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From: shs@uts.amdahl.com (Steve Schoettler)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DARPA supercomputer
Message-ID: <16atw3aue.1010tlh=Q@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 7 Apr 89 17:05:56 GMT
References: <9951@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <6504@cbmvax.UUCP> <16715@cup.portal.com> <149@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM> <813@mtxinu.UUCP>
Reply-To: shs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Steve Schoettler)
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In article <813@mtxinu.UUCP> shore@mtxinu.COM writes:
>In article <149@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM> rsb@bashful.ACA.MCC.COM (Richard S. Brice) writes:
>|In a recent flyer advertising (using exerpts) a publication called
>|"Advanced Military Computing", a darpa director named Raymond Colladay is
>|quoted as claiming that DARPA plans to have a billion operation per second
>|supercomputer packaged in 10 cubic inches by next year.  
>
>But it's going to weigh 7 tons.

Must be hardware compression! :-)

>-- 
>Melinda Shore                                     shore@mtxinu.com
>Mt Xinu                                  ..!uunet!mtxinu.com!shore


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