ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) (11/04/90)
About 5 years ago there was a company called Vittesse (sp?). I interviewed there when the company I was working for went under (Callan Data Systems). They were making a computer that would be relatively small (fit beside your desk) and would have some significant fraction of a Cray's performance, they said. N machines could easily be hooked together for parallel work. Their architecture was secret. They would not describe it at the interview. The impression they gave was that they felt that they had made some breakthroughs in computer architecture that would let them make a high performance machine smaller and cheaper (it would sell for about $10K) than other machines. They went under a couple of years ago (at least, their computer division did. The chip division might still be going, for all I know). Now that they are gone, is there anybody out there who can talk about what they had? I didn't take the job, so I never found out, but I've been curious. Tim Smith