nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) (08/27/89)
Just received a brochure from Mercury Computer Systems (Lowell MA) for their MC3200NU-8 attached processor board. This is a two-board sandwich with, supposedly, 20 MFLOPS, 10 MIPS of compute power. Under what conditions this is achieved is not clear. Nor is it clear what processor it uses. The brochure doesn't give the list price, which turns out to be $15,960. But they're offering me 40% off until the end of September. This isn't a way to make a Mac go faster; this is a separate computer that lives in a slot and is separately programmed inC or FORTRAN. You can put up to 5 of them in a Mac II. So, in theory, you could have a 100 MFLOP Mac for $79,800 plus the price of a Mac II. And maybe you can qualify for the 40% discount. A marvelous concept, but on the high side. Still, what a graphics ngine you could build... John Nagle