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Article #508Re: economics meets technology: was SSI
From: Gregory Vance Wilson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:24
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:24
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In article <1993Jan28.183704.24937@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >More than one poster noted: >>a machine on the floor > >I have always wondered where the thresholds of success are. >More than one company actually delivered 1-2 machines in the field. >A few companies made tens of deliveries, and even Alliant delivered >500 machines or so during its time. Some still living vendors have yet to >break 100 machines while others have over 1000 delivered. A couple of years ago, I helped edit a survey of parallel computing manufacturers. The record since then has been pretty sobering: Alliant: deceased BBN: withdrew from the fray AMT: deceased (but resurrected) Caplin: ??? CCC: still in business (but had their machine rejected) Cogent: deceased (I think) Concurrent: ??? Convex: still in business CRI: still in business DEC: don't really know what to say... Encore: still in business FPS: deceased Fujitsu: still in business (that's an understatement) IBM: still in business (another understatement) Intel: still in business MasPar: still in business Meiko: still in business Ncube: still in business Parsys: still in business Parsytec: still in business Sequent: still in business SGI: still in business SSI: recently deceased Stardent: deceased Teradata: taken over TMC: still in business And this ignores BiiN, ETA, Multiflow, Myrias, and Symult, who were dead by the time the book came out, and doesn't include KSR or Tera, who hadn't released products (and in KSR's case, wouldn't even talk to us) when we were compiling material. ======================================================================== Gregory V. Wilson || Work as though you lived Dept. of Computing and Information Science || in the early days University of Oregon || of a better nation. gwilson@cs.uoregon.edu || - Alasdair Gray ========================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!majestix.cs.uoregon.edu!gwilson From: gwilson@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Gregory Vance Wilson) Subject: Re: economics meets technology: was SSI Message-ID: <1993Jan28.192425.3109@cs.uoregon.edu> Sender: news@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept. References: <605@cfdd40.boeing.com> <C1Kswu.FC2@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan28.183704.24937@nas.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:24:25 GMT Lines: 52