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From: olson@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson)
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Subject: Re: Apple class machine of the 90's
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Date: 27 Dec 89 17:21:52 GMT
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In article <21562@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell) writes:
>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.

Yes, but if the CM-2a (which I haven't read anything about) uses the same
processors as the CM-2 (which I consider a reasonable assumption), a 
couple of these won't do you much good, as they are one-bit processors. 
(The machine does 32-bit arithmetic one bit at a time). A CM-2 processor
just isn't comparable to any of the current RISC/CISC machines.

Bob
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