stiles@MULTI.EE.USU.EDU (G. S. Stiles) (12/08/90)
>From Computer Graphics World, 12/90, p. 16: Paracom has been awarded a
$1.8 million contract to supply 10 Transputer supercomputers to the Naval
Research Lab. The comment does make not make it clear whether those
are supercomputers each with 10 transputers or there are 10 supercomputers
each with at least 1 transputer.davis@COWBOY.NRL.NAVY.MIL (Jennifer Davis) (12/11/90)
>if the Ammerican Navy has the same penchant for $2500 coffee pots as
the
US army one should probably assume either of the lower bounds,
ie 2 `supercomputers' of ten transputers each (or $90,000 per tp)
or 10 `supercomputers' of one tp each (or $180,000 per tp).
One would hope that at those prices they are getting T800's not T414's !!!!
As a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, I would like to state that we
do not have penchants for $2500 coffeepots, $200,000 screwdrivers or
other extravagances. We buy our transputers at the same prices as
everyone else.
Jennifer Davis
davis@radar.nrl.navy.mil