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From: badbri
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:00

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Jester wrote:

> Chris Leung (Grge...@silcon.com) wrote:
> : Isn't the fastest computer right now the Omega Red.. the Pentagon
> has it.
> : Consisting of 2 terrabytes of storage and LOTs of PPros...?
>
> According to PC Magazine (and on campus rumour), Prof. John MacDonald
> here at RPI was given a $1 million grant from the DoD to build a
> supercomputer
> based off of his fast RISC design (supposedly able to reach 16Ghz on
> each
> chip).  They said that this would smoke the parallel PPro machines by
> many
> hundreds oftimes over.

Definately a UNIX machine.

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