dsm@uunet.uu.net (David Scott Mead) (12/06/89)
TO ALL USERS OF SKY COMPUTER PRODUCTS, USERS OF VECTOR PROCESSING PRODUCTS, OR ALL OTHERS HAVING HELPFUL KNOWLEDGE: Our firm is considering purchasing and installing a SKYbolt Application Accelerator for Sun Workstations to be installed in a Sun 4/110 running SUNOS 4.0.3. The accelerator is a vector processing board which is produced by SKY Computers, Inc. We are interested in learning of other users' experiences with this product (and other such products) and the software that accompanies it: SKYVEC C Compiler Assembler and Linker Symbolic Debugger Math Libraries sim860 simulator adb860 debugger gdb860 debugger In particular, the products we will purchase are: Model #8124-S SKYbolt Application Accelerator BCTCB-X C-Compiler BATNB-X SKYbolt Drivers BTTNB-X SKYbolt Linker, Assembler, Debugger, Simulator We would like to know the positive and negative experiences of other users, criteria for evaluating the performance of such products, and how well the products have performed for other users, especially in comparison with the manufacturer's claims. Thank you very much for your time. David S. Mead Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. uunet!gcm!dsm OR dsm@gcm!uunet.uu.net