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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Apple class machine of the 90's
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Date: 23 Dec 89 15:52:19 GMT
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/ comp.sys.next / rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell) / Dec 23, 1989 /
> * Base machine would have at least two processors, running in parallel.
> Shouldn't be that expensive; the Jan. issue of Discover has an article
> on computing in 1989.  In the article it states that Thinking Machines
> of Cambridge, MA released in 1989 a system known as the CM-2a, with
> 4,000 processors.  The price on this baby is about half a million bucks.
> If my calculations are correct, that works out to $125 per processor.

Uhm, Connection Machines use 1-bit processors.  I don't think I'd want just
two of these things in my computer-of-the-90's :-)

Jacob
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