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Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?

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From: James Davies
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:44
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In article <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com writes:
>if you know how to build a 1GFLOP machine for $10,000
>(much less sell it for that much), then you should do
>so immediately and become immensely wealthy.
>
>i don't know where you got this $10K number, but boy,
>are you confused.

Actually, even the $250,000/GFLOP number sounds a bit low to me; $2M/GFLOP
is closer to the current going rate.
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From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com>
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:44:14 GMT
References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com>
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