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  2. From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
  4. Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.174414.12427@craycos.com>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 17:44:14 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com>
  8. Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
  9. Lines: 10
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Nov16.141214.7632@walter.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com writes:
  12. >if you know how to build a 1GFLOP machine for $10,000
  13. >(much less sell it for that much), then you should do
  14. >so immediately and become immensely wealthy.
  15. >
  16. >i don't know where you got this $10K number, but boy,
  17. >are you confused.
  18.  
  19. Actually, even the $250,000/GFLOP number sounds a bit low to me; $2M/GFLOP
  20. is closer to the current going rate.
  21.