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From: sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: IBM buys 50 000 transputers !?!?!?
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Date: 25 Feb 89 03:45:20 GMT
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From article <8902241626.AA10841@uk.ac.ox.prg>, 
by PVR%bgerug51.earn@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK 
(Patrick Van Renterghem / Transputer Lab):

> I read in a Belgian magazine that IBM has ordered 
> 50000 transputers from Inmos
> in november for an internal supercomputing project. 
> How much of this is true ?

  IBM does have a supercomputing project which is headed
by Dr. Chen (formerly of Cray). In a TIME magazine article,
he is quoted to be aiming for a 256 processor machine which
would be capable of 1 billion operations per second.

			Sean Brunnock