Re: Formulab Neuronetics

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From: Raj Thomas
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00

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Someone who claimed to be Jack <jakr@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>I read today that some Australian company has come up with a new
>computer (MSP) architecture and programming "language" - the article
>was touting this as an "intel/every-programming-language-extant-today"
>killer.  
>Has anyone heard of the company (Formulab Neuronetics) or of their
>machine ?

The Australian Financial Review had a couple of very sceptical
articles about them last week.

Neuronetics initially claimed that it would bring to market
"supercomputers for under 500,000 $ ". They are now selling something
that sounds suspiciously like a Pentium with a neural network card for
around 6000$.

According to the article, it is run by a " psychologist who knows
nothing about computers but has designed the architecture of the
computer".

Smells like premium, piscine snake-oil to me...
The market must think so too, since their stock prices have plunged
recently...

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From: raj@gco.apana.org.au (Raj Thomas)
Subject: Re: Formulab Neuronetics
Date: 1996/12/13
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