petel@tekig.UUCP (05/01/84)
[12345670] Date: April, 26, 1984. NASA PLACES FIRST ORDER FOR CRAY-2 [LLL where are you ? pl] MINNEAPOLIS, April 26 -- Cray Research, Inc. announced today that it has received an order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to lease computer systems valued at approximately $27 million, including the company's new CRAY-2 product. The CRAY-2 will be installed by the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation (NAS) Program at the NASA-Ames Research Center in the third quarter of 1985.... ....NASA's CRAY-2 will have 64 million words [not bytes, pl] of MOS memory. ....Developed under the direction of Seymore Cray, the company's founder, the CRAY-2 is a four-processor system..... [NOW FOR THE BEST PART ????] ....The CRAY-2 employs a UNIX-based operating system, a departure from the operating system used in the company's current products.... ....It is expected to offer performance six to 12 times greater than the CRAY-1... ....so on and so on.... Pete Lancashire ...tektronix!tekig!petel (503) 627-2566