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- From: mapmh@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Mark Hagger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: FALCON is DEAD!
- Message-ID: <C1IE6F.31C@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:51:51 GMT
- References: <C16F72.HK7@ecf.toronto.edu> <9301229781@ritz.mordor.com>
- Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK
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- >Listen, pal, I know exactly what's going on at IBM. The pc business is
- [deletions]
- >However, IBM has realized that the mainframe market
- >is dwindling and
- [deleted]
- Curious one that, maybe someone should tell Cray Research and the
- numerous other mainframe manufacturers plus the dozens of big
- firms who regularly solve massive problems on mainframes that this is
- happening so that they can go solve their problems on micros.
-
- >Anyway, what does this have to do with Atari? Absolutely nothing.
- Atari have recently announced the launching of the Atari MF, this will
- apparently be a multi processor mainframe system capable of nearly 15
- GFlops and will retail at around 15 million US dollars. An
- unconfirmed report suggests the machine is in fact a large box with
- 4000 Atari ST's in it, this was denied by a spokesman, but he did
- mention that attempts to open the 'box' would result in all the
- contents melting down into a pile of plastic and silicon.
-
- Mark
-