crnivani@acf4.UUCP (Carlo Cernivani) (06/12/85)
Is there any truth to the rumor that Denelcor has asked Stanford Univ.
to perform an evaluation on their top-of-the-line HEP-2 machine??? If so,
does anyone know how it has faired, or how it's fairing?
Since Denelcor's president and chief executive resigned, several major
companies have been beating a path to the company's door. I wonder if a
favorable report from SU would result in some heavy duty money being
thrown around especially since the company's stock is greatly under valued.
Anybody know if something is brewing at SU?
signed -
Almost HEP-ped @NYUmann@LaBrea.ARPA (06/14/85)
> > Is there any truth to the rumor that Denelcor has asked Stanford Univ. > to perform an evaluation on their top-of-the-line HEP-2 machine??? If so, > does anyone know how it has faired, or how it's fairing? > There is SOME truth to the rumor. The fact is that some folks here were thinking about buying a HEP -- John McCarthy's group, I believe. My advisor (David Cheriton) was asked to go along when they went out to look at the HEP and evaluate it. I believe the consensus was that the HEP was certainly fast, but not very suitable for parallel Lisp (McCarthy's interest) due to its instruction-set architecture, so I don't think we'll be getting one. --Tim
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (06/18/85)
> > Is there any truth to the rumor that Denelcor has asked Stanford Univ. > to perform an evaluation on their top-of-the-line HEP-2 machine??? If so, > does anyone know how it has faired, or how it's fairing? > As owner of one of the few HEP-1 machines, I wish they'd get around to finishing the HEP-1. The machine is utterly useless. Denelcor peddled the HEP to various universities and finally got Georgia to bite. However, the university quickly realized what a dog it was and they decided to send the machine back rather than pay or write any software for it. -Ron