garfield.UUCP> <2134@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <3201@phri.UUCP> <1149@csun.UUCP> <20788@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: miw@uqcspe.oz (Mark Williams)
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, University of Queensland
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In article <20788@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>they're attacking these domains with marketing hype (there was some
>system they had which claimed to rival the 3090, it had a dozen 8800s
>in the room or something like that, I don't think that's what users
>think of when they read "3090".) Eventually they're going to have
>consider providing an actual product which fits the bill.
>
  Oh, I don't know.... we have a 3081 here, and it looks *exactly* like
half a dozen 8800s in a room. (and that doesn't include disk and tape drives)
	Actually, I think you mean the 8978, which is a cluster of 8 
8700 processors claimed to push about 50 MIPS. Now this doesn't mean 
your FORTRAN program will run at 50 MIPS, but then an vector processor
is only worthwhile for vectorised programs. Horses for Courses.

Mark Williams
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