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Article #23559Re: FALCON is DEAD!
From: Mark Hagger
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:51
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:51
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>Listen, pal, I know exactly what's going on at IBM. The pc business is [deletions] >However, IBM has realized that the mainframe market >is dwindling and [deleted] Curious one that, maybe someone should tell Cray Research and the numerous other mainframe manufacturers plus the dozens of big firms who regularly solve massive problems on mainframes that this is happening so that they can go solve their problems on micros. >Anyway, what does this have to do with Atari? Absolutely nothing. Atari have recently announced the launching of the Atari MF, this will apparently be a multi processor mainframe system capable of nearly 15 GFlops and will retail at around 15 million US dollars. An unconfirmed report suggests the machine is in fact a large box with 4000 Atari ST's in it, this was denied by a spokesman, but he did mention that attempts to open the 'box' would result in all the contents melting down into a pile of plastic and silicon. Mark
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!gdt!mapmh From: mapmh@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Mark Hagger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: FALCON is DEAD! Message-ID: <C1IE6F.31C@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk> Date: 27 Jan 93 10:51:51 GMT References: <C16F72.HK7@ecf.toronto.edu> <9301229781@ritz.mordor.com> Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK Lines: 20