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- BUSINESS, Page 66Business NotesCOMPUTERSMain Event: Japan vs. IBM
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- Just a few years ago, IBM dominated its Japanese rivals so
- completely that Tokyo experts quipped, "When IBM sneezes,
- Japanese computer makers are blown away." No longer. Last week
- Fujitsu, Japan's largest computer company, unveiled what it
- called the highest-performance general-purpose computer in the
- world. The timing of the announcement stole thunder from IBM,
- which the next day introduced its own new generation of
- mainframe machines. IBM touted the new computers as its most
- important roll-out in 25 years.
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- The head-to-head battle pits IBM's reputation for
- reliability against the raw number-crunching power of the
- Fujitsu machines. Fujitsu said its largest new computer can
- perform up to 600 million instructions per second, vs. an
- estimated 210 MIPS for IBM. But U.S. experts noted that
- corporations tend to be more interested in access to a wide
- range of software -- a traditional strong point of IBM systems
- -- than in high speeds.
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