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- From: gwilson@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Gregory Vance Wilson)
- Subject: Re: economics meets technology: was SSI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.192425.3109@cs.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
- References: <605@cfdd40.boeing.com> <C1Kswu.FC2@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan28.183704.24937@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:24:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.183704.24937@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >More than one poster noted:
- >>a machine on the floor
- >
- >I have always wondered where the thresholds of success are.
- >More than one company actually delivered 1-2 machines in the field.
- >A few companies made tens of deliveries, and even Alliant delivered
- >500 machines or so during its time. Some still living vendors have yet to
- >break 100 machines while others have over 1000 delivered.
-
- A couple of years ago, I helped edit a survey of parallel computing
- manufacturers. The record since then has been pretty sobering:
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- Alliant: deceased
- BBN: withdrew from the fray
- AMT: deceased (but resurrected)
- Caplin: ???
- CCC: still in business (but had their machine rejected)
- Cogent: deceased (I think)
- Concurrent: ???
- Convex: still in business
- CRI: still in business
- DEC: don't really know what to say...
- Encore: still in business
- FPS: deceased
- Fujitsu: still in business (that's an understatement)
- IBM: still in business (another understatement)
- Intel: still in business
- MasPar: still in business
- Meiko: still in business
- Ncube: still in business
- Parsys: still in business
- Parsytec: still in business
- Sequent: still in business
- SGI: still in business
- SSI: recently deceased
- Stardent: deceased
- Teradata: taken over
- TMC: still in business
-
- And this ignores BiiN, ETA, Multiflow, Myrias, and Symult, who were dead by
- the time the book came out, and doesn't include KSR or Tera, who hadn't
- released products (and in KSR's case, wouldn't even talk to us) when we were
- compiling material.
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- Dept. of Computing and Information Science || in the early days
- University of Oregon || of a better nation.
- gwilson@cs.uoregon.edu || - Alasdair Gray
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