ttl@aura.cs.wisc.edu (Tony Laundrie) (04/23/91)
A friend at a reputable supercomputer company sent me a copy of a MEMO he received: *************************** MEETING NOTICE *************************** The ETA10q (piper) has arrived in our fair city! S/N 17 was a single cpu system running at 19 ns with 4 MW of main memory, 16 MW of shared memory, and 0.5 MW of communication buffer memory. It was first shipped with an EOS operating system to a Canadian company. Since its return to the United States, it has been sold to a former ETA employee and upgraded into a beer cooler, containing a Miller Tapper. To honor its past performance, and celebrate progress in computer technology over the past two years, join us in jubilation! The time: WEDNESDAY, April 17, 1991. Starting at 6:00 pm. The reason: The end of tax time and of ETA Systems, Inc. The tapper: ETA10q Supercomputer (Miller compatible) The task: Determine what a supercomputer is really good for. (Does anyone really spend that kind of money just to model molecules?) *************************** MEETING NOTICE ***************************