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From: mjt@super.ORG (Michael J. Tighe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Control Data Closes ETA Systems, Inc.
Summary: its more than just sales
Keywords: supercomputers
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Date: 20 Apr 89 20:43:16 GMT
References: <492@hydra.gatech.EDU> <16628@oberon.USC.EDU> <38856@bbn.COM>
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In article <38856@bbn.COM> slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey) writes:
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>ETA didn't know how to sell supercomputers.  It's a hard thing to do.

They didn't know how to build them either (hardware + software). Yes, it
is very hard. But there were many design flaws that should have been
corrected BEFORE they even built a prototype machine. And for software,
there was no design, just a quick port Unix from a PDP-11 and a few
utilities.
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