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Re: <no subject>

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From: mer... Jason Carreiro
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <33a24f35...@data-io.com>, BillG@Microslut.cum (Thanatos Prime) wrote:
>On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 18:53:21 GMT, unso...@rangersoft.com (Unknown
>Soldier) wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:22:03 -0700, Levi Cochran
>><levi.c...@Ebay.sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I read about this computer in the paper.
>>>Isn't the first computer to do a trillion calculations a sec.
>>>I think it had 200+ PPros in parallel.
>>>
>>>All of this could have actually been a dream I had, but I think it's
>>>pretty close to being correct.
>>
>>I thought the TV show I saw said thousands of processors.  Anybody
>>know what the real number is so we can stop guessing?  =)
>>
>>Matt
>>
>>
>9,200 :)

I read about it, IBM is building some teraHz machine for DOE to model nuclear 
weapons decay in the stockpiles. but i dont remember hearing that it had 
anything to do with pentium pros... they didnt mention the cpu at all in the 
paper.
-J
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From: mer...@bu.edu (Jason Carreiro)
Subject: Re: <no subject>
Date: 1997/06/18
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