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      Just received a brochure from Mercury Computer Systems (Lowell
MA) for their MC3200NU-8 attached processor board.  This is a two-board
sandwich with, supposedly, 20 MFLOPS, 10 MIPS of compute power.  Under
what conditions this is achieved is not clear.  Nor is it clear what
processor it uses.  The brochure doesn't give the list price, which
turns out to be $15,960.  But they're offering me 40% off until the
end of September.

      This isn't a way to make a Mac go faster; this is a separate
computer that lives in a slot and is separately programmed inC or
FORTRAN.  You can put up to 5 of them in a Mac II.  So, in theory,
you could have a 100 MFLOP Mac for $79,800 plus the price of a
Mac II.  And maybe you can qualify for the 40% discount.

      A marvelous concept, but on the high side.  Still, what a
graphics ngine you could build...

					John Nagle