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- From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
- Subject: Re: What are people paying for when they by a supercomputer?
- In-Reply-To: borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu's message of 17 Nov 92 15:18:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.201147.5302@athena.mit.edu> <46021@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
- Date: 17 Nov 92 10:45:03
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- What a silly question.
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- Blinking lights. Lots and lots of blinking lights. well, if one
- buys a massively parallel supercomputer, one gets blinking lights.
- From what I've seen of the C90, it doesn't have nearly enough lights.
- At least it looks like a ST:TNG prop, I guess that's better than
- nothing...
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- Founder, Society to Bring Back Lots of Blinking Lights
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