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Re: Fujitsu Supercomputer Statement of Direction

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From: Daan Sandee
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:46
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In article <1992Jul28.125822.17675@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
|> Without getting rid of any facts about the computer or directions of the company
|> this should be rewritten as:
|> 
|>   After experimenting with several parallel technologies, Fujitsu has build a
|>   300 GFLOP machine with hundreds of processors.
|> 
|> The end.

Apparently the hundreds of lines of marketeers' language did its job. They
have fooled you.
Actually, they say they are *developing* such a system. They didn't say
they *have built* it yet. Scheduled for later this year, but they
don't say whether that is the 300-GFLOPS system or a smaller one.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation
Cambridge, Mass 02142                                 (617) 234-5044
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