wave@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Johnson) (11/20/90)
In article <KHB.90Nov19181649@loglady.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@loglady.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgoup) writes: >> >>In article <1990Nov19.173120.1@lucy.claremont.edu> jack@lucy.claremont.edu writes: >> They're basically coming up to parity with the DECStation >> 5000 now. And we're in the middle of our next generation of >> product development. >> ---Charlie Giorgetti, marketing manager, DEC >> >>And how many DS5000 have shipped ? It is easy to announce machines, it >>is harder to build and ship them. I'd guess that by March (if not >>sooner) the number of 40mhz SPARC boxes will be at least 2x the number >>of 33mhz DS5000's. Well, I just set up my DecStation 5000 this morning. I'm sure the SparcStation 2s are on their way, but hey - the DECstation is here right now, and it sure is fast for a <20K box. But hey, I like everybody's machines. NeXT, SUN, DEC, whatever... I've got no real preferences. As far as clock speeds et.al., just to toss another number in the pile: the fastest machine in the world (obviously for certain tasks, but I've gotten < 1 gigaflop sustained, and seen 9 Gflops sustained for 9 hours) the Connection Machine-2 System by Thinking Machines, has a clock speed of 7Mhz. Course, their are 2048 little Weiteks buzzing away in there... How does this relate to the NeXT? Well, the black cube design of the NeXT was directly inspired by the design of the CM. It's a fact... -- --> Michael B. Johnson --> MIT Media Lab -- Computer Graphics & Animation Group --> (617) 253-0663 -- wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu