ruth@utstat.UUCP (09/22/87)
Ted White, a marketing type person from Encore, will be in Toronto on October 19th and 20th. Encore is trying to break into the Canadian market (well, they have; we just ordered an Annex terminal server). He is interested in talking to people about both the Annex terminal server and about Encore's parallel processing computer, the multimax. Tentative plans call for Mr. White to install our terminal server on the morning of the 19th. This will allow him to demonstrate how easy it is to install, and its wonderful capabilities. In the afternoon he is interested in giving a presentation on the multimax. If interested people would like to send me e-mail, I will try to keep people posted as to times, dates and locations. Please let me know which of the two products you are interested in, and some indication of how serious you are (so I'll know if I'm in trouble over room allocations). According to Mr. White: The multimax is a multiprocessor with shared memory, doing parallel processing. The computer is easily expandable and takes from 2 to 20 processors (they come 2 to a board). Its operating system is Unix based. It has 128Mb main memory. Price range is $100,000 up (he gave me a top price of $700,000). Prices are $ US. He claims 1 1/2 to 40 mips, depending on the number of processors.