RE Paracom coup

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2 total messages Started by "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" Mon, 10 Dec 1990 14:05

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Author: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker"
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 14:05

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>From Computer Graphics World, 12/90, p. 16: Paracom has been awarded a 
$1.8 million contract to supply 10 Transputer supercomputers to the Naval
Research Lab.  The comment does make not make it clear whether those
are supercomputers each with 10 transputers or there are 10 supercomputers
each with at least 1 transputer.

if the Ammerican Navy has the same penchant for $2500 coffee pots as the
US army one should probably assume either of the lower bounds,
ie 2 `supercomputers' of ten transputers each (or $90,000 per tp)
or 10  `supercomputers' of one tp each (or $180,000 per tp). 
One would hope that at those prices they are getting T800's not T414's !!!!

Re: RE Paracom coup

#1177

Author: Rick 'Transputer' Stein
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 15:31

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In article <10613.9012101404@prg.oxford.ac.uk> HALLAM@physics.oxford.ac.uk ("Phillip M. Hallam-Baker") writes:
>
>if the Ammerican Navy has the same penchant for $2500 coffee pots as the
>US army one should probably assume either of the lower bounds,
>ie 2 `supercomputers' of ten transputers each (or $90,000 per tp)
>or 10  `supercomputers' of one tp each (or $180,000 per tp). 
>One would hope that at those prices they are getting T800's not T414's !!!!

If I recall correctly, the Navy's RFP covered a helluva' of a lotta software
too!  So the iron is the smallest part of the pie, probably %25 or so.
-- 
Richard M. Stein (aka, Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Sole proprietor of Rick's Software Toxic Waste Dump and Kitty Litter Co.
"You build 'em, we bury 'em." uucp: ...{spsd, zardoz, felix}!dhw68k!stein

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