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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
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Subject: Re: Apple class machine of the 90's
Keywords: multiprocessor ||
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Date: 27 Dec 89 18:48:50 GMT
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In article <1989Dec27.172152.1755@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> olson@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson) writes:
>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
>Bob Olson			University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
>Internet: olson@cs.uiuc.edu	UUCP: {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!olson



Has anybody heard anything about the ATW?  I don't know much,
but i know it uses the T-800 and uses a 68000 for I/O... has
dedicated video RAM.( I think 32 bit video)
runs at 10mips with a single T-800..
can hold 64 T-800's.. runs HELIOS parallel processing OS ...

Comes with C-Shell and UNIX command set.. i think....
I think the base price with an 80MB drive and 4Mb RAM is 
around $7,500.  The system is designed for multiprocessing...
I'd like to know more about it .. if anyone in this group is
conversant with the product.

Thanks

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu

BTW:  i brought this into this group having just read 
      125 articles about "APPLE"...